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Dan Evans

DAN EVANS

  
Nationality:    USA
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Dan Evans is a New York based writer and painter. He has written and directed seven plays based on literary and historical figures produced at the Metropolitan Playhouse, New York--lighthearted comedies portraying Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Horatio Alger, and the signers of the Declaration of Independence. His published work s include Dialogues from the Ascent (Backyard Press, NY) a comic and metaphysical depiction of the life of St. Francis of Assisi; The Traveler I Have Spoken To (Backyard Press, NY) a book of poetry based on the writings and life of Henry Thoreau; and The Wedding Gift a short story published in The New Yorker. A prolific writer, Dan has written a five volume science fiction epic entitled "When Knights Are Called"; a series of four novels written in unprecedented dialogue format: The Dialogues anthology; a sprawling novel composed in seven different traditional literary styles: Akrim the Numerous; a murder mystery series featuring female private eye Bijou Marquee; Sisters of the Sea, a swashbuckling musical of women pirates; assorted screenplays; and three books of poetry: "Death, My Brother(based on the life and paintings of Vincent Van Gogh), "Passing Through, and The Pier and the Ocean". He has also written on art and the history of East Harlem. His last show of paintings was entitled "Shot Selections", a series of large black and white canvases depicting scenes from classic film noir movies. Dan is the assistant to playwright/actor/ performance artist LuLu LoLo.

Research:    http://www.indietheaternow.com/Playwright/dan-evans

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below is a list of Dan Evans's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Archangel         Graeme Of Thrones         Henry's Lunchroom         McGurk's "Suicide Hall" Saloon         Quoth the Raven         Return of Ragged Dick         Straitjacket, The

Archangel

Synopsis:
Just before he wrote "Moby Dick" Herman Melville suffered with severe writer's block. He went into a downward spiral and was saved by a prostitute and an archangel

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1st Produced:
4th Annual Living Literature Festival, Metropolitan Playhouse. New York     2009

Organisations:
LuLu LoLo Production

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Graeme Of Thrones

Synopsis:
Graeme takes you on his own unique journey through the Seven Kingdoms. Unhappy with how his beloved books were realised for the TV series, he has taken it upon himself to show you how it should have been done. He doesn't quite have the same budget, or as many cast members, or the performance skill required, but he's sure George would approve - and that's what matters. Featuring a family tree wider than The Wall and more subplots than anyone can follow, it's a rollercoaster ride of beheadings, incest and war. Fun for all the family. Created by a team of some of the UK's top comedy writers, Graeme Of Thrones is an original and un-authorised take on the international phenomenon that is Game Of Thrones. See it before the inevitable lawsuit.

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written by Toby Park, Jon Brittain, Andrew Doyle and Dan Evans

1st Produced:
Leicester: De Monfort Hall     22 Apr 2015

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comedy

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Henry's Lunchroom

Synopsis:
ernest Hemingway once said that American literature begins with Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. It could also be said that American literature truly begins with Hemingway's short story "the Killers" (1926). Here in Hannibal, Missouri, in 1850, young Tom Sawyer and the killers al and Max are brought together in Henry's Lunchroom.
nytheatre.com

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Part of Twainathon, A celebration of the work of the great American Author And humorist, Mark Twain

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Play/Drama

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McGurk's "Suicide Hall" Saloon

Synopsis:
In 1880, McGurk's was the place for the fallen woman to end it all, but singing waiter Irving Berlin, show/stunt/conman Steve Brodie, and bootstrapping reporter MacFarland are each ready to make a new start there. McGurk has a lot riding on Brodie's famous jump off the Brooklyn Bridge, MacFarland has a career to make on covering the story, and Berlin can find a song in anything.
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LuLu LoLo

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Genre:
short play

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Quoth the Raven

Synopsis:
Sparks fly when Edgar Allen Poe and his cantankerous pet raven collaborate on the poet's work.

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1st Produced:
part of the Literary Festival "Poe Fest" sponsored by the Metropolitan Playhouse, NYC     18 Jan 2006

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Play/quoth-the-raven   -

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Genre:
one act 45 min

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  1

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Return of Ragged Dick

Synopsis:
1866 Horatio Alger arrives in New York. He is a disgraced pederast and ex-Minister. He becomes famous for writing boys adventure stories

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Metropolitan Playhouse hosts the Horatio Alger Festival, the theater's seventh annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives and works of American authors. the Festival is a collection of five new works by artists and companies from near and far taking their inspiration from Alger's works and biography. the Horatio Alger Festival includes one-act and full-length plays, ranging from adaptation to biographical fantasy, all inspired by Alger and his work. Alger's legacy as the man who made the rags to riches story an American staple, is familiar to all; less well known are his actual stories, and the story of his own life, with inspirational and nefarious twists of its own. Together, these very different plays by singular contemporary theater voices will bring the author's work to a new audience, explore the persistent resonance of his themes in our own culture (for good and ill), and delve into the darker side of both the Alger myth and Alger the man.
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1st Produced:
9th Space theater
150 1st aVenue, New York, NY 10003     16 Jan 2012

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Genre:
Gay/Lesbian historical character

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Straitjacket, The

Synopsis:
In amherst, Massachusetts, in 1871, poet/recluse emily Dickinson's sheltered life is interrupted by a traveling woman magician looking for a room to rent while a notorious confidence man prone to violence roams the neighborhood hunted by local police and baying hounds
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Metropolitan Playhouse hosts Another Sky, the theater's fifth Annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives And works of American Authors. Another Sky is A collection of nine new works by Artists And companies from Across the US taking their inspiration from women of the long 19th Century

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a LuLu LoLo Production

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One act

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