Sean Daniels

Sean Daniels is a leading voice in using the arts to defeat addiction.

He is an internationally known theater director, writer, and artistic director, known for new work and innovative community-based leadership.

His play, The White Chip, a New York Times Critics’ Pick, has been performed around the world as a catalyst for community conversation and connection. It ran Off-Broadway, produced by Hank Azaria, Jason Biggs, and Tony® winners John Larroquette and Annaleigh Ashford. The New York Times commented, “Plays save lives in all kinds of ways. I would bet that The White Chip has and will.”

He is the Director of the Recovery Project and serves as the Anti-Stigma Director for Live Tampa Bay, where his geotargeted anti-stigma campaign reached almost 13 million people in eight weeks. A USF analysis of the program found that it had “significant impacts in aspects of nearly every domain of addiction stigma.”

His op-ed in the Los Angeles Times about Matthew Perry’s passing and the stigma of relapses was read over 200,000 times.

In 2024, he will be a panelist and producer with the SAMHSA’s Recovery Month webinar and a lead participant with Hazelden Betty Ford’s Next Level Summit.

In the arts world, Sean has been named “one of the top fifteen up and coming artists in the U.S., whose work will be transforming America’s stages for decades to come” and “One Of 7 People Reshaping and Revitalizing The American Musical” by American Theatre magazine.

Most importantly, he shares his life with Veronika and Vivien in sunny Bradenton, Florida.