Daniel Brunet was born in  Syracuse, New York, studied theater and film at Boston College and moved to Berlin in 2001 with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship.  A theater maker, performer, and translator, Brunet became Producing Artistic Director of English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center in 2012 and established an artistic concept there that mirrors his own work: English as a working language, used by non-native speakers and native speakers alike in bilingual or multilingual works.

Brunet has received multiple awards for his over thirty play translations, including the Literary Fellowship in Translation from the U.S. National Endowment of the Arts. Together with the playwright and theater maker Sibyl Kempson, he received an Ibsen Scope Grant for the project A Bee in the Heart of Her from the Ibsen Scope Festival in Norway which received its world premiere in June 2026.