Thomas Daníel Valls is a Miami-native playwright, poet and television writer born out of two Cuban immigrants in 1990. In 2013, he received BFAs from NYU in Dramatic Writing for Theatre and Television, Psychology, and Russian Literature. Mentored by Eduardo Machado and Edward Albee, his works have been produced and workshopped at Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theatre, LAByrinth, the New York Drama League, Cherry Lane Theatre, Lakeland Center of Performing Arts, Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Sheen Center, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, McCadden Place Theatre, New Theater Miami, Artistic Vibes Miami, Celebration Theatre and Roxy Theatre Miami. Most recently, he was a member of the 2022-2023 IAMA Theatre Company Emerging Playwrights Lab. In television, Thomas has developed shows for and with Amazon, Disney, and Netflix. A proud homosexual and edgelord seemingly on Wellbutrin, Thomas lives with his dog in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. 

A list of his developed, workshopped, and produced projects is provided below. A link to his New Play Exchange profile is set to come soon, or so he says. 

email: thomas.d.valls@gmail.com
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HIJO, MADRE
– Dir. Margaux Susi – IAMA Theatre Company, Los Angeles, CA – July 2023
As part of the 2022 – 2023 IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab

DADDYKINS
– Dir. John Michael DiResta – Drama League, New York City, NY – July 2016
– Dir. Ricky J. Martinez – New Theatre, Miami, FL – July 2015
– Dir. Ricky J. Martinez – Artistic Vibes, Miami – June 2015 
– Dir. Eduardo Machado – New York University, NY – June 2013

DISNEY RIDES
– Dir. John Michael DiResta – Drama League, New York City – November 2015

MIAMI IS SINKING
– Dir. Thomas Daniel Valls – Artistic Vibes, Miami – September 2015
– Dir. Jose Rivera Jr – Dixon Place, New York City – July 2014
– Dir. Tristan Carter Jones – Nuyorican Poet’s Café, New York City – October 2013

IN THE HALL OF THE SQUIRREL KING 
– Dir. Anna Mehle – McCadden Place Theater, Los Angeles – February 2015 

GOING, WHERE
– Dir. Amanda Ortega – New Theatre, Miami – December 2014

THE EASTERNERS
– Dir. Anna Mehle – McCadden Place Theater, Los Angeles – November 2014 

GENTLEMEN OF KENTUCKY
– Dir. Kevin Hourigan – Dixon Place, New York City – February 2013 
– Dir. Harold Clinton Archambault – New Theatre, Miami – November 2013

BULLSHIT UTAH
– Dir. Ricky J. Martinez – New Theatre, Miami – January 2013

TUNISIA
– Dir. Francesca Di Cesare – Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York City – May 2012
– Dir. Kevin Hourigan – Cherry Lane Theater, New York City – November 2011

NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND BOY
– Dir. David Deblinger – LAByrinth Theatre Company, New York City – November 2011

CRAYONS
– Dir. Nicole Quintana – New Theatre, Miami – August 2010