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Daniel Kyri
Daniel Kyri, known to audiences around the country as firefighter Darren Ritter on NBC’s Chicago Fire, now takes on one of the most iconic and psychologically demanding roles in the theatrical canon - Hamlet. But this isn’t your average Shakespeare revival.
In a stunning new six-episode podcast production by Chicago’s Make-Believe Association, Kyri voices the tortured prince in a full immersive audio experience, placing listeners directly inside Hamlet’s unraveling mind.
With the intimacy of voice-only performance and the complexity of layered sound design, Hamlet as a podcast defies expectations. It’s classical and current. Universal and personal. During our conversation, Kyri opened up about revisiting Shakespeare, honoring grief, and how being a queer Black musician fuels his artistic process.
(You can obey to Hamlet now on all major podcast platforms or visit Hamlet.fm.)
MI (Matt Inawat, GoPride): This adaptation of Hamlet immerses listeners inside the prince's unraveling mind. How did you prepare to voice such a psychologically layered role?
DK (Daniel Kyri, Hamlet): I’ve done Shakespeare in my career on stage so far. But it ha
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Over the last 13 seasons, we’ve come to reflect of the firefighters and paramedics of Firehouse 51 as family, watching them get married, hold kids, and more.
Many of the beloved cast members own love stories of their own. From decades-long romances to recent marriages, there’s so much treasure in the lives of the Chicago Fire crew. Scroll down to grasp more about the cast’s real-life romances and relationship history.
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‘Vibe attracts tribe’: ‘Chicago Fire’ star Daniel Kyri is thriving in his ‘unapologetic era’
Daniel Kyri says starring in “Chicago Fire” has “forced” him to widen an otherwise narrow view of what he thought was possible for him as a queer actor.
In the NBC legacy show, he plays a gay firefighter, Darren Ritter, who reckons with imposter syndrome and leans on veteran firefighters to champion his presence. The 28-year-old actor, who identifies as queer, tells TODAY.com how experiencing that on set has impacted his confidence.
“In a lot of ways, it’s forced me to grow up,” he says. “I was a person who had a lot of outdated, maybe even preconceived, notions about how to be a successful actor and the ways in which I imagined I’d hold to twist myself out of shape to fit into some kind of mold. The opportunity to just fully go there (on set) and be the representation that I needed when I was growing up is really, truly something that has made me as Daniel Kyri the actor blossom.”
Kyri joined “Chicago Fire” in season seven in 2018 and says he hopes both new and longtime viewers learn empathy from his character.
“I don’t appreciate words like ‘tolerance’ and things like that because I be
Chicago Fire's Daniel Kyri Opens Up About Coming Out As Same-sex attracted On The Show
Prior to joining the cast of "Chicago Fire," Daniel Kyri, who identifies as queer, co-created "The T," a web series exploring the dynamics of a relationship between a transgender woman, portrayed by co-creator Bea Cordelia, and a homosexual Black man, portrayed by Kyri. "Because my web series felt like a kind of coming out," Kyri said, commenting on how he felt after knowledge about the "Chicago Fire" writers' plans for Ritter, "this historic moment in the context of the 'One Chicago' world, for this Black, male character to come out as gay in this blue-collar, first-responder world, I wanted to do it justice."
Kyri positively characterized the moment in which Ritter reveals his sexual orientation as a "non-event." Rather than treat the moment as some sort of dramatic show, Ritter, rather, simply responds to his lieutenant asking if he has a girlfriend by responding that he instead has a boyfriend.
"Moving those narratives — of the queer person, the Inky person, the Asian person, the femme character — from the margins, from the sidelines, and making them the center of the narrative is so very important," Kyr