Dante Green

Dante Green

Dante Green (they/he/she) (Playwright/Composer/Director) is a black, queer, gender non-conforming theatre-maker currently working and residing on Lenape land. They are a graduate of The University of the Arts with a BFA in Directing, Playwriting, and Production, where they focused on writing and directing for Musical Theatre. They are the Founding Artistic Director of The Makers' Ensemble, as well as an...
Dante Green (they/he/she) (Playwright/Composer/Director) is a black, queer, gender non-conforming theatre-maker currently working and residing on Lenape land. They are a graduate of The University of the Arts with a BFA in Directing, Playwriting, and Production, where they focused on writing and directing for Musical Theatre. They are the Founding Artistic Director of The Makers' Ensemble, as well as an alumnus of Headlong Performance Institute, a member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters, a member of FoolsFury, and an affiliate member of Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. Dante Green is also an award-winning Visionary Leader, and a Visiting Instructor at Sheridan College Ontario and Wesleyan University. They have worked with companies such as The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Pig Iron Theater Company, Lantern Theater Company, and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. Their work has been seen at Ars Nova, FringeArts, The Wilma Theater, and Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, as well as been commissioned by the Painted Bride Art Center and Sheridan College Ontario.

Plays

  • An Incomplete List of All the Things I'm Going to Miss When the World is No Longer: by Dante Green
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    8–18
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 9 more
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    Keyword: party, ensemble + 2 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, immersive, movement/physical, musical, romantic comedy, science fiction, tragedy
    Keyword: party, ensemble, music, death
    Following a global announcement of the date and time all life on Earth will be terminated, a group of friends decide the only reasonable thing to do is throw one more rager. An Incomplete List... invites you to the last shit show of the year to celebrate and mourn the delights and deceptions of the personal human experience. We’ve all been through a range of emotion that no one understands but you, so we...
    Following a global announcement of the date and time all life on Earth will be terminated, a group of friends decide the only reasonable thing to do is throw one more rager. An Incomplete List... invites you to the last shit show of the year to celebrate and mourn the delights and deceptions of the personal human experience. We’ve all been through a range of emotion that no one understands but you, so we figured it’d be nice to go out with a bang. Take from this experience what you will, for life will love and embrace you just the same. PS, there will be drugs.
  • Park Protectors by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: adventure, biography + 3 more
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    Keyword: Buffalo Soldiers, Park Protectors + 3 more
    Genre: adventure, biography, docudrama/historic, movement/physical, young audiences
    Keyword: Buffalo Soldiers, Park Protectors, Theatre for Young Audiences, educational, touring show
    Among the earliest caretakers of America's national parks were soldiers from all-Black regiments. Starting in the 1890s, the Buffalo Soldiers played a critical role in protecting and building the infrastructure of the country’s most cherished public lands, our National Parks. Using song and energetic physical storytelling, PARK PROTECTORS: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers and the National Park Service...
    Among the earliest caretakers of America's national parks were soldiers from all-Black regiments. Starting in the 1890s, the Buffalo Soldiers played a critical role in protecting and building the infrastructure of the country’s most cherished public lands, our National Parks. Using song and energetic physical storytelling, PARK PROTECTORS: The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers and the National Park Service takes young audiences on a musical journey through Yosemite and into the past to learn the compelling and under-appreciated history of the brave men who fought wildfires and poachers to create the now-familiar role of Park Ranger.
  • Johnny and Skid Rocketsh*t to The Moon by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 5 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller, science fiction, tragedy
    Set in a post-nuclear, post-apocalyptic world, two kids must find something to eat while remembering to be a kids along the way.
  • The Elm by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    11
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 6 more
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    Keyword: Anton Chekhov, Chekhov Adaptation + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, drama, melodrama, period, romantic comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: Anton Chekhov, Chekhov Adaptation, The Seagull, seagull
    A gripping adaptation of Anton Chekov's SEAGULL. Set in 2019 in Martha's Vinyard, then two years later in the throws of the pandemic, this retelling centers on Constantine, a black experimental writer, and his father Richard, the famous Broadway actor.
  • To Ronnie, With Love by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    8–14
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    Genre: adaptation, musical + 1 more
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    Keyword: Stephen Sondheim, coming of age + 2 more
    Genre: adaptation, musical, romantic comedy
    Keyword: Stephen Sondheim, coming of age, college, American musical
    Inspired by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's COMPANY, To Ronnie, With Love, could almost be considered a fan-fictionalized homage to the beloved broadway musical. It’s a version of the musical that is original to it's score, and that depicts that fuller modern world view, queerness and all, in it's book. And it’s a version where Bobby maybe, just maybe knows how to express his feelings just a...
    Inspired by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's COMPANY, To Ronnie, With Love, could almost be considered a fan-fictionalized homage to the beloved broadway musical. It’s a version of the musical that is original to it's score, and that depicts that fuller modern world view, queerness and all, in it's book. And it’s a version where Bobby maybe, just maybe knows how to express his feelings just a little bit better.

