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Ensemble Member Danny Ahlfeld
Ensemble Member

Danny just finished filming Margarine Wars where he played Judge Carroll Trumball and Return to the Hiding Place where he played Smit in 2011; slated to be released this winter. He recently played Dan Enright in Night and Her Stars at The Gift.

Other Gift credits include Lonesome West, Suicide, Incorporated, Summer People, 6, County Fair, A Young Man In Pieces, and Language of Angels. He was invited to join The Gift Ensemble after he acted in Orestes 2.0. His directing credits are Streamers and The Executioner’s Daughter.

Danny served as Executive Director of The Gift from 2004-2009 and led the charge to build the space at 4802 North Milwaukee Avenue with the help of many friends and neighbors. Danny is a Chicago firefighter, and dedicates the rest of career as an actor to the memory of his brother Jimmy Ahlfeld, who passed to the other side June 5, 2011.