Dan’s plays for families, young people and adults have been produced across Australia in theatres, school halls, parks, tents and even a barn outside of Hobart.
His plays include Feathers, The Great Un-Wondering of Wilbur Whittaker, SLAP. BANG. KISS., HOUSE, Mad as a Cute Snake and Cut Snake (both with Amelia Chandos Evans), Air Race, Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories, Jurassica, and two adaptations of Christos Tsiolkas’ writing, Merciless Gods and Loaded.
His first picture book, HOUSE (named after his play of the same name) is available now through Fremantle Press.
He has won three Green Room Association awards, a Helpmann Award, an AWGIE, and twice been shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. He was an inaugural writer in residence at Melbourne Theatre Company as part of the NEXT STAGE program, and has worked with companies including MTC, Barking Gecko, Malthouse, Arena, Terrapin and Red Stitch.
Dan lives on Wurundjeri country in Melbourne with his husband, daughter and Wally the dog.