About Me
Fedly Daniel is a Haitian-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist working across performance, music, writing, and photography. His practice integrates original composition, text, and embodied performance to explore identity, memory, and the lived experience of navigating illness, migration, and selfhood.
Born in Haiti, Fedly moved to the United States at 17, joining his mother who had been living and working in New York as a nurse. His family of six shared a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn, where creativity became a constant presence—music, storytelling, and performance were part of everyday life. This early experience of migration, closeness, and adaptation continues to shape his artistic voice and his interest in how identity is formed and transformed over time.
Fedly’s artistic foundation is rooted in theater. He is a Meisner-trained actor and a graduate of the two-year program at the Ted Bardy Acting Studio, and later completed an apprenticeship at The Barrow Group. His performance work spans theater, film, and devised work, with credits including collaborations with Target Margin Theater, Concrete Timbre, and productions at The Chain Theatre.
Alongside his work as an actor, Fedly is a musician, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. As part of the Hip-Hop duo PHNTMSKY (NDNI), he wrote, produced, and performed original music characterized by layered vocals and textured, emotionally-driven sound. Music continues to be central to his practice—not as a separate discipline, but as a structural and expressive language that informs his performance work.
His current work expands into writing and devised performance, including playwriting and screenwriting, with a focus on nonlinear storytelling shaped by lived experience. As an acting coach and teaching artist at the Ted Bardy Acting Studio, he also works with actors on presence, emotional availability, and process-based performance techniques.
He is developing a solo performance work that integrates music, text, and physical performance to explore long COVID, identity fragmentation, and the process of returning to oneself over time. Influenced by his experience with ADHD, his work embraces nonlinear structure, repetition, and shifts in attention as compositional tools.
As a Haitian immigrant who became a U.S. citizen in recent years, Fedly’s work is also informed by the broader social and political realities shaping immigrant communities. His practice brings together personal, cultural, and systemic narratives, creating space for complexity, disorientation, and ongoing transformation.
Across all forms, his work seeks not to resolve, but to hold space—for what is fractured, evolving, and still becoming.
