Dan LeFranc worked on several plays and screenplays. His play Troublemaker was commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre and was produced there in 2013. His play The Big Meal premiered at ATC (Chicago), ran Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons and made its UK premiere in 2014. It has been nominated for the Lortel, Drama Desk and Joseph Jefferson Awards for Best New Play and named Time Out Chicago’s "#1 Play of 2011." Other plays include Sixty Miles to Silver Lake (SoHo Rep, P73, NYC, 2010 New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award), Origin Story, Bruise Easy and Night Surf. LeFranc has written for the Showtime television drama The Affair, which received a WGA Award Nomination for Best New Series and won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. He sometimes teaches at the Yale School of Drama and is the playwright-in-residence of Playwrights Horizons.
Dan LeFranc
Studios
Alexander
Dan LeFranc worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…