Daniel Arnold (aka Daniel Smith Arnold) is a Canadian actor and writer based in

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. He is most noted as cowriter with Darrell Dennis and Medina Hahn of ''Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience'', a stage play which was shortlisted for the

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at the 2022 Governor General's Awards."The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for drama"
CBC Books, October 12, 2022.

Early life

Born in

Nelson Nelson may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey * ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers * ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...

, and raised in

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, he studied theatre at the

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as a classmate of Hahn, with whom he has remained closely associated as partners in the DualMinds theatre company.

Career

He won two Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards in 2001 for ''Tuesdays & Sundays'', as Outstanding New Work and Outstanding Actor. In 2008, when

Daniel MacIvor Daniel MacIvor (born July 23, 1962) is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director, and film director. He is probably best known for his acting roles in independent films and the sitcom '' Twitch City''. Personal MacIvor was born in Sydney, ...

won the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, he selected Arnold and Hahn as the winners of the Protégé honour. In film, he is most noted as the writer and co-star of '' Lawrence & Holloman'', the 2013 film adaptation of

Morris Panych Morris Stephen Panych (born 30 June 1952) is a Canadian playwright, director and actor. Early life Panych was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He studied at Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, and the Universit ...

's stage play,Janet Smith
"Lawrence & Holloman serves its comedy nihilistically black"
''

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'', July 16, 2014. and for his role as Richard Maynard in the 2021 film '' Be Still''. He received

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nominations for Best Actor in a Film and Best Screenwriting for ''Lawrence & Holloman'' in 2014, and Best Actor in a Film for ''Be Still'' in 2022, and received a Canadian Comedy Award nomination for Best Writing in a Film at the 15th Canadian Comedy Awards in 2014 for ''Lawrence & Holloman'', which also received the award for Best Feature Film. His play ''Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience'' is a stage play about indigenous land claims which features points at which the audience can vote on the direction the story would take, requiring the actors to be prepared for at least 50 different possible permutations of the performance. It was shortlisted for the

at the 2022 Governor General's Awards. His other plays have included ''Tuesdays & Sundays'', ''Any Night'', and ''The Ridiculous Darkness''.Stuart Derdeyn, "The Ridiculous Darkness a comic Apocalypse Now; Adaptation of absurdist German radio play pokes fun at Conrad and Coppola". ''

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'', November 11, 2017.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

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