Danielle Liccardo began her theatre training as an actress under the direction of Kathryn Gately (head of MFA
acting at Northern Illinois University), and received extensive classical training at both
The American Globe Theatre in New York, and at London Academy of Music and Dramatic
Art Professional Shakespeare Conservatory (LAMDA)
Ms.
Liccardo has worked commercially, off-Broadway,
regionally, in voice-over
and in film. New York roles include: The First Witch in
Macbeth at
The American Globe Theatre, Yelena in
Uncle Vanya at
Expanded Arts, the title role in
Lysistrata, Carol in
North
of Providence at Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST), Gale
in
Life During Wartime (2001
New York OOBR award recipient) at The Currican Theatre, Marla in
Specter at
The John Houseman Theatre and The Judith Anderson Theatre, Petroushka
in
Ballerinas at Manhattan
Theatre Source, Rose in
Scarecrow at
The Judith Anderson Theatre, A Pretty Lady and A Crazy Woman in
When
Words Fail at The John Houseman Studio Theatre, Jackie-O
in
The House of Yes and
Sarah in
The Mary Celeste at
The Greenwich Street Theatre in NYC. Ms. Liccardo will be playing the role of May, opposite Charlie Sandlan, in Sam Shepard's
Fool for Love at the Kirk Theater, NYC in 2009 with
Inertia Productions.
Regional theatre includes: Lady Macbeth in
Macbeth,
Gonerill in
King Lear for the Hudson Shakespeare Company, Titania
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Harrisburg Shakespeare
Festival and for the National Theatre, Rosalind in
As You Like It (London),
Don John in
Much Ado About Nothing and the Chorus in
Henry
V, both for the Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival, Katherine in
Henry
V (National Theatre) and Rose in
The One Stoplight in Hollis at
The Regina A. Quick, Center for the Arts in Connecticut.
Most recent
directing credits include
Out of Gas on
Lover's Leap at the Flatiron Theatre in New York, Eric Bogosian's
Suburbia at
New York University and co-directed
Henry V for the
Harrisburg Shakespeare Festival.
As a movement
and style specialist she trained at Actors Movement Studio in New York
under Mr. Loyd Williamson, and has coached privately, in film, off-Broadway
and regionally in such plays as
Henry V, Othello, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, The Tempest, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Tartuffe, The
Elephant Man, Floating Rhoda and the Glue Man, A Hatful of Rain, Five
Women Wearing the Same Dress, Beirut, The Importance of Being Earnest
and Tennessee Williams' The Case of the Crushed Petunias.
She is currently working with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company as a Movement and Restoration Specialist in preparation for their upcoming production of William Wycherley's "
The Country Wife". Ms. Liccardo has taught at Tisch School of the Arts - New York University
Undergraduate Drama and at Actor's Movement Studio in Manhattan. She is currently on faculty at Mason
Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey
as a movement specialist in the BFA professional acting conservatory,
at
Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York City, and at
Drew University in New Jersey.
She
is the co-founder and Artistic Director of
Inertia Productions, a not-for-profit
theatre company in New York City.