User:Kenirwin/danstroeh

Dan Stroeh (pronounced STRAY ) is a playwright and actor. He best known for his one-man play it is no desert, an autobiographical work dealing with his struggle with Neurofibromatosis.

Stroeh has been a visiting artist at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, the O’Neill Theatre Playwrights Conference, the Kennedy Center, and the Mark Taper Forum. He is the company playwright for Boston’s Alarm Clock Theatre Company and is a founding member of the Threshold Theatre Project in New York City.

Awards

 * Kennedy Center's 2001 National Student Playwriting Award
 * Samuel French Award
 * Cincinnati Arts Association's 2001 Emerging Artist

Works

 * it is no desert, 2001 (one-man play)
 * With Friends Like These, 2002 (with Sara Adelman)
 * The Fundraiser (monologue)
 * 10 a.m. Signing
 * The Second Advent
 * The Artist’s Way
 *  Law-V-Bow-em (monologue)
 * Her

Bio

 * Grew up in Loveland Ohio
 * "On May 12 he received his bachelor's degree cum laude in theater and creative writing from Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio."
 * "In January of 1997 he was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis, a progressive, genetic disorder of the nervous system that causes tumors to form on the nerves of the body."