Ron Daniels was born and educated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was a founder member of the Teatro Oficina, in São Paulo. He is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a former Artistic Director of the RSC's The Other Place Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon. He is also a former Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre, in Cambridge, MA. He now lives in New York. He has directed many productions of classical as well as new plays in the US, the UK, Brazil and Japan. In New York, apart from Richard II, Richard III and Macbeth for the Theatre for a New Audience, he directed Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare at the Public Theatre and Michael John Garcés Points of Departure, for Intar. His opera productions include Madama Butterfly and La Forza del Destino at the San Francisco Opera, Carmen at the Houston Grand Opera and Opera Pacific, Cosi Fan Tutte at the Arizona Opera and Pittsburgh Opera, The Turn of the Screw at the Berkshire Opera and Tosca at the Theatro Municipal in his hometown of Rio de Janeiro. He has just completed shooting his first feature film, The War Boys.