Danielle Breitstein is a New York-based musical theater writer, dramaturg, violin/viola doubler, and singer. Her first full-length musical Spelling Club: The Pop-Punk Teen Witch Musical, had its first staged reading at Rogue Theater Fest. It was directed by Avery Ingvarson and Music Directed by Mikayla Coxe. Its first concert reading was at MainStreet Players in Miami, Florida courtesy of LakeHouseRanchDotPNG. Her solo show RATZ was performed at The Tank in February of 2025. Attendees confirm they had a bloody good time. Danielle is a founding member of Time Slip, NYC’s newest weirdest queerest hottest Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow cast, a cast devoted to honoring the punk and queer origins of Rocky Horror and donating 100% of ticket sales to mutual aid and emergency relief funds.

As a musician, Danielle doubles on violin and viola. She is the violinist and co-composer for Ghina Fawaz’s adaptation of The Thousand and One Nights (La Mama 2026). She has also played with The 8-Bit Big Band at Sony Hall and the Berklee Performance Center. She’s played for many theater orchestra pits including The Elementary Spacetime Show (Lincoln Center, 2026) Spring Awakening (Narrows Community Theater, 2025) AREA D (Ars Nova and The Tank, 2025) Riceland by Jonathan Barbee (Columbia University, 2025) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Columbia University, 2025)

Danielle graduated from Berklee College of Music with a major in Professional Music, with concentrations in Musical Theatre Writing. MT Direction, and Contemporary Conducting. They received conducting instruction from George Monseur, Eric Stern and Julius Williams. As a violin principle she studied under Dr. Chelsea Green and Simon Shaheen. She was a member of the sophomore class of Writing and Design for Musical Theater at Berklee NYC, where she earned her Master of Arts in Creative Media and Technology. While there she studied under Julianne Wick Davis, Dan Marshall, Anika Chapin, Rona Siddiqui and Michael Starobin. Under their guidance she began development of Spelling Club. She presented her song Ms. Hardy in a masterclass with Tom Kitt, who recognized her as a great writer.