Daniel Gallant is the Executive Director of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, an arts presenting venue in Manhattan’s East Village. He previously served as the Director of Theater and Talk Programming at the 92nd Street Y’s Makor Center and at 92YTribeca, and as an independent producer and event promoter. Daniel has been featured in periodicals and blogs including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Time Out New York and Crain’s New York. He was recently selected from among 6,000 recipients of Google grants to discuss the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s online strategy with a group of 300 small businesses as part of a joint venture between Google and Chase. He has produced plays, concerts and musicals at venues including the off-Broadway DR2 Theatre, Dixon Place, Center Stage, Theater for the New City, Abingdon Theatre, Brooklyn Museum, Galapagos, the Cornelia Street Café, the 13th Street Rep, Bowery Poetry Club and the Henry Street Settlement. His writing appears in the Vintage Books anthology Talk to Me and several volumes of Applause Books’ Best American Short Plays anthologies.