Daniel McCoy

Daniel McCoy

Daniel is a playwright and performer based in New York City whose plays include Dick Pix, Perfect Teeth, Nothing Beyond the Light Matters, Four and Twenty Draculas, Cleave, and Epimythium. His work has been produced and developed recently with Theaterlab, Primary Stages, Project Y Theatre, IATI Theatre, Dutch Kills Theatre, and Simple Machine Theatre. He is a recent member of the Project Y Playwrights Group and...
Daniel is a playwright and performer based in New York City whose plays include Dick Pix, Perfect Teeth, Nothing Beyond the Light Matters, Four and Twenty Draculas, Cleave, and Epimythium. His work has been produced and developed recently with Theaterlab, Primary Stages, Project Y Theatre, IATI Theatre, Dutch Kills Theatre, and Simple Machine Theatre. He is a recent member of the Project Y Playwrights Group and the Cimentos Play Development Program at IATI Theatre. As an ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists, Daniel can be seen writing and performing in The Infinite Wrench (formerly Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind) at the Kraine Theatre. Other productions with the Neo-Futurists include The Great American Drama, Mute (New York Innovative Theatre Award winner) and (un)afraid (NYIT Award nominee). Daniel is a graduate of the MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College, where he studied with playwrights Tina Howe and Arthur Kopit and dramaturg Mark Bly. He directs regularly for the Writopia Lab Worldwide Plays Festival, showcasing the work of young playwrights.

Plays

  • Nothing Beyond the Light Matters by Daniel McCoy
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: apocalypse, queer + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, fantasy, holiday
    Keyword: apocalypse, queer, music, religion, Sex
    It's New Year's Eve, 1999, just a few hours before midnight. Nolan, a born-again Christian former heavy metal guitarist meets Isaac, an anarchist punk in Fantasy Now, the sex shop where Nolan inexplicably works the register. Nolan believes the Rapture is about to happen and Isaac believes the Y2K bug is about to strike. As the evening unfolds, they discover they may or may not be the only two people left in the world.
  • Dick Pix by Daniel McCoy
    Recommendations: 3
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: Art and Artists, gender + 3 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, pageant, parody/spoof, political, satire
    Keyword: Art and Artists, gender, body politics, identity, genderqueer
    Calvin Lively is a photographer and self-proclaimed provocateur in desperate need of an idea for his next installation. Grace, his girlfriend and publicist, and Fin, his best friend and art dealer, are turning up the heat as the deadline approaches. Meanwhile, two eponymous Art Handlers begin to complicate the situation when they become the target of Grace’s unwanted attention. Mrs. Marbleblatt, a widowed...
    Calvin Lively is a photographer and self-proclaimed provocateur in desperate need of an idea for his next installation. Grace, his girlfriend and publicist, and Fin, his best friend and art dealer, are turning up the heat as the deadline approaches. Meanwhile, two eponymous Art Handlers begin to complicate the situation when they become the target of Grace’s unwanted attention. Mrs. Marbleblatt, a widowed patron of the arts, further queers the equation when she takes a prurient interest in Calvin’s work. Dick Pix is a satirical comedy about artistic integrity, gender identity, appropriate behavior, and narcissism in the age of social media.
  • Four and Twenty Draculas by Daniel McCoy
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 7 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, horror, mystery/thriller, parody/spoof, satire
    A single mother must care for her small half-humanoid man-bat; a night of cruising turns into a hook-up where both men must hide from the sun; a group of peasants have just seen lights in the castle, and they are terrified. Meanwhile, the Count is on his way... Four and Twenty Draculas contains a loose adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, several parallel stories of modern day bloodsucking, and a surreal,...
    A single mother must care for her small half-humanoid man-bat; a night of cruising turns into a hook-up where both men must hide from the sun; a group of peasants have just seen lights in the castle, and they are terrified. Meanwhile, the Count is on his way... Four and Twenty Draculas contains a loose adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, several parallel stories of modern day bloodsucking, and a surreal, kaleidoscopic menagerie of odd events. And puppets. Why wouldn't there be puppets?
  • Perfect Teeth by Daniel McCoy
    Recommendations: 5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Genre: dark comedy, drama
    Kyle and Dylan hooked up six months ago. Now they're catching up over drinks, and things have taken a more than awkward turn when an accusation of sexual assault pits both men against each other in a struggle for dignity, status and control.
  • Cleave by Daniel McCoy
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, docudrama/historic, fantasy, horror, mystery/thriller, period
    Still grieving the sudden death of her father, twelve year old Jordan has another problem to deal with: her mom's new boyfriend. But thanks to some extra credit reading for her French history class, and the mentorship of a notorious executioner, Jordan has a rather unorthodox plan for putting things back to normal. Love, loss and guillotines... Sometimes the only way to bring a family back together is to tear it apart.
  • Epimythium by Daniel McCoy
    Recommendations: 1
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    Genre: adaptation, adventure + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, adventure, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy, period
    In 12th century England, an unknown woman penned some of the greatest poetry of her time, influencing generations of writers. Known only by her first name and her fantastical fables, Marie de France’s own story has remained hidden for nine hundred years. In Epimythium, fantasy and reality collide as Marie’s epic tales of romance, betrayal, and deceit are the seed for a new vision of her life and secrets. The...
    In 12th century England, an unknown woman penned some of the greatest poetry of her time, influencing generations of writers. Known only by her first name and her fantastical fables, Marie de France’s own story has remained hidden for nine hundred years. In Epimythium, fantasy and reality collide as Marie’s epic tales of romance, betrayal, and deceit are the seed for a new vision of her life and secrets. The play combines theatre, puppetry, film, and animation to discover the world of Marie de France and share her amazing stories.