Daniel Kyungmin Isaac* (he/him/his) is a queer Korean American actor and writer based in New York City.

As an actor, Daniel was recently in Los Angeles at Geffen Playhouse’s production of Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahue, directed by Colm Summers. He has also been seen on off-Broadway NYC stages in You Will Get Sick by Noah Diaz (Roundabout, dir. Sam Pinkleton, opposite Linda Lavin); The Chinese Lady by Lloyd Suh (Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Ma-Yi/The Public); You Never Touched the Dirt (Clubbed Thumb); The Gentleman Caller (Abingdon), Sagittarius Ponderosa (NAATCO), Underland (59E59), and Anna Nicole the Opera (BAM).

Daniel can currently be seen as ‘Lt. Steve Connor’ on season two of “Elsbeth” (CBS). Previously, he portrayed fan favorite ‘Ben Kim' on seven seasons of "Billions" (Showtime) and ‘Jeremy Delongpre’ on “The Other Two” (HBO MAX). Other film and television credits include “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” “The Deuce,” "Crashing," “Search Party,” Too Big To Fail (HBO MAX); Plan B; The Drummer (opposite Danny Glover); "The Expecting" (Quibi, dir. Mary Harron); Money Monster (dir. Jodie Foster); “The Jim Gaffigan Show” (TV LAND); “The Following” (Fox); “Believe” (NBC); “Person of Interest” (CBS).
Upcoming features: Outerlands; Caravan, Dirty Rhetoric.

Daniel’s writing has been championed by MacDowell, Ma-Yi Theater Company, National Endowment for the Arts, MTC’s Groundworks Lab, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Bedlam, Barrington Stage, NYTW, Page73’s Writer’s Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, Queens Theatre, The Tank, TheatreC, Leviathan Lab, and Lambda Literary. Daniel had his off-broadway playwriting debut with ONCE UPON A (korean) TIME in the summer of 2022 with Ma-Yi Theater Company, directed by Ralph B. Peña at La MaMa.

Daniel began writing many moons ago in order to share conversations he had with his ultra-conservative, uber-Christian, Korean immigrant, single mother. If you'd like to know too much about this hilariously sad / painfully funny relationship head on over to According To My Mother. He sometimes writes about other things not related to his mother. Sometimes…

* 'Isaac' means 'laughter' in Hebrew. Daniel is a very loud laugher.