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 of Infinite Space (VR experience; 2018), produced by Roll The Bones with production support from "The Immersive Storytelling Studio" at The National Theatre (UK). More recently, Dan directed Untitled Hamlet Project (documentary feature; 2022) for Smith Street Stage.

THEATRE: Regional: Twelfth Night (American Shakespeare Center; Marquee TV). Off-Broadway: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Gym at...

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). More recently, Dan directed Untitled Hamlet Project (documentary feature; 2022) for 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: MFA Brooklyn College. 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").

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Scripts

Peace: Burial at Sea

by Dan Hasse

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Cast Size
10—21
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 Illyria with a...

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.

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Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana...

by Dan Hasse

Cast Size
9—20
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.

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 Size
12—19
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.

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 Size
2—4
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."

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."