Dan LeFranc

Playwrights Horizons: The Big Meal (Drama Desk and Lortel nominations). Other Off-Broadway: Sixty Miles to Silver Lake (Soho Rep./Page 73, New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award). Regional: Troublemaker, or the Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright (Berkeley Rep); Bruise Easy (American Theater Company); The Big Meal (American Theater Company, Joseph Jefferson Award, Time Out Chicago #1 Play of the Year). International: The Big Meal (UK, Stockholm, Shanghai). TV: “The Affair” (Showtime; Golden Globe, Best Drama; Writers Guild Award nom.), Steve McQueen’s “Codes of Conduct” (HBO). Residencies: Sundance Theatre Lab, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi, Jaw West, Mellon Foundation Playwright-In-Residence, Playwrights Horizons 2013-16. Alumnus: New Dramatists, SohoRep. Writer/Director Lab, MCC Writers’ Group, SPACE at Ryder Farm’s Working Farm. Board member: Page 73. Instructor: Yale School of Drama.

• “A life-in-overdrive comic drama. Dan LeFranc’s snappy dialogue captures the tumultuous tenor of family gatherings. THE CAST IS SUPERB.”

  — Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

• “INTIMATE AND EXHILARATING. The expert ensemble make their merry-go-round of characters feel both universal and tenderly specific.”

  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker

• “Packed with humanity and humor, "The Big Meal" dishes up laughs and tears. Sam Gold is in his element.”

  — Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News

• “AMBITIOUS AND IMPRESSIVE. You will be amazed.”

  — David Cote, Time Out New York