Performer

Daniel York Loh is A stage actor and performer whose work has stretched across classical theatre, new writing and experimental fringe as well as on screen and radio.

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“Daniel York Loh’s star shines particularly bright. He’s a prisoner and a rebel, a drunkard and a bird exterminator, in an impressive kaleidoscope of faces, voices and emotions he shifts between characters with vulnerability and intelligence…”

Time & Leisure review of No Particular Order at Theatre 503

He began his career in Mu-lan’s sell-out Porcelain - which transferred to the Royal Court where it is featured in their Living Archive – then opposite Alan Rickman in Hamlet at the Riverside Studios and on tour.

Since then he has appeared at the Royal Court (again), Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre, Donmar Warehouse, Hampstead Theatre, Gate Theatre, Finborough, Theatre 503 - in the regions at Leicester Haymarket, Bristol Old Vic, Traverse Edinburgh, Nuffield Southampton, Manchester Library - and most recently in the West End opposite Mark Ryance in Dr Semmelweis.

He has also worked extensively in Singapore with Wild Rice, Theatreworks, Finger Players, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Esplanade, and for Pangdemonium in Dealer’s Choice for which he was given the Singapore Life! Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He has also appeared in feature films including The Beach, The Receptionist and Scarborough, as well as on TV and in the award-winning web series Jade Dragon

  • "Daniel York Loh terrific as a jaunty ringmaster of autopsies…"

    Guardian review of Dr Semmelweis

  • "There are strong supporting performances from… Daniel York Loh as a rock-star lecturer"

    London Theatre

  • "And there are big, stylized performances from a strong cast of six – a menacing Daniel York Loh and alternately clownish and tragic Vera Chok are the standouts…"

    Time Out review of The World of Extreme Happiness

  • "… strong supporting performances, especially from Daniel York Loh as her contemptuous father, a coal miner who prefers his racing pigeons to his children"

    Telegraph review of The World of Extreme Happiness

  • "Katie Leung is brilliantly supported by Daniel York Loh as her pigeon-fancying father…"

    What’s On Stage review

  • "In a double role as Doctor Lu and Master Zhang, Daniel York Loh moves effortlessly from philosophical acceptor of tyranny to its brutal creator…”

    StageTalk Magazine

  • “The best performances make this chewy material come to roaring life: Daniel York Loh is a lusty Godunov…”

    The Times

  • “Daniel York Loh gives nuance to the emotionally imploding commander Deng…”

    Culture Whisper

  • “At the play’s heart, Daniel York Loh as Deng is a fantastic performance as a resolute father pushed to breaking point…”

    The Play’s The Thing

  • “Daniel York Loh is devastatingly good”

    Tribe Arts

  • “Daniel York Loh in a tightly focussed and humorously eccentric performance as the pathologist, Karl von Rokitansky, who relishes the endless supply of corpses for dissection…”

    Broadway Baby

  • “York Loh’s acting is striking, with his delivery of words portraying an array of emotions that perfectly complement the swell from the music and the dynamic choreography..."

    The Upcoming

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