[5][7] In 1959 Daniels performed in Sangue no Domingo by Walter Hugo Durst, Boca de Ouro by Nelson Rodrigues, directed by Ziembinski.

[8] A Incubadeira; Fogo Frio; Todo Anjo é Terrível Look Homeward, Angel with Henriette Morineau, directed by José Celso Martinez Correa;[9] A Vida Impressa em Dolar Awake and Sing; José do Parto à Sepultura by Augusto Boal) Quatro num Quarto; Um Bonde Chamado Desejo A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Augusto Boal); Os Pequenos Burguêses "Les Petits Bourgeois" by Gorki - with Eugenio Kusnet, Raul Cortez, Celia Helena, directed by José Celso Martinez Correa.

[11][12][13] In 1969 Daniels became a director and worked for five years directing for the following institutions: Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent: The Pot of Gold; Electra; She Stoops to Conquer; Coriolanus; Major Barbara; Fighting Man; Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf; Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street;[14] Ghosts; Drums in the Night; The Samaritan; Time Travelers; The Recruiting Officer.

[16] Drama Centre London: The Word[7][15] The Long and Short and the Tall; The Samaritan by Peter Terson, with Timothy Dalton; The Children's Crusade by Paul Thompson featuring Daniel Day-Lewis;[17] Female Transport by Steve Gooch; Sergeant Musgrave's Dance by John Arden; Into the Mouth of Crabs; By Common Consent by Paul Thompson; The Motor Show; Made in Britain; Bang by Howard Barker;[18] Ashes by David Rudkin, with Ian McKellen, Gemma Jones;[19] The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B by JP Donleavy, with Simon Callow;[20] Across from the Garden of Allah by Charles Wood,[21] with Nigel Hawthorne and Glenda Jackson; The Feast of Snails by Olaf Olafsson [22] In 1974, Daniels returned to the RSC, where he directed 34 productions until he moved to the US in 1991.

[79] Daniels runs a weekly 'salon' for actors from across the United States, who continue to work with him to refresh their notions of Shakespeare, examine new ideas and to prepare for auditions and roles.

[84][85] In 1989 Daniels took his Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet, starring Mark Rylance, to Broadmoor Hospital, a high security psychiatric unit.