http://danielhirsch.net/journalism daily 0.75 2024-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491668494508-JJZ4V38NXOHS2EG9J01D/image-asset.jpeg Journalism - One Fire in a Real Estate Empire Rife with Issues (Mission Local, 2015) A long form, investigative piece following a fire that displaced 65 people and killed one. Winner of Northern California Society of Professional Journalism Community Reporting Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491667559569-NDQTYPZ2O4J77ECKVA4K/bolditalic.jpg Journalism - I Got Paid to Be an OKCupid Ghostwriter (Bold Italic, 2014) Personal essay detailing my experience as a personal ghostwriter for a strangers online dating persona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491667142137-ZUYQR53NIF15X3O3EOPA/image-asset.jpeg Journalism - Seeing and Looking: An Extra's True Tale of Sex, Love, and Premium Cable Photo by John P. Johnson/HBO, Courtesy Slate.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491669783977-LJJ7VCEEKKR6TFV870QQ/image-asset.jpeg Journalism - R-Rated and Ephemeral: Spinning LGBT History (Mission Local, 2014) Longform feature about efforts (and opposition) to commemorate sites of historic significance to LGBT community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491669157853-X3PNIDE4FWB0EVWHODRG/affordable+housing Journalism - Affordable Housing Construction in Limbo (Mission Local, 2014) In depth analysis of the political and economic hurdles delaying the construction of affordable housing in San Francisco's Mission District. http://danielhirsch.net/about daily 1.0 2024-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1b3d94a8-1930-4f79-ad0d-ea8fc8cede97/Hirsch_headshot_2024.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1565284784729-GJRV0G2MABB59RS1281N/Big+Rick+scene About - A Small Breach in Protocol... MeetCute L.A. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1492446260397-O4CHUQT44P250A8MHFSS/33869173471_ac8603b31b_k.jpg About - Roguish Machine CMU New Works Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1549992231556-GVTQHY1ZFG0Y60N62FGT/35420418763_60028d578a_o.jpg About - ID, Please Tête à Tête Opera Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1492446468329-XCO3XFVD8S6QWHH0HYQS/subtenant1.jpg About - Subtenant Asylum Theatre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1493166646777-R93K7EEKOOMYVPPGSLPZ/photo+from+briefs.jpg About - Last Night at the Cherry Pie Briefs Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1493166945651-XH8M52NASJ4D5RQ22GUQ/33998871205_4ab696bae7_k.jpg About - Roguish Machine CMU New Works Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1492446614098-2GXZ5SKZCAUZZU53XKJZ/24298720491_1206d4b7da_h.jpg About - Streams Playground Festival http://danielhirsch.net/dramatic-writing daily 0.75 2025-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1502c55d-dbe9-4e75-9ca8-fbd2ab763f5f/208x256x2.jpg Theatre - i might delete this later (Full length) Cat has an unusual request of her family: she’d like all the family photos that feature her to be destroyed. The people in her life really, really do not take this request well. What follows is a tragicomedy about family and memory, a Sisyphean quest to reject modern media, a debate over representation and expression, and a exploration into the very nature of seeing and being seen. Developed as part of the Road Theatre’s Under Construction Lab and SlamFest series Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1607713482040-U0QCSAWN1QPZKALI8GKS/cubicles.jpg Theatre - Human Resources (Full length) Kate is having a very rough Monday morning at work. For starters, she’s got a new overly chatty officemate named Alan. Also, she’s realizing that her work in the User System QA team might be totally devoid of meaning. Also, she just found out she might be dying. As the Mondays accumulate, Kate’s existence is upended as Alan worms his way into her life. The bond between this unlikely pair moves from tenuous to surprisingly tender. However, neither can predict how the forces of late-stage, tech-fueled capitalism or Kate’s developing illness might muck up their non-romantic, workplace romance. Selected for the Great Plains Theatre Conference. Staged Reading at InkWell Theater Selected for Red Theater Script Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1565284784729-GJRV0G2MABB59RS1281N/Big+Rick+scene Theatre - A small breach in protocol at Big Rick’s Rockin’ Skydive Academy (Short) In the 60 seconds between jumping out of an airplane and deploying parachutes, plummeting at a terminal velocity of 120 miles-per-hour, four people have much to think about their lives and how those lives will be forever changed when—or if—they get their feet back on the ground. Winner of Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival and published in best of anthology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/66e2a235-ebfd-4ff2-ba76-ff41540aa5e6/richard-sagredo-8GQ5ELnU-rM-unsplash.jpg Theatre - Frogtown: Anaxyrus Boreas (Radio play) First time home buyers Isa and Hannah are thrilled to be moving into their updated Craftsman style bungalow, but a near-Biblical plague of unexpected intruders pushes the couple to really get to know all of their neighbors in this environmental parable of city dwellers learning to share space. Produced by Antaeus Theatre as part the Zip Code Plays https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1607713191694-YH39X18ZW6YUZF4S9GIG/rock-backpack.jpg