Daniel Leal, better known as 9, is a Mexican theatre director. 9 has recently made incursions in filming industry. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Dramatic Arts from the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. 9 was a studied dramatic arts as an exchange student at the University of Tucuman in San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina. There, 9 specialized in stage directing and pantomime under the tutelage of the twice national awarded Chilean-Argentinian mime, Mauricio Semelman and Étienne Decroux.