Dan Hurlin (born 1955) is an American

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and

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Life and work

Performance works include: ''No(thing so powerful as) Truth'' (1995); ''Constance and Ferdinand'' (1991) with Victoria Marks; ''Quintland (The Musical)'' (1992); ''The Jazz Section'' (1989) with Dan Froot; and two toy theater pieces, ''The Day the Ketchup Turned Blue'' (1997) from the short story by John C. Russell, and ''Who's Hungry?/West Hollywood'' (2008) with Dan Froot. His large puppet piece ''Hiroshima Maiden'' (2004), with an

Obie Award The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given since 1956 by ''The Village Voice'' newspaper to theater artists and groups involved in off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in New York City. Starting just after th ...

winning score by

Robert Een Robert Een (born 1952) is an American composer, cellist, and vocalist. Career Known for his use of extended vocal and cello techniques, Een has recorded eight albums of his compositions and scored several films. He received Bessie Awards for mus ...

, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse and was awarded a

UNIMA UNIMA (''Union Internationale de la Marionnette'' – International Puppetry Association) is an international non-governmental organization that brings together puppeteers and puppet enthusiasts to develop and promote the art of puppetry. It was ...

citation of excellence. ''Disfarmer'' (2009), a puppet piece about American photographer Mike Disfarmer, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse and is the subject of the 2011 documentary ''Puppet'', by David Soll. As a performer he has worked with Ping Chong, Janie Geiser, Annie B. Parson & Paul Lazar, and Jeffrey M. Jones, and directed premieres of works by

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, Holly Hughes, Dan Froot, John C. Russell and Erik Ehn. Dan Hurlin is a professor of dance composition and puppetry at

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and until 2023, served on the board of the

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in Peterborough, NH. Dan Hurlin is the recipient of several awards including the 2004 Alpert Award for theater,CalArts Alpert Award Profile for Dan Hurlin
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for his solo adaptation of Nathanael West's ''A Cool Million'', and a 2001 Bessie Award for his suite of puppet pieces ''Everyday Uses for Sight Nos. 3 & 7'', a collaboration with composer Guy Klucevsek. He won a 2014 Rome Prize in visual art.

References

External links

Dan Hurlin's Official Website
American puppeteers Living people Obie Award recipients Bessie Award winners Place of birth missing (living people) MacDowell Colony fellows American performance artists 1955 births {{US-artist-stub