Daniel Breaker

Daniel Breaker is an American actor and comedian who studied at Juilliard and began working professionally in 2002. His early career took him Off-Broadway, to London and to regional theaters, including five productions for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. The Youth in the Off-Broadway premiere of Passing Strange was his first major part, and it won him an Obie Award in 2008; he played the role again on Broadway for a Tony nomination and appeared in Spike Lee's filmed version. He is best known for playing Donkey when Shrek the Musical opened on Broadway in 2008, a production that brought him a Drama Desk Award nomination. He has also appeared in Well and Cymbeline, co-hosted the Obie Awards in 2009, played the King of Navarre in Love's Labour's Lost and Aaron Burr in Hamilton, and has been part of Girls5Eva since 2021. In 2024 he played the Jester in a Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress.