Daniel Ulbricht was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, and began his dance training at the age of 11. At age 16, Daniel was invited by the School of American Ballet (SAB), the official school of New York City Ballet, to continue his training. As a student at SAB, Daniel performed with New York City Ballet as a Jester in Peter Martins’s The Sleeping Beauty. In December 2000, he became an apprentice with New York City Ballet, and in November 2001, he joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet. In January 2005, Daniel was promoted to the rank of soloist, and then principal dancer in May 2007. During his time there, he danced featured roles in a number of Balanchine, Robbins, Martins, and Wheeldon ballets including George Balanchine’s Prodigal Son, Tarantella, Stars and Stripes, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mozartiana, The Nutcracker, Symphony in Three Movements, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier; Jerome Robbins’s Fancy Free, Interplay, A Suite of Dances, and The Four Seasons; and Peter Martins’s Jeu de cartes, Hallelujah Junction, Eight More, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and Romeo + Juliet, among many others. Daniel also danced Tarantella at the 2004 Kennedy Center Honors to celebrate the Balanchine Centenary. He has also performed at a number of national and international festivals and galas. Daniel is a guest teacher at SAB, Ballet Academy East, as well as numerous well-known national dance schools, private schools, and universities throughout the United States. Daniel created and teaches a course at Yale University. He is currently the Director of Programming at Manhattan Youth Ballet, and is a former Artistic Director of New York State Summer School of the Arts in Saratoga Springs, New York. Daniel is also founder and director of Stars of American Ballet, a touring group focusing on high art, education, and outreach, and the co-founder and producer of Dance Against Cancer, an annual benefit for the American Cancer Society. Daniel is also on the board of the National Dance Institute.