We are very lucky and pleased to have Dan Hoyle joining us for our playwriting show, Play On Words (April 20-21, 7:30 pm, Dan Kryston Memorial Theatre). If you buy an advance ticket, you can go to the pre-show reception in the theatre lobby, where he will be milling about chatting everybody up. As for the show itself, he will be performing in at least one of the students’ plays.

Dan Hoyle is an actor, playwright, and journalist currently based in San Francisco. The Real Americans enjoyed a long run at The Marsh in San Francisco, and played Joe’s Pub in New York, The Painted Bride in Philadelphia, The Lensic in Santa Fe, Berkeley Repertory Theater, and The Cleveland Playhouse.

His third solo show, Tings Dey Happen, won the 2007 Will Glickman Award for Best New Play before running five months Off-Broadway at Culture Project, where it was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show. Tings Dey Happen was based on Hoyle’s experiences as a Fulbright Scholar living in the Niger Delta of Nigeria studying oil politics. In October 2009, Hoyle returned to Nigeria to perform the show in five Nigerian cities, sponsored by the U.S. State Department. This tour was filmed by a documentary crew who hope to make it a program for PBS.

This winter, Hoyle will begin work on a new solo project about digital media and the News, commissioned by the Pew Philadelphia Theater Initiative, and he was recently commissioned to write his first play for multiple actors by SF Playhouse. His essays have been featured in Salon, Mother Jones, and Sports Illustrated and he also performs with his father, actor and comedian Geoff Hoyle. Hoyle holds a double degree in Performance Studies and History from Northwestern University. Website: www.danhoyle.com

-Reba