Dan Dietz is a playwright and occasional actor living in Austin, Texas. Recent and not-so-recent roles include the Doctor in Death of a Cat, the Speaker in Terminal Hip (Austin Critics Table Award for Best Actor—Comedy), and Santa Ana in Centaur Battle of San Jacinto (Austin Critics Table Award for best Actor—Drama), all produced by Salvage Vanguard Theater. Plays he has written include Americamisfit, tempOdyssey, Tilt Angel, Blind Horses, and Dirigible, and have been produced in Austin, New York, Los Angeles, and points in between. Dietz has been honored with a James A. Michener Fellowship, a Josephine Bay Paul Fellowship, and the Austin Critics Table Award for Best New Play. He is a two-time finalist for the Princess Grace Award and a nominee for the Oppenheimer Award, the Osborn Award, and the ATCA/Steinberg Award. His short plays Trash Anthem and A Bone Close to My Brain were produced at the 2003 and 2004 Humana Festivals of New American Plays, respectively. Trash Anthem received the 2003 Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Dietz is a Resident Company Member of Salvage Vanguard Theater and a Core Member of the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis.

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