Dan Hurlin
| Dan Hurlin | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1955 (age 61–62) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Theatre and puppetry |
| Awards |
Alpert Award in the Arts (2004) |
Alpert Award in the Arts (2004)
MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2003)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2002)
New York Dance and Performance award (2001)
Dan Hurlin is an American puppeteer and performance artist.
Performance works include: No(thing so powerful as) Truth (1995); Constance and Ferdinand (1991) with Victoria Marks; Quintland (The Musical) (1992); The Jazz Section (1989) with Dan Froot; and two toy theater pieces, The Day the Ketchup Turned Blue (1997) from the short story by John C. Russell, and Who's Hungry?/West Hollywood (2008) with Dan Froot. His large puppet piece Hiroshima Maiden (2004), with an Obie Award winning score by Robert Een, premiered at St. Ann’s Warehouse and was awarded a UNIMA citation of excellence. Disfarmer (2009), a puppet piece about American photographer Mike Disfarmer, premiered at St. Ann’s Warehouse and is the subject of the 2011 documentary Puppet, by David Soll.
As a performer he has worked with Ping Chong, Janie Geiser, Annie B. Parson & Paul Lazar, and Jeffrey M. Jones, and directed premieres of works by Lisa Kron, Holly Hughes, Dan Froot, John C. Russell and Erik Ehn. Dan Hurlin is a professor of dance composition and puppetry at Sarah Lawrence College and serves on the board of the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH.
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