Danielle Koenig

Musical Theatre Teaching Artist

They/Them

Danielle (Dani) Koenig (they/them) is an award-winning writer and actor with degrees from NYU Tisch’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television. Their original musicals and standalone songs have been enjoyed at major theatrical venues in New York City including Lincoln Center, Rattlestick Playwright's Theater, 54 Below, and the Duplex Theatre, as well as regionally in Los Angeles, CA, Minneapolis, MN, and Syracuse, NY.

Their original pilot, ‘Soccer Moms’, won Best Graduate Pilot at the 2022 Fusion Film Festival, was a semi-finalist for Humanitas' David and Lynn Angell Comedy Award, and was included as a second rounder at the Austin Film Festival. They have extensive improv and sketch training, having written comedy videos that have been viewed over 2 million times on Youtube, and participated in a prestigious Writer's Room Internship at Saturday Night Live. They have also acted in multiple pre-Broadway workshops as well as regional plays and musicals.

Dani Koenig has been teaching at BMS since 2021 and it is one of their favorite places to be in the whole world! When they're not teaching at BMS you might find them building LEGOs, playing board games, or writing musicals. They love playing make believe and doing Mad Libs.