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Daniel is a Toronto based artist and performer best known for his theatrical performances in Kinky Boots (Mirvish Productions), Spoon River (Soulpepper) and Ross Petty’s family musicals (Wizard of Oz, Lil’ Red Robin Hood). A two-time Dora Mavor Moore Award winner (for Best Ensemble: don’t freak out), he has performed on stages and in National Tours across Canada, the USA, and Australia. 

 
 

Daniel is a writer and musician, playing bass with Toronto throwback rock-and-roll outfit James King & The Midnight Hours and indie folk rock group JJ & the Pillars. He also creates and produces his own cabaret works, including a musical adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s book “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” and an original horror story told through pop-songs, “Love You To Death.” 

He is also host and creator of “Let’s Bogart”, a movie and cannabis review podcast which launches early 2021.

 
 
 
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Passion raises its voice in an arsonist’s increasingly uncontrolled paean to the thrill of burning down a courthouse (performed with detonative glee by Daniel Williston)
— Ben Brantley, New York Times
 
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 “Voice of his generation.”

- Joan Williston, Daniel’s Mother

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