Artists & Projects Directory
Dan Hurlin
Dan Hurlin's performance work has been seen in New York City at Dance Theater Workshop, P.S. 122, LaMama ETC, Danspace, The Kitchen, Arts at St. Ann's and St. Ann's Warehouse, as well as at alternative presenting spaces throughout the U.S. and internationally. He received a special Village Voice OBIE Award in 1990 for his solo adaptation of Nathanael West's A Cool Million, and his suite of puppet pieces, Everyday Uses for Sight: Nos. 3 & 7 (which premiered during the 2000 Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater) earned him a 2001 New York Dance and Performance award (a.k.a. "BESSIE"). In 1998, Hurlin was nominated for an American Theater Wing Design Award for his set for The Shoulder, which was produced at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT. In 1992, his solo Quintland earned sculptor Donna Dennis a "BESSIE" Award for visual design.
His other performance works include an adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, a duet for two men (with Minneapolis based playwright George Sand, 1986), voted one of the best plays of the year by the Boston Phoenix; Archaeology (1989), which toured extensively throughout New York and New England; No(thing so powerful as) Truth (1995); Constance and Ferdinand (with Victoria Marks, 1991); The Jazz Section (with Dan Froot, 1989); and his toy theater piece The Day the Ketchup Turned Blue (1997) from the short story by John C. Russell. Hurlin's most recent work, Hiroshima Maiden, with an OBIE award winning score by Robert Een, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse in 2004 and was awarded a Citation of Excellence from the Union Internationale de la Marionette.
Hurlin has performed in the works of Ping Chong, Mary Overlie, Janie Geiser, Jeffrey M. Jones, and Otrabanda Company among others, and has directed premieres of work by Lisa Kron, John C. Russell, Migdalia Cruz, Dan Froot and Holly Hughes (including her OBIE award winning Clit Notes). In addition to having served as artistic director of Andy's Summer Playhouse, a theatre by and for children in Wilton, NH for fifteen years, he has taught at Bowdoin, Bennington, Barnard and Princeton, and is currently on both the dance and theater faculties at Sarah Lawrence College, from which he holds a B.A. He was the director of the Puppet Lab at Arts at St. Ann's in Brooklyn for ten years. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Jim Henson Foundation and is currently on the Board of Directors for the MacDowell Colony. Hurlin has received individual artist fellowships from the NEA, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Creative Capital Foundation. In 2002, he received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and in 2004, he was the recipient of the Alpert Award in the Arts for theater.