Dan Giles (he/him) is a playwright from Massachusetts. He is a second-year fellow in The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His plays have been produced and developed at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop, New Light Theater Project, First Floor Theater, Haven Theatre, The Great Plains Theatre Commons, and others. He is a recipient of the Clifford Odets Ensemble Commission from Lee Strasberg/NYU, the New Light New Voices Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, and the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwrighting. He is an alum of Harvard College (AB in English), the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama (MFA), and Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Contact djgiles47 [at] gmail.com |
Recent Work
The Charioteer
Shortly after Charly visits her estranged brother at college, he vanishes off the grid to live in a radical environmentalist commune. Ten years later, he needs her help. But first, she needs answers. The Charioteer is two-hander about the inevitability and difficulty of change. (1w, 1m)
The Dog Walker
After his friend’s suicide, a dog walker goes looking for comfort and finds himself entangled in an older couple’s marriage. As their intimacy increases, new hungers disturb old wounds. The Dog Walker is a love story, a coming-of-age story, and a ghost story about three generations of gay men. (2w, 4m)
The Estabrook School
Every Tuesday at recess, four white teachers meet in a second-grade classroom for their anti-racist reading group. This week, Jenny lost her shit. The Estabrook School is an ensemble comedy about the pleasures and dangers of empathy. (2w, 2m)
Shortly after Charly visits her estranged brother at college, he vanishes off the grid to live in a radical environmentalist commune. Ten years later, he needs her help. But first, she needs answers. The Charioteer is two-hander about the inevitability and difficulty of change. (1w, 1m)
- workshop (upcoming), The Juilliard School (2025)
The Dog Walker
After his friend’s suicide, a dog walker goes looking for comfort and finds himself entangled in an older couple’s marriage. As their intimacy increases, new hungers disturb old wounds. The Dog Walker is a love story, a coming-of-age story, and a ghost story about three generations of gay men. (2w, 4m)
- semifinalist, Terrence McNally New Works Incubator at Rattlestick (2024)
The Estabrook School
Every Tuesday at recess, four white teachers meet in a second-grade classroom for their anti-racist reading group. This week, Jenny lost her shit. The Estabrook School is an ensemble comedy about the pleasures and dangers of empathy. (2w, 2m)
- Clifford Odets Ensemble Commission, Lee Strasberg Institute/NYU (2024)
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