Daniel Bird Tobin is a director, performer, science communicator, and theatre archaeologist. His work focuses on how to build compelling, emotionally-rich performances out of personal artifacts and scientific research. Through partnerships with scientists, he creates pieces that capture, communicate, and think creatively about cutting-edge discoveries. As a teacher and maker, Tobin embraces an experimentation-based approach to acting, directing, movement, devising, storytelling, and creative collaboration. He draws from the techniques of Viewpoints, Rasaboxes, Dance Exchange Toolbox, Stanislavski, Moment Work, Lecoq, and many others.

Tobin has performed solo shows across the United States and in England (favorites include An Iliad and Conqueror of the Western Marches), as well as directed numerous shows (Angels in America, Part One; Hamlet; and This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing are particular highlights). A graduate of the MFA in performance program at Arizona State University, he has trained with Dance Exchange, the SITI Company, Tectonic Theatre Project, and the Globe Theatre in London.

Tobin also maintains a longtime affiliation with the Center for Communicating Science at Virginia Tech as a Senior Faculty Fellow. In this role he collaborates with researchers on how to more effectively communicate their work to the public. Alongside Patty Raun and Carrie Kroehler, he is currently writing a book to share their training and facilitation techniques titled: The Art of Communicating Science: Presence, Storytelling, and Building Bridges.