Daniel is a writer, director and Offie nominated playwright.

TV

Supervising producer for a new US Apple/A24 limited series.

Writing producer on Showtime’s series KING SHAKA exec produced by Antoine Fuqua.

Staff writer for the US Amazon series MIDDLE WEST (Outlier/Point Grey).

Episodes of HOLLYOAKS (Lime/Ch4), THE MARLOW MURDER CLUB (Monumental/UTV) and WATERLOO ROAD (Rope Ladder Fiction/BBC 1).

Original film SUPERDAD, for the award-winning anthology series ON THE EDGE.

Crime drama script THE BOROUGH made the 2019 Brit List .

Participated in the BBC Writersroom London Voices Scheme 2020, the BBC Writersroom Drama Room 2020 the BBC Writersroom Drama TV Writers’ Programme 2021 and the BBC Studios Writers Workshop 2021.

Comedy web series WEDDING DATES which he wrote, directed and produced was broadcast on BWNG TV, earned 30,000 views on YouTube and was nominated for three Screen Nation Awards.

THEATRE

Daniel’s play DISMISSED about knife-crime and the state school system was staged at Soho Theatre and led to an Offie nomination for Most Promising New Playwright.

“Rusteau creates a deeply absorbing and compelling scenario: from start to finish, everyone is hooked.”
★★★★ The Upcoming

“Powerful and poignant.”
★★★★ Voice Mag

“Crisp and urgent giving a sense of desperation.“
★★★★ Playhouse Pickings

Daniel participated in the 2019/20 Soho Theatre Writer’s Lab and his play THE ONES WE LOVE was also shortlisted for Soho Theatre’s Tony Craze Award and his play CHURCH STREET was shortlisted for the Platform Presents Playwriting Prize 2019. He’s had his work performed at The Bunker Theatre, Drayton Arms Theatre, The Pleasance Theatre, The Old Red Lion Theatre and The Paddington Arts Centre.

FICTION

Daniel is currently writing his first novella. ROAD RUNNERS is a collection of short pulp crime stories set in a fictional east London borough. It’s a dark and philosophical study of the criminal underworld with a subtle undercurrent of magic, mythology and mysticism.

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