Dan Takacs is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, director, and public school drama teacher from Oberlin, Ohio. His original plays have been seen at The Riant Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, and Boston Playwright's Theatre, and he has directed in Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, and in Boston, where he received his MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University, with a concentration in playwriting and directing. Dan won the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for his play "The Piteous Life and Tragical Death of Steve the Intern," the Peter Honegger Prize and the Theatre Network of Texas Production of Original Plays Award for his play "An Institution," and a won the OANO Award for directing “Know Abuse.” Favorite directing projects include "The Millennials...
Dan Takacs is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, director, and public school drama teacher from Oberlin, Ohio. His original plays have been seen at The Riant Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, and Boston Playwright's Theatre, and he has directed in Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, and in Boston, where he received his MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University, with a concentration in playwriting and directing. Dan won the Frank Moffett Mosier Fellowship for Works in Heightened Language for his play "The Piteous Life and Tragical Death of Steve the Intern," the Peter Honegger Prize and the Theatre Network of Texas Production of Original Plays Award for his play "An Institution," and a won the OANO Award for directing “Know Abuse.” Favorite directing projects include "The Millennials" (CPT), "The 39 Steps" (Chagrin Valley Little Theatre), and "The Adventurous Adventuress" (Dobama). Dan lives with his wife, Linda, his daughter Greta, and the twins, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.