Daniel Reitz

Daniel Reitz is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York, and has been a Resident Playwright at New Dramatists since 2005. He is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre. His plays include Turnabout, Studies for a Portrait, Rules of the Universe, Fall Forward, Chat, Lowlife, Perfect Evening, Three Sisters and Urban Folk Tales, and Napoleon in Exile. Daniel is the recipient of a Lippmann Family “New Frontier” Award, a NYFA fellowship, a commission from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a New York Innovative Theatre Award, and a Drama-Logue Award. Other honors include residencies at the Edward Albee Foundation, the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (Scotland), the MacDowell Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Corporation of Yaddo. Dan’s plays have been published by Smith & Kraus, New York Theatre Experience, United Stages, and Playscripts, Inc., and have been developed and produced at theaters including Mark Taper Forum, the Joseph Papp Public Theater, Manhattan Class Company, Naked Angels, New York Stage & Film, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Sitelines Festival, and Off-West End in London. His screenplays include Urbania, his feature film adaptation of his play, Urban Folk Tales, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won “Best Film” in LA, Philadelphia, Provincetown, and San Francisco festivals prior to being released by Lionsgate Films. He has also written and directed several short films, which have been screened at festivals in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Asia.