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  Daniel Damiano Writing Services (Editing/Adapting/Dramaturgy/Teaching)

About me

  I am a Brooklyn-based Playwright, Screenwriter, Novelist, Actor, Poet and Teaching Artist with over 20 years experience as a professional writer, performer and theatrical practitioner, in addition to my work as a teacher, adapter and editor. 

NOTABLE RECENT/UPCOMING
STAGE PRODUCTIONS & AWARDS:


THE DESSERT CART  (One-Act)
*2024 David A. Einhorn Playwriting Prize, Untitled Theater Companty #61.  Staged Reading at Opera America in NYC, Jan 2025.
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THE SURVEY  (One-Act)
Upcoming World Premier with Studio Theater in Exile, February 2025.  (Finalist, 2022 David Einhorn Memorial Playwriting Prize.)

ONE WITH THE CURRENT (Solo Play - Writer/Performer)
- Sept-Oct 2023, revival at 36th Street Studio Theatre, produced by fandango 4 Art House.
-  Sept 2022, World Premiere aspart of Theater for the New City's 2022 Dream Up Festival, produced by fandango 4 Art House.
-  Jan 2023 - Special Performance at the NY Society for Ethical Culture's Adler Hall, NYC.

AMERICAN TRANQUILITY (Solo Play - Writer/Performer)
- Jan-Feb 2020, revival at East Village Playhouse, NYC, produced by fandango 4 Art House.
-  July 2019, DC Premier as part of the Capital Fringe Festival, Washington, D.C.
- October 2018, revival at East Village Playhouse, NYC, produced by fandango 4 Art House.
- April 2018, revived as part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival, Theatre 80, NYC. (Runner-up -BestPlay)
-   January 2018, revived at the PIT Loft, NYC.
- November 2017, Premiered at the PIT Loft as part of SOLOCOM 2017, NYC.

THE LEPERS  (One-Act)
- 2019 Ensemble Studio Theatre's One-Act Marathon, NYC. 

HARMONY PARK  (Full-Length)
- March/May 2019, Detroit Repertory Theatre. 

THE WILD BOAR (Full-Length)
Finalist for Dayton Playhouse's Futurefest 2022, and  subsequent Finalist for both the 2019 Woodward/Newman Drama Award and the Janet and Bruce Bunch Award. 

DAY OF THE DOG  (Full-Length - Published in 2018 by Broadway Play Publishing) 
-  March 2014, NY Premier with St. Louis Actors' Studio, 59E59 Theatre in NYC.
-  March 2013, World Premier with St. Louis Actors' Studio.
-  Best New Play Nominee, St. Louis Theatre Critics Circle Award, 2013.

ADAPTATIONS - I adapted my short play, THE LEPERS, to the screen, which  premiered at both the 2020 Queens World Film Festival (Best Narrative Short Winner/Best Screenplay Nominee) and the 2020 Art of Brooklyn Festival.  It was last screened as part of the 2023 Chain Film Festival, NYC.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS - 
ADVICE FROM A CAT (Novel)
2024, fandango 4 Art House.
THE CONCRETE JUNGLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS  (Poems)
2024, Bottlecap Press.

(More Available at www.danieldamiano.com)

TEACHING -  I have led Playwriting workshops with the Knowledge Project, Acting Out!, Brooklyn Public Library and fandango 4 Art House, (a NYC based theatre company, to which I am Co-Founder/Artistic Director.)  I was most recently on the adjunct faculty of The Acting Studio, where I taught Solo Performance, and am a former Teaching Artist at the Boys' Club of NYC.

AFFILIATIONS -   Member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Actors' Equity Association, Co-Founder/Artistic Director of fandango 4 Art House, Member of the League of Independent Theatres and Mind The Gap Theatre Company . 

(To view my play catalogue, awards, publications and review excerpts, please visit www.danieldamiano.com).  
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