Dan Hasse

Dan Hasse

WRITING: Plays include Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana… (HERE Arts; dir. John Gould Rubin), Fist in Mouth (Studio at Cherry Lane), and Peace: Burial at Sea (Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries - Shortlist). Screenplays include Fritz Haber (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award and Grant) and Daughters of Erin (HHF Films).

FILM: Dan adapted and co-directed Hamlet in the Golden Vale (feature film; 2018) and King...
WRITING: Plays include Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana… (HERE Arts; dir. John Gould Rubin), Fist in Mouth (Studio at Cherry Lane), and Peace: Burial at Sea (Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries - Shortlist). Screenplays include Fritz Haber (Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award and Grant) and Daughters of Erin (HHF Films).

FILM: Dan adapted and co-directed Hamlet in the Golden Vale (feature film; 2018) and King of Infinite Space (VR experience; 2018), produced by Roll The Bones with production support from "The Immersive Storytelling Studio" at The National Theatre (UK). Currently in post-production for Untitled Hamlet Project (documentary feature; 2021) with Smith Street Stage.

THEATRE: Regional: Twelfth Night (American Shakespeare Center; Marquee TV). Off-Broadway: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Gym at Judson). Off-Off: Richard II (Robert Moss Theater), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Access Theater; East Coast Tour), The Winter's Tale, Beautiful Bodies (Stella Adler Studio; NYU Conservatory). Dan co-founded Shakespeare in the Square and served as Associate Artistic Director at American Shakespeare Center.

TRAINING: BFA NYU Film School. 2014 LAByrinth Intensive Ensemble, 2015-2016 Shakespeare Society Ambassador, and 2018-2019 SDC Foundation Observer. Residencies with Bedlam ("MadLAB") and The Actors Studio ("The Playwright/Directors Unit").

Plays

  • Peace: Burial at Sea by Dan Hasse
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    10–21
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 1 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, period
    Final Shortlist - Shakespeare's New Contemporaries
    Caught cavorting in a Messalinian Molly House, Casimir and Marcus flee the city. When war breaks out, the lovers-turned-mercenaries find themselves separated at sea, with Marcus serving in the Illyrian navy and as for Casimir… well, rumor has it he’s turned pirate. Misfortune chases Marcus across the ocean, eventually crashing him on the shores of...
    Final Shortlist - Shakespeare's New Contemporaries
    Caught cavorting in a Messalinian Molly House, Casimir and Marcus flee the city. When war breaks out, the lovers-turned-mercenaries find themselves separated at sea, with Marcus serving in the Illyrian navy and as for Casimir… well, rumor has it he’s turned pirate. Misfortune chases Marcus across the ocean, eventually crashing him on the shores of Illyria with a strange young woman named Viola. Woven into the periphery of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Peace: Burial at Sea is a reflection on first love, loss, madness, and the dangers of bear-baiting.
  • Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana... by Dan Hasse
    Cast: 
    9–20
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    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic + 4 more
    Genre: comedy, docudrama/historic, experimental, immersive, movement/physical, tragedy
    Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana... is a theatrical tapestry of intimate encounters, inspired by Bernard Lonergan’s 'consciousness of conflict' philosophy. Based on the research and original writing of the Private Theatre Company.
  • Parents and Children by Dan Hasse
    Cast: 
    12–19
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, drama, period
    The play is an adaptation of Ivy Compton-Burnett's truly savage novel, Parents and Children. It's a farce (sort of) about the everyday injustices and accidental cruelties of a turn-of-the-century family.
  • Stringing Pearls by Dan Hasse
    Cast: 
    2–4
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fantasy, mystery/thriller
    A relationship disintegrates in real time. No frills-- just two characters playing games and telling lies for ninety minutes. If this play had a genre it would probably be "gaslight horror."