His father, Neil Kitrosser is brother of Martin Miles Kitrosser. He cowrote the screenplay for Whe The Animals which premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2018, winning the NEXT: Innovator Award, Best Narrative at OutFest 2018 and is nomi- nated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards and a G L A D Award. His plays include TAR BABY (First Fringe Award, Edinburgh Fringe, and an Amnesty International Citation for Excellence), Dead Special Crabs and The Mumblings. He is currently working on the screen adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel Searchingfor Caleb and his play Svetlana! Svetlana! wil premiere at Bag nBaggage Theatre in September of 2020! Dan was also the resident storteller for CentralPark and Bryant Park for much of the 2000s, and is the Artistic Director of Writopia Lab's Worldwide Plays Festival, afestival of plays written by young playwrights from al over the world, now in its 10th year. He received his MFA from The New School for Drama in 2014, where he i s now on faculty. Dan is the 2018 Peter Shaffer Award Winner, a 2016 TimeWarner 150 Fellow, a 2014 Sundance Screenwriting Fellow, a 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Playwriting Fellow, a 2015 TerraNOVA Collective Groundbreaker, a Maryland Film- makers Fellow and for his writing of TAR BABY, Dan received the Fringe First Award ofr Playwriting at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and a Special Citation from Am- nyest International's Freedom of Expression Awards.