Daniel is a versatile performer and writer based in NYC.

After graduating from Brown University with a B.A. in History (magna cum laude), he joined the National Tour of Fiddler on the Roof as Motel the tailor.

He has since acted in many other productions, making his Off-Broadway debut this past fall in Medea: The Musical Comedy.

He is also an accomplished screen actor, guest starring on an episode of Law and Order: SVU and History Channel’s Food that Built America.

In addition to performing, he enjoys writing. His personal essays have been featured in New Voices Magazine.

Press

"Miracle of Miracles’ has always struck me as one of the ‘Fiddler’ score’s few weak links, but Daniel Kushner, as the timid Motel the tailor, turns it into something special."

-Don Aucoin, Boston Globe

"Striking tenor Daniel Kushner is marvelously meek as shy tailor Motel, delivering one of the most endearing, epiphanous and lyric-driven renditions of ‘Miracle of Miracles’ I have heard."

-Russell Florence Jr. and Don Thrasher, Dayton Daily News

"As timid Motel the tailor…Daniel Kushner amusingly charts the classic transformation from mouse to man. His climactic self-discovery and self-congratulation provides the perfect segue into his rapturous ‘Miracle of Miracles’."

-Michael Grossberg, Columbus Dispatch