Danica Selem is a Croatian-born, New York-based theater and film director, architect, and educator. She is currently a New York Theater Workshop 2050 Directing Fellow.
She founded Bodies Intersect Buildings, a working group exploring the intersection of architecture, performance art, and ecology, and spent three years as a Visiting Professor at Cornell University’s Department of Architecture where her teaching focused on the social and political aspects of spatial design, and its relationship to theater and performing arts.
Her work has been supported by Cornell University, LMCC, Columbia University, NYTW, and shared at venues including Pioneer Works, IPADÉ – A Prelude to the Shed, American Institute of the Architects, Dixon Place, Theater at the 14Y, and The Tank among others.
Select credits: Phaedra’s Love (Columbia University), I Saw Your Mama Dancin’ at Claremont Lounge (NYTW - development workshop), Verity Sits In Her Apartment (LimeFest at The Tank), and upcoming La Cocina (New School), and Mad Forest - A Play From Romania (Montclair University). She recently directed two short films. Parallel, a sci-fi musical parody that won 1st place at Sci-Fi-London, and Mothers And Lovers, a short narrative film starring Esco Jouléy and Or Schraiber, which is currently in post-production scheduled to be finished in March 2025.
Danica holds a BA in Architecture and Urban design from the University of Zagreb, an MA in Architecture from Pratt Institute and she just received her MFA in Theater Directing from the Columbia University School of the Arts. She trained with Anne Bogart, Brian Kulick, Katie Mitchell, Saheem Ali, Rachel Chavkin, and Ivo van Hove among others. She is an Associate Member of SDC.
Upcoming:
I Saw Your Mama Dancin’ at Claremont Lounge, NYTW
La Cocina by Tony Meneses, The New School Eugene Lang College
Mad Forest - A Play From Romania by Caryl Churchill, Montclair University
Mothers and Lovers, short film
