2019 Professional Theatre

• Executive Director, Theatre Tallahassee
• Previously, Managing Director, Quincy Music Theatre and Finance Director, Tallahassee Museum
• B.A., Humanities with concentrations in Theatre, English and Religion, Florida Southern College

Daniel Eilola is the Producing Artistic Director of Lake Worth Playhouse, a nonprofit theater in Palm Beach County, Florida. Since joining the organization in 2012, he has served in Development and as Black Box Series Producing Director before assuming his current role in 2019. He oversees artistic programming, production planning, and the hiring and coordination of creative teams across mainstage productions, the Stonzek Studio’s Black Box series, as well as special events and new works initiatives. 

His experience encompasses season selection, budgeting, casting, artist development, and the practical demands of producing theater within a nonprofit organization. He also supports new-work development through the Playhouse’s Square One program.

Eilola’s artistic approach emphasizes curiosity, a breadth of perspectives, and theater’s capacity to engage actors and audiences with relevant issues. He brings to grant review a working producer’s understanding of artistic ambition, organizational capacity, and service to the community.

• Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
• Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Davidson College
• Ph.D. in Theatre History, Theory & Criticism, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

• Associate Professor, Theatre Studies, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
• Editor (with Christine Woodworth), Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015); and Author, Staging the People: Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
•  Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Maryland, College Park