Dan LeFranc’s plays include Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, Origin Story, Bruise Easy, Night Surf, In The Labyrinth, The Big Meal, The Fishbone Fables, Backyard, Kill The Keepers, and Catgut. The world premiere of Sixty Miles to Silver Lake was produced this winter by Page 73 Productions and Soho Rep, directed by Anne Kauffman. The Studio Theater in Washington DC will produce Sixty Miles this September. Dan’s work has been seen or developed across the country at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Vineyard Theater, MCC, The Kennedy Center, Sundance Theatre Institute, American Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, ArsNova, Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, The Magic Theater, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Perishable Theater, foolsFury, Babel Theatre Project, Kitchen Dog Theater, Circle X Theater, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, UCSB Summer Theater Lab, and the Page 73 Summer Residency at Yale, among others. Dan is a member of New Dramatists, the MCC Playwrights Coalition, and a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. He is the recipient of the John C. Russell Fellowship in Playwriting, the Weston Prize in Playwriting, the Whitfield Cook Award, and commissions from Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, Perseverance Theater, Catalyst Theater Company, and Emory College in Atlanta. A graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Brown University, Dan served as visiting faculty in Literary Arts at Brown and head playwriting instructor of the Brown/Trinity Rep Consortium. Sixty Miles to Silver Lake is published by Samuel French and his short play, Hippie Van Gumdrop is published in The Backstage Book of New American Short Plays 2005, edited by Craig Lucas. Dan was born and raised in Southern California.