Dan Hoyle: The Real Americans

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A Research Institute for Arts and Humanities Event

This event is part of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities Public Lectures and Events series

Speaker

Dan Hoyle
Professor Owen Sheers

Speaker's Biography

Dan Hoyle is an actor and writer now based in Oakland, CA. His brand of journalistic theater has been hailed as "riveting, funny and poignant" (New York Times) and "hilarious, moving and very necessary" (Salon). His solo shows EACH AND EVERY THING, THE REAL AMERICANS, TINGS DEY HAPPEN, FLORIDA 2004: THE BIG BUMMER, and CIRCUMNAVIGATOR--which all premiered at The Marsh in his native San Francisco--have toured the country and overseas including The Public Theater, Culture Project, AS220 (Providence, RI), Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, Mosaic Theater Company (Washington, D.C.), Portland Center Stage, Playmakers Repertory Company, Painted Bride (Philadelphia), The Lensic (Santa Fe, NM), The Park in Kolkata, India, and a five city tour of Nigeria.

Hoyle has been recognized with many awards, including the Will Glickman, Prize of Hope, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, TBA, and Lucille Lortel (Nomination), been supported by grants from the Edgerton Foundation, the Pew Theater Initiative, the Fleishhacker Foundation, the Zellerbach Foundation, and been commissioned by Aurora Theater, First Person Arts, and San Francisco Playhouse and The Working Theater. He holds a double degree in Performance Studies and History from Northwestern University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria in 2005-2006. He has performed and led workshops at many universities including Columbia, Stanford, and NYU.

As an actor, Hoyle is currently in Aurora Theater's production of Widowers' Houses, and he recently appeared Off-Broadway in Samantha Chanse's FRUITING BODIES at The Sheen Center (The Claque). He has been featured in several web comedy series, playing everything from a struggling tech entrepreneur to a guy named Skeezy Steve.

His multi-actor plays include GAME ON (2014), co-written with Tony Taccone, which won the TBA award for Outstanding New Play, THE BLOCK (2016), which had a critically acclaimed World Premiere Off-Broadway (Working Theater), and GROW (2016), about growers in the cannabis industry, which was produced by Mendocino College in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California. In 2016-2017, he was an artist-in-residence at the Heyman Center for Humanities at Columbia University working on a new piece of solo journalistic theater BORDERS/NO BORDERS. In April-May 2018, he will be an artist-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin and perform at the Samuel Beckett Theater.

From: 2 May 2018, 7:30 p.m.
To: 2 May 2018, 9:30 p.m.
Location: Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PZ, Swansea

Award-winning American playwright and performer Dan Hoyle spent 100 days traveling through small-town America. Living out of his van, he found himself sharing meals and conversations with union coal miners, rural drug dealers, anti-war Veterans, and closeted gay creation theory experts, among others. Hoyle sought to see the world through their eyes, and found himself at ground zero of our country’s growing economic inequality and polarized politics.

Two Obama terms and 350 performances in a dozen cities later, this show, a wonderful piece of journalistic theatre , is back. Why? Because Donald Trump has made it all wildly relevant again. Come sit with the characters that made 'The Real Americans' a runaway hit. With additional material based on travels in Summer 2016 to reconnect with some of the people that inspired the original show.

“Dan Hoyle’s smart, entertaining, funny, insightful, and surprising show...is compassionate and ultimately hopeful, without being soft at all.”
The New Yorker

“Impressive, hilarious, moving and provocative. Beneath the masterful humor, a rich texture of human connections asserts itself.”
San Francisco Chronicle

Swansea University Centenary Lecture Series
Curated and introduced by Professor in Creativity, Owen Sheers

Contact: Matthew Hughes (Email: m.t.hughes@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792604808

Website: https://www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk/en/performances.php?id=57726

Event created by: m.t.hughes