(they/them) is an award-winning, non-binary, neurodivergent, Jewish playwright, screenwriter, director, and public school drama teacher from Oberlin, Ohio. Dan's original plays have been seen at The Riant Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, Boston Playwright's Theatre, Broadway Bound Theatre Festival, and the Rogue Theatre Festival, and they have directed in Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, and in Boston. Dan received a BA in Drama and English from Kenyon College and an MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University, with a concentration in playwriting and directing. Thier play The Piteous Life and Tragical Death of Steve the Intern won the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language, their play An Institution won the Peter Honegger Prize and the Theatre Network of Texas Production of Original Plays Award, and they won the OANO Award for directing Know Abuse. Dan lives with their wife Linda, daughter Greta, and the twins, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.