Dan Noonan

Playwright

Writing Full Length Comedy and Drama

Dan Noonan is based in Illinois in the USA.  He was born with severe hemophilia. As a person living with several chronic health conditions, Dan likes to have characters with chronic health conditions in his plays, preferring a smart-ass cripple to a brooding leading man any day of the week.

Dan’s play Set Up, about a diabetic and a severe depressive on a blind date, was produced by TheatreBAM Chicago in Lakeview and was highly recommended by both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader. Set Up was also produced at the Alleyway Theatre in New York.

Dan’s play Out Among the Dragons was produced by After Midnight in Evanston and was also highly recommended by both the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Reader. Out Among the Dragons was workshopped by Victory Gardens Theater and was a part of Stage Left’s Leapfest.

Dan’s play Blue Over You was produced by Best Medicine Repertory Theatre in Washington D.C. and by Spot On Company in Evanston, IL.

Dan has had staged readings of his plays at several Chicago theaters: The Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago Dramatists, Steep Theatre, Stage Left and Circle Theatre. Dan has won the Neil Simon New Play Competition; the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition; and the Agnes Nixon Playwrighting Competition. Dan was a finalist in the Dayton Playhouse FutureFest, B Street Theater New Comedies Festival, The Three Cat Productions Chicago New Works Festival, the Henrico Theatre One-Act Playwrighting Competition, the Dionysia New Play Competition and the SART Repertory Theatre Playwrighting Festival. Dan was a semifinalist in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwright’s Conference, Inkslinger Playwriting Competition, Ukiah Comedy Playwrighting Competition and the Chesterfield Screenwriters Competition. Dan also received an Honorable Mention in the New Works of Merit Playwriting Competition 2015 and The Writer’s Digest Competition 2018.

Dan’s play Bountiful Gifts was published by Scripts for Stage. Dan has a B.A. in theater and political science from Boston College and a M.A. in theater from Northwestern University. Dan currently resides in Evanston with his wife and three sons.

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