Jeff has written and premiered over twenty full-length plays at the PRTC (see list below) and received awards for The Meaning of Almost Everything (2013 ATCA Nominee), Guest Artist (2006 ATCA Runner-Up), and Across the Way(2002 American Theatre Critics Association Best New Play Finalist). As an actor, he recently returned to Broadway in his Tony Nominated role of Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird and can currently be seen on Netflix in Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full. Drawing from his fifteen years of Onstage & Unplugged performances at the Purple Rose, Daniels recently hosted a new podcast, Alive & Well Enough. “It’s the book I’m not going to write. With music.”
Past PRTC Productions:
| The Classic King | Director | 2026 |
| Jeff Daniels Onstage & Unplugged | Himself | 2026-2009 |
| Norma & Wanda | Playwright | 2025, 2005 |
| Office Christmas Party, Grinch in Fight with Rudolph, Police Called | Playwright, Director, Actor (Madge during special performances) | 2024 |
| Diva Royale | Playwright, Director | 2023-2024 |
| Pickleball | Playwright | 2022 |
| Roadsigns | Playwright, Composer | 2020 |
| Diva Royale | Playwright | 2018 |
| Flint | Playwright | 2018 |
| Casting Session | Playwright | 2015 |
| The Vast Difference | Playwright | 2013, 1993 |
| The Meaning of Almost Everything | Playwright | 2013 |
| Escanaba in da Moonlight | Playwright | 2011, 1995 |
| Escanaba | Playwright | 2009-2010 |
| Best of Friends | Playwright | 2010 |
| Panhandle Slim & The Oklahoma Kid | Playwright | 2008 |
| Escanaba In Love | Playwright | 2008 |
| Guest Artist | Playwright | 2006 |
| Across the Way | Playwright | 2002 |
| Boom Town | Playwright | 1998 |
| Apartment 3A | Playwright | 1996 |
| Thy Kingdom’s Coming | Playwright | 1994 |
| The Tropical Pickle | Playwright | 1991 |
| Shoe Man | Playwright | 1991 |
