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Dan LeFranc

DAN LEFRANC

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, LLC  represented by Derek Zasky

Dan LeFranc received the 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright award for Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, premiered by Page 73 Productions and Soho Rep. His most recent play, the Big Meal, received its world premiere at American Theater Company in Chicago, and will receive its New York premiere at Playwrights Horizons this season. His other plays include Troublemaker or the Freakin Kick-a adventures of Bradley Boatright, Origin Story, Bruise easy, Night Surf, In the Labyrinth, the Fishbone Fables, Backyard, Kill the Keepers, and Catgut. Dan's work has been seen or developed across the country at the Public Theater, the Vineyard Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, MCC Theater, the Kennedy Center, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the Studio Theatre, American Theater Company, the House Theatre of Chicago, Trinity Repertory Company, arsNova, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Clubbed Thumb, Magic Theatre, the Hangar, Circle X Theatre, and the Page 73 Productions Summer Residency at Yale, among others. awards include a Helen Merrill award, the Whitfield Cook award, the John C. Russell Fellowship, a Djerassi Resident artists Program Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony/alpert Foundation Residency; and commissions from Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and American Theater Company in Chicago. He is a proud member of New Dramatists, the MCC Playwrights' Coalition, and a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. a graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brown University, Dan served as visiting faculty in Literary Arts at Brown and head playwriting instructor of the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. He was recently a visiting lecturer at University of Rochester, Whitman College, and the alaska State Theater Institute at Perseverance Theater. Sixty Miles to Silver Lake is published by Samuel French and his short play, Hippie Van Gumdrop, is published in the Backstage Book of New American Short Plays 2005, edited by Craig Lucas. He was born and raised in Southern California.

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         Backyard         Big Meal, The         Bruise Easily         Catgut         Fishbone Fables, The         Hippie Van Gumdrop         In the Labyrinth         Kill the Keepers         Night Surf         Origin Story         Our War         Rancho Viejo         Sixty Miles To Silver Lake         Troublemaker Or the Freakin Kick-A Adventures Of Bradley Boatright

Backyard

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Big Meal, The

Big Meal, The
Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole first meet. Sparks fly. And so begins an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye. A stunning, big-hearted play that spans nearly eighty years in roughly ninety minutes, The Big Meal tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary family.

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American Theatre Company (Chicago)     03 Feb 2011

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Bruise Easily

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Single, pregnant, bitter Tess returns home to suburban hell, only to find that her mom's MIa and her loser brother has parked himself on the driveway. as the laws of physics morph all around them, they are coached by a weirdly articulate gang of neighborhood children, whose message gradually comes into focus. . .

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Developed: Magic theatre; Portland Center Stage's JaW/West Festival; Brown University; And Kitchen Dog theater.

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Catgut

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Fishbone Fables, The

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the Scratch. the Gloom. the Tallyman's Tally. Very little is known about the elusive Fishbone Fables, save for a number of crude maps that managed to survive the Providence festival. Come join the Mad Minstrels of New england (and their bookish translator) as they recreate a theatrical event whose supreme antiquity is only matched by its tremendous mysteries. With songs.

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Developed: Brown University's Annual New Plays Festival.

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Hippie Van Gumdrop

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Syd and Dana, two estranged sisters, rummage through their dead mother's van-turned-hippie-hovel in search of anything that resembles the woman they never understood.

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In the Labyrinth

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Kill the Keepers

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Night Surf

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another sun-drenched summer on the Southern California sand for a gang of teenage surfer girls: Hot lifeguards, late-night s'mores, and killer waves. But when they declare a ban on boys, their turf turns into an all-out beach blanket blood bath. Can you say Worst Summer ever?

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Origin Story

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Somewhere in the American Midwest, a mysterious comic book with supernatural powers is threatening the livelihood of a small town called Nowheresville. the highways have become rivers, ordinary citizens have sprouted tentacles, and a bizarre double-murder has the whole community bewildered. Why Nowheresville? Why now? and most importantly: What's the story behind this meddlesome comic book's devious author?

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Developed: the Public theater; Sundance theatre Institute; Woolly Mammoth theatre Company; the Kennedy Center; American Repertory theater; And the Hangar theater.

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Our War

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While the plays that took the perspective of participants were some of the most crisp, the last kind of play in the evening, plays that look at today with the eyes of the present (but through the lens or with the lighting of the Civil War), hit the hardest. Most of them use the Civil War as a way to talk about race in America, from Ken Narasaki's thoughts on racism that isn't divided into Black and White to Lydia Diamond's chastisement of White liberal guilt. - http://dctheatrescene.com/2014/10/28/war-arena-stage-resounding-success/

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An esteemed collection of American playwrights, including winners of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award and Olivier Award, creates a dynamic new theatrical event reflecting on the repercussions of the U.S. Civil War. Through a rich tapestry of short monologues, a core ensemble of gifted actors, accompanied by notable Washingtonians such as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Chris Matthews, explorethrough diverse perspectivesthe historical memory and present-day reverberations of the U.S. Civil War. Our War, commissioned by Arena Stage for the National Civil War Project, uses the power of live theater to bring new understanding to the shades of Blue and Gray that define one of the most significant periods of American history.

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Rancho Viejo

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The marriage of Richie and Lonna on the rocks. This affects the parents living miles away in Rancho Viejo and then the other inhabitants of the town

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Playwrights Horizon, New York     11 Nov 2016

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Sixty Miles To Silver Lake

Sixty Miles To Silver Lake
a moving car. a Father and son. the Father drives. the son's face is pressed against the rolled up window. a lifetime can pass in the sixty miles between a boy's soccer practice and his father's new apartment

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received the 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award

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SoHo Rep, NY, USA >>>     15 Jan 2009

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Troublemaker Or the Freakin Kick-A Adventures Of Bradley Boatright

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Twelve-year-old Bradley Boatright thwarts single dads who want to date his mom, defeats a diabolical video game mastermind, outwits an evil Superintendent, and plans his escape to the wilds of Business-Class Rhode Island. But the world Bradley sees may not quite be the same as the one in which he lives. Prepare to embark on a fast-paced epic adventure full of Drama, danger, and kicking a.

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