Danny Ball

Danny Ball is an actor and playwright. He graduated from NIDA in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting), and is a proud Italian-Australian with Sicilian and Abruzzese heritage.

Theatre credits include Troy and Loaded for Malthouse Theatre, The Glass Menagerie (Ensemble Theatre), Holding the Man (Belvoir St Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, The Players Tour (Bell Shakespeare), Darwin’s Reptilla, The Italians (Belvoir 25a), Cleansed (Old Fitz), Mercury Fur, The Serpent’s Teeth (KXT), Blackrock (Seymour Centre), Love Me (Old 505), Speak English or Die (La Mama).

Screen credits include Totally Completely Fine (Stan), A Beginner’s Guide to Grief (SBS), Home & Away, KICK (SBS).

Danny’s plays include: The Italians (Belvoir 25a) which was filmed by Australian Theatre Live and is to be published by Playlab, Scab (ATYP) published by Playlab and nominated for Best Production for Young People at the 2024 Sydney Theatre Awards and La Malattia, which was developed through Australian Plays Transform.

Danny was the recipient of a Greenroom Award for Outstanding Performer for his work on Loaded. In 2024, the Casting Guild of Australia named him one of the year’s Rising Stars, with the potential to break out onto the world stage.