Dan Hurlin (born 1955) is an American

puppeteer A puppeteer is a person who manipulates an inanimate object, called a puppet, to create the illusion that the puppet is alive. The puppet is often shaped like a human, animal, or legendary creature. The puppeteer may be visible to or hidden from ...

and

performance artist Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a pu ...

Life and work

Performance works include: ''No(thing so powerful as) Truth'' (1995); ''Constance and Ferdinand'' (1991) with

Victoria Marks Victoria Marks (born 1954) is a professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where she has been teaching since 1995. Before taking her post at UCLA she lived in London, where for three and a half years she work ...

; ''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 ''Stupid Kids'' is a play by John C. Russell (1963–1994), first published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. of New York, and first performed in 1991. Very similar in tone, plot, and characters to the film Rebel Without a Cause, the play follow ...

, and ''Who's Hungry?/West Hollywood'' (2008) with

Dan Froot Dan Froot is an American performance artist, writer, dancer, composer, and saxophonist. In 1991, Froot received a Bessie Award for his music theater work, ''Seventeen Kilos of Garlic''. In 2001, he received a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist ...

. His large puppet piece ''Hiroshima Maiden'' (2004), with an Obie Award winning score by Robert Een, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse and was awarded a

UNIMA UNIMA (''Union Internationale de la Marionnette'' - ''International Puppetry Association'') was founded in Prague in 1929 (the then Czechoslovak magazine Loutkář was UNIMA's first official journal in years 1929–1930). In 1981, the French pupp ...

citation of excellence. ''Disfarmer'' (2009), a puppet piece about American photographer

Mike Disfarmer Mike Disfarmer (born Mike Meyer, 1884–1959) was an American photographer known for his portraits of everyday people in rural Arkansas from the 1920s to the 1950s. His stark, realist photographs were rediscovered in the 1970s and later came to be ...

, 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 Ping may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book '' The Story about Ping'', first published in 1933 * Ping, a minor character in ''Seinfeld'', an NBC sitcom * Ping, a c ...

, Janie Geiser, Annie B. Parson & Paul Lazar, and Jeffrey M. Jones, and directed premieres of works by

Lisa Kron Elizabeth S. "Lisa" Kron (born May 20, 1961) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for writing the lyrics and book to the musical '' Fun Home'' for which she won both the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the Tony Awa ...

, Holly Hughes,

and

Erik Ehn Erik Ehn is an American playwright A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The ...

. Dan Hurlin is a professor of dance composition and puppetry at

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sarah Lawrence scholarship, particularly i ...

and serves on the board of the

MacDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDow ...

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
a 1990 Obie Award for his solo adaptation of Nathanael West's ''A Cool Million'', and a 2001

Bessie Award The New York Dance and Performance Awards, also known as the Bessie Awards, are awarded annually for exceptional achievement by independent dance artists presenting their work in New York City. The broad categories of the awards are: choreography, ...

for his suite of puppet pieces ''Everyday Uses for Sight Nos. 3 & 7'', a collaboration with composer

Guy Klucevsek Guy Klucevsek (born February 26, 1947) is an American-born accordionist and composer. Klucevsek is one of relatively few accordion players active in new music, jazz and free improvisation. Klucevsek was born in New York City, and raised outside ...

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