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Dan Dietz

DAN DIETZ

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Jonathan Lomma

Dan Dietz is a playwright living in Austin, Texas. His plays include Dirigible, Blind Horses, Tilt angel, tempOdyssey, and Americamisfit, and have been seen in New York, Los Angeles, and points in between. Dietz has been honored with a James A. Michener Fellowship, a Josephine Bay Paul Fellowship, and the Austin Critics Table award for Best New Play. He is a two-time finalist for the Princess Grace award and a nominee for the Oppenheimer award, the Osborn award, and the aTCa/Steinberg award. His short plays Trash anthem and a Bone Close to My Brain were produced at the 2003 and 2004 Humana Festivals of New American Plays, respectively. Trash anthem received the 2003 Heideman award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville. His play tempOdyssey was recently presented in a staged reading at the Public Theater as part of their New Work Now! Festival, and in an Off-Broadway showcase production in the Summer Play Festival. Dietz has developed his work at CenterStage (Baltimore, MD), Annex Theatre (Seattle, Wa), Horizon Theatre (Atlanta, Ga), the Playwrights' Center (Minneapolis, MN), Salvage Vanguard Theater (Austin, TX), and the Millay Colony for the Arts. Dietz's work has been published by Samuel French, Heinemann, Smith & Kraus, and Stage & Screen. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Theater from Kennesaw State University in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. Dietz is a Resident Company Member of Salvage Vanguard Theater and a Core Member of the Playwrights' Center.
biography courtesy of the Playwrights' Centre

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         Americamisfit         Blind Horses         Bone Close To My Brain, A         Breaking Even         Clementine in the Lower 9         Dirigible         End, The         Home Below Zero         Lobster Boy         Neon Mirage         Promageddon         Tempodyssey         Tilt Angel         Trash Anthem
Americamisfit

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Blind Horses

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Bone Close To My Brain, A

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What are the limits of brotherly love? and what do they have to do with the 32 bones huddling tight inside your mouth? Through spare dialogue and childlike illustrations, a man describes his relationship with his younger brother -- who is both brilliant and mentally ill -- and the heartbreaking decision he has to make.

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Hyde Park Theatre, Fronterafest (Austin, Tx, United States)     2003

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Playscripts, Inc - New York   

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Breaking Even

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Clementine in the Lower 9

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When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, Clementine's family scattered to the winds. Nine months later, they are reunited and anxious to rebuild -- but a new storm is brewing. Her husband has arrived from Houston with a strange young girl, who just may be a prophet, and the ghosts of those lost are awakening. Set to the jazz and blues of the Lower Ninth Ward, this modern retelling of Agamemnon delves into the agony and hope that come after the storm.

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Music composed by Justin ellington

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Dirigible

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End, The

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Written by Jennifer Haley; Allison Moore; A Rey Parmatmat and Dan Dietz

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Contained in: "Humana Festival 2011 - The Complete Plays" published by Playscripts Inc   

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Home Below Zero

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Khaled a young man from Iraq arrives in northern Minnesota in late winter. He is looking for an American soldier he had befriended. Jeff however is in a coma after standing on an IED. Jeff's father blames Khaled for this and all the ills that have befallen his family

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Lobster Boy

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Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami     01 Jun 2010

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America's Short Play Festival

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Contained in: "Humana Festival 2010 - The Complete Plays" published by Playscripts Inc   

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Neon Mirage

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38 million people visit Las Vegas every year for the glitz, the tits and the gold. But what's it like to live and work in America's Disneyland for grown-ups? Could you tell what's real and what's just a mirage?

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written by Liz Duffy Adams, Dan Dietz, Julie Jenson, Lisa Kron, Tracey Scott Wilson And Chay Yew, Music And Lyrics by Rick Hip Flores. Venue 5: Henry Street Settlement - Harry de Jur Playhouse

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the 2006 apprentice Company from Actors Theatre of Louisville

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Promageddon

Promageddon
the end is near: the apocalypse and what might come after is the subject of this collaboration of five playwrights that will be performed by Actors theatre of Louisville's acting apprentice Company. From the Book of Revelation to 2012, prophecies about the end of days have existed since the beginning of time. In the end, these five playwrights, all of whom have had work produced in previous Humana Festivals, envision scenarios ranging from a zombie infestation to a bunker beneath a high school

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part of the 2011 Humana Festival "the end". written by Dan Dietz, Jennifer Haley, Allison Moore, A. Rey Pamatmat, And Marco Ramirez

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Tempodyssey

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From the Big Bang to the basement file room of a Seattle skyscraper, mythology and corporate absurdity collide in the misadventures of Little Genny, an office temp who believes she is the Goddess of Death, on a quest for the meaning of life.
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New Jersey Repertory Company, NY     2007

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Tilt Angel

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Contained in: "Breaking Ground Adventurous New Plays From Adventurous theaters" published by Stage and Screen 2002   

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Trash Anthem

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in Humana Festival 2003: the Complete Plays, edited by Tanya Palmer and amy Wegener, Smith and Kraus, 2003   

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