Daniel Cancio
Naples actor Daniel Cancio currently stars as Father Flynn in Doubt: A Parable for The Studio Players.
Danny’s other credits include the title role of Larry Shue’s The Foreigner at Arts Center Theatre on Marco Island, little brother Trip in Other Desert Cities, Art, attorney Aaron Levinsky in Nuts, The Waverly Gallery, Jerry in The Zoo Story, the bartender in Speed Dating, the owl in Where is Man?, Senator Charles Whitmore’s campaign aide in Church & State, and Jerry in Don’t Talk to the Actors – all for The Studio Players in Naples. He also played Bear in Ghostbird Theatre Company’s production of Orbs! and Jonah in Laboratory Theater of Florida’s 2016 production of Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews.
He additionally took part in a staged reading of Robert Caisley’s The Open Hand, playing a chef and aspiring restauranteur by the name of Jack whose fiancee’ is befriended by a wealthy acquaintance who shows up to a dinner party bearing a $6,000 bottle of wine.
While at Florida Gulf Coast University, Daniel appeared in productions of The Tempest, Mr. Perfect, 12 Angry Men, The Foreigner and The Zoo.
October 1, 2019; revised April 30, 2024.