Dan Hurlin (born 1955) is an American

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and

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Life and work

Performance works include: ''No(thing so powerful as) Truth'' (1995); ''Constance and Ferdinand'' (1991) with

Victoria Marks Victoria Marks (born 1954) is a professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where she has been teaching since 1995. Before taking her post at UCLA she lived in London, where for three and a half years she worke ...

; ''Quintland (The Musical)'' (1992); ''The Jazz Section'' (1989) with Dan Froot; and two toy theater pieces, ''The Day the Ketchup Turned Blue'' (1997) from the short story by John C. Russell, and ''Who's Hungry?/West Hollywood'' (2008) with Dan Froot. His large puppet piece ''Hiroshima Maiden'' (2004), with an

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winning score by

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, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse and was awarded a

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citation of excellence. ''Disfarmer'' (2009), a puppet piece about American photographer

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, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse and is the subject of the 2011 documentary ''Puppet'', by David Soll. As a performer he has worked with

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Janie Geiser Janie Geiser (born 1957 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an American artist and experimental filmmaker. Her notable works include ''The Fourth Watch'', ''Terrace 49'', '' The Red Book'', ''The Secret Story'', ''Colors'', ''Immer Zu'', ''Lost Motion'', ...

, Annie B. Parson & Paul Lazar, and Jeffrey M. Jones, and directed premieres of works by

Lisa Kron Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron (born May 20, 1961) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for writing the lyrics and book to the musical ''Fun Home'' for which she won both the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Tony Award for ...

, Holly Hughes, Dan Froot, John C. Russell and

Erik Ehn Erik Ehn is an American playwright and director known for proposing the Regional Alternative Theatre movement. The former dean of theater at CalArts, the California Institute of Arts, he is the former head of playwriting and professor of theatre ...

. Dan Hurlin is a professor of dance composition and puppetry at

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and serves on the board of the

MacDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell ...

in Peterborough, NH. Dan Hurlin is the recipient of several awards including the 2004 Alpert Award for theater,CalArts Alpert Award Profile for Dan Hurlin
a 1990

for his solo adaptation of Nathanael West's ''A Cool Million'', and a 2001

Bessie Award The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

for his suite of puppet pieces ''Everyday Uses for Sight Nos. 3 & 7'', a collaboration with composer

Guy Klucevsek Guy Klucevsek (born February 26, 1947) is an American-born accordionist and composer. Klucevsek is one of relatively few accordion players active in new music, jazz and free improvisation. Klucevsek was born in New York City, and raised outside ...

References

External links

Dan Hurlin's Official Website
American puppeteers Living people Obie Award recipients Bessie Award winners Place of birth missing (living people) MacDowell Colony fellows American performance artists 1955 births {{US-artist-stub