    Almost Summer, 2019. Graduation. Just before Ronnie takes a leap of faith moving to the big apple to find herself, her chosen family rallies to throw her a surprise going away party. Inspired by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s COMPANY, TO RONNIE WITH LOVE picks up on similar themes of love and societal pressure, but finds them in our youth; in our most vulnerable moments—among our most trusted loved ones— riding the line between relief and regret.
  • Levi's Big Leap by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    7–18
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: adventure, KKK + 1 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, musical
    Keyword: adventure, KKK, coming of age
    When Levi's family is mysteriously forced out of their small town home in rural Pennsylvania, Levi decides this is the perfect time to escape capitalist society and begin his own American Dream with his best friend Maddison and their mangy mutt Meatball. With time running short, Levi encounters fear (and racism) on his journey and discovers deep dark secrets along the way, including why his family had to move in the first place.
  • The Animal Ball by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    12–30
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: dance battle, allegory
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, movement/physical, parody/spoof
    Keyword: dance battle, allegory
    In a bourgeoisie world where when humans aren't watching, animals can speak, wine, and dine, two Lions hold the most exclusive invite-only party of the year.
  • We Are Children. by Dante Green
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: movement/physical
    Genre: movement/physical
    An intimate glimpse at a romantic relationship non-linearly. We Are Children puts the introduction, the relationship, and the break-up, all in one room.
  • When the Window Breaks by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    In a dystopian world where all land on earth is sinking, Walker and Tiffany get locked inside their Honda Odyssey fleeing to safety, forcing them to discuss their crumbling marriage.
  • While We Are Young by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: fantasy, movement/physical + 1 more
    Genre: fantasy, movement/physical, musical
    While We Are Young is about youth; it’s about like and love and all of their multiple relationships to relationships. Long days. Smoke breaks. Late nights. Youngsters working jobs nobody feels like working. Too many drinks after work. Too many hits off the L out back. Too many broken promises in the morning. First Impressions. First loves. First time seeing your life flash before your eyes. Do we ever get a...
    While We Are Young is about youth; it’s about like and love and all of their multiple relationships to relationships. Long days. Smoke breaks. Late nights. Youngsters working jobs nobody feels like working. Too many drinks after work. Too many hits off the L out back. Too many broken promises in the morning. First Impressions. First loves. First time seeing your life flash before your eyes. Do we ever get a step ahead? Will we ever stop crying? Will we ever stop laughing? When are we going to start living, like for real, for real? Why not, while we are young?
  • Clouds in the Kitchen by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    10–20
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: magical realism, magical queeralism + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, musical, romantic comedy
    Keyword: magical realism, magical queeralism, alternative musical theater, devised
    One Home. Five Decades. Clouds in the Kitchen is a multi-narrative, multi-generational musical piece about the history of a home. This piece explores the intersections between the home in our bodies, home as the house we live in, and home as the planet we are on. Weaving narratives from multiple walks of life, from artists to entrepreneurs, biological families to chosen ones, relationships to independence, the...
    One Home. Five Decades. Clouds in the Kitchen is a multi-narrative, multi-generational musical piece about the history of a home. This piece explores the intersections between the home in our bodies, home as the house we live in, and home as the planet we are on. Weaving narratives from multiple walks of life, from artists to entrepreneurs, biological families to chosen ones, relationships to independence, the piece reflects and walks the path of a storm, creating the question: How do we adapt to our environment?
  • Still by Dante Green
    Cast: 
    8–14
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: devised
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, movement/physical, musical
    Keyword: devised
    Nevertheless, and all the same.
    Up to and including the present, even now.

    A study of how we feel now, and how now can shape the future in flux.
    An experiment on how what we feel today can shape a story for tomorrow.
    Through writing and improvisational collaboration exercises, Sheridan College's Musical Theater Class of 2021 has created their own musical that...
    Nevertheless, and all the same.
    Up to and including the present, even now.

    A study of how we feel now, and how now can shape the future in flux.
    An experiment on how what we feel today can shape a story for tomorrow.
    Through writing and improvisational collaboration exercises, Sheridan College's Musical Theater Class of 2021 has created their own musical that reflects on their own personal and collective current moment, while opening a window of possibility of what could be our future.