Theatre - The Sisyphi (Full length) A committee of concerned citizens brainstorm strategies to remove a gigantic rock that has materialized in their town. A scientist becomes too overwhelmed with the inadequacy of language to talk geology. A woman can’t get out of bed due to the world’s exceedingly grim state of affairs — also, there’s a gigantic, invisible boulder on her chest. And, the mythic hero Sisyphus has to roll a boulder up a mountain only to watch it roll back down over and over and over and over again. Through a series of connected, enigmatic vignettes, The Sisyphi asks: when faced with your own futility and the unceasing meaningless of the universe, why bother? Selected for Parsnip Ship Play Club Workshopped at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville Finalist Kitchen Dog New Play Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491672201081-D3ON0YIRI7W4OIPQHOMZ/Luddite.jpg Theatre - Roguish Machine (Full length) A new technology is poised to make you obsolete. A mysterious folk hero named Ned Ludd has come to town plotting this machine’s destruction. Do you join Ludd, grab a hammer, and swing? Or, do you wait and see how this whole Industrialization thing shakes out? Inspired by the Industrial Revolution’s Luddite Uprisings as well as the politics of our own self-driving Uber age, Roguish Machine tells the story of two siblings whose fates diverge wildly with the arrival of a newfangled, mechanical invention. Who gets left behind, and who gets unforeseen opportunities, when technology marches inevitably forward? Workshop production at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama New Works Series. Directed by Wesleigh Gates. Shortlisted Neukom Institute Literary Arts Playwriting Prize https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491672825377-GL4Z4MI3HYYLWK78QCVB/guillaume_waves.jpg Theatre - ID, Please (Opera Libretto, 3 singers) ID, Please takes place at the politically fraught, liminal space of a border crossing of an unnamed country. In this collage-like chamber opera, a border agent questions an endless flow of travelers— represented by just two singers. Switching between sung interrogations scenes and psychological arias, the opera both exposes and occludes a set of characters’ internal lives as they attempt to flee their country of origin, return home, get through their banal bureaucratic day jobs, and more. Music composed by Soosan Lolavar. Premiered as part of CoOpera at Pittsburgh Opera. Directed by Stephen M. Eckert. International premiere at the opera festival Tête à Tête https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491673929713-K5TJRGGO7I0PEMUMMGVR/shark.jpg Theatre - Oceanus: a play about the internet's tubes (Full length, Flexible Cast) When a mysterious accident severs a piece of the internet’s infrastructure— a “submarine” cable resting on the ocean’s floor — the world wide web slows to an excruciating crawl and consequences big and small ripple across the planet. Happy marriages crumble, global commerce falls to its knees, deep sea sharks philosophize, and a submarine delves to the center of the earth in panoramic play about myth, technology, and the vulnerable tissue of human connection. Developed at Custom Made Theatre as part of Undiscovered Works Series in San Francisco, directed by Rebecca Longworth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491674098180-W25AF2II09FL97UKK3MS/image-asset.jpeg Theatre - Subtenant (Full length) Rick can’t get into his dead son’s computer. Sasha can’t get Rick out of her apartment. Together, these two—along with the emotionally withholding computer that comes to life before Rick’s grief-weary eyes—form an unlikely household. Both people wish they knew more about the departed roommate and son that brought them together—though Sasha may not be telling Rick everything she knows about the young man’s last days. Premiered at Asylum Theatre of Las Vegas, directed by Sarah O'Connell http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog daily 0.75 2026-03-11 http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2026/3/11/selected-for-chalk-rep monthly 0.5 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/cdbb8762-423b-4ce8-9b8c-d8b7995a99e2/chalk+rep.png Updates - Selected for Chalk Rep Writers Group - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2025/10/22/iama-theater-presents-a-reading-of-beloved-dave monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/eeb4442c-e9c6-4d05-bcdd-e93390512669/beloved+dave+promo+image+.jpg Updates - IAMA Theater Presents a Reading of BELOVED DAVE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/e3639ec7-ce2f-4941-a7f4-3e4cebbce091/beloved+dave+reading+IAMA+cast+image.jpg Updates - IAMA Theater Presents a Reading of BELOVED DAVE - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2025/10/22/best-little-boy-wins-at-film-invasion-la monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/4d6b63d6-b300-4790-b97a-32d8356daffe/film+invasion+photo.jpg Updates - BEST LITTLE BOY Wins Grand Jury Award at Film Invasion LA - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2025/10/22/finalist-for-anarchist-united-film-grant monthly 0.5 2025-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/57bff76b-b068-4dc2-b659-e503dce8a41a/resident+header+image.jpg Updates - Finalist for Anarchist United Film Grant - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2024/10/29/selected-for-iama-theatres-emerging-playwrights-lab monthly 0.5 2024-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/154a6432-a3bc-4974-b02f-0efd3ade4925/iama+cohort+image.jpg Updates - Selected for IAMA Theatre's Emerging Playwrights Lab - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2024/9/10/best-little-boy-a-cordillera-international-film-festival-semi-finalist monthly 0.5 2024-09-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/bfb51490-cec3-4ad1-92a4-5035f937ef11/cordillera-black.png Updates - Best Little Boy a Cordillera International Film Festival Semi-Finalist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2024/7/16/best-little-boy-black-list-recommended monthly 0.5 2024-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1721103480511-N94LM1ADHP0QBPNOI60B/Black+list+header.jpg Updates - Best Little Boy Black List Recommended - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/d85d7ce8-9bf7-465e-8b97-74fed86eda1b/blb+vampire.png Updates - Best Little Boy Black List Recommended - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2024/3/29/oneill-semi-finalist monthly 0.5 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/c1665167-1d52-437b-ab1b-801ca290f28f/eugene-oneill-theater-center-queens.jpeg Updates - O'Neill Semi-finalist - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2024/3/6/in-residence-at-kimmel-harding-nelson-center-for-the-arts monthly 0.5 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/f725a4a3-6d42-4244-a484-359866629730/khnbrickst.jpg Updates - In Residence at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2024/2/21/i-might-delete-this-later-at-road-theatre monthly 0.5 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/530ddc49-a3f3-4699-b818-98b6e6e64ef5/IMDTL_promo+image.jpg Updates - I MIGHT DELETE THIS LATER at Road Theatre - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2023/6/12/new-play-development-for-road-theatres-under-construction-4 monthly 0.5 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/83b95621-7b69-45f0-8111-4f9cd4adb980/road+theater+promo+image.jpg Updates - New play development for Road Theatre's Under Construction 4 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2023/6/12/human-resources-at-inkwell-theater monthly 0.5 2023-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/a3833ad9-c3e4-4ead-9c30-76d9c39e5253/HUMAN-RESOURCES-INKWELL.jpeg Updates - HUMAN RESOURCES at InkWell Theater - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2022/7/25/big-rick-at-city-theater-summer-shorts monthly 0.5 2022-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1658768744155-HXCNWR8YU3XUIQPP8OUE/big+rick_city+shorts.png Updates - BIG RICK at City Theatre Summer Shorts - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2022/7/25/sir-amp-i-selected-for-orchard-project-episodic-lab monthly 0.5 2022-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1658767723296-ML4I0TQZZRVYUJVC97F2/orchard+episodic+lab.png Updates - SIR & I selected for Orchard Project Episodic Lab - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2021/12/7/new-radio-play-for-antaeus-theatres-zip-code-plays monthly 0.5 2021-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1638939068463-OMJHMDJZ3D48EQXY2RIA/Zip-Code-90039-min.jpeg Updates - Radio Play for Antaeus Theatre's Zip Code Plays Out Now - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2021/9/28/upcoming-podcast-commission-for-antaeus-theatres-zipcode-plays monthly 0.5 2021-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1632871537741-8GNIPDAA7FWK4LS3CFDL/Zip-Code-plays-announcement.jpeg Updates - Upcoming Podcast Commission for Antaeus Theatre's Zipcode Plays - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2021/9/28/human-resources-at-great-plains-theatre-conference monthly 0.5 2021-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1632870577708-Z99Y3IK8FV2NC0XAX274/gptc-brocure-min.jpg Updates - Human Resources at Great Plains Theatre Conference - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2020/12/7/oltp923jppfi3lwp3fd79fflnq9dyx monthly 0.5 2021-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1607403073546-SOQ0J25GWRU901E1JAV9/me+and+silhouette+craft+project Updates - 2020 was not all bad Me and my shadow, a quarantine craft project. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2019/8/29/big-rick-wins-at-samuel-french-oob monthly 0.5 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1567108521463-VZ6CFILX0XRKEK4OEY3U/sam-french-victory-win.jpeg Updates - "Big Rick" Wins at Sam French https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1567108970403-CT3Z3XXNTEMS91TUPNLT/sam-french-cast-photo.jpg Updates - "Big Rick" Wins at Sam French http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/samuel-french monthly 0.5 2019-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1565283810396-9VG52AK6PVMRJ06C6PS1/Samuel+French Updates - Sam French Off Off Broadway Festival! http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2019/4/4/towards-tomorrow-island-pea monthly 0.5 2019-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1554397506498-FMQYRH4WBCQI36XK30TR/playground_tomorrow-islands.jpg Updates - Towards Tomorrow Island Gets Full Length Commission http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/theatricum-botanicum- monthly 0.5 2019-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1565287524946-O7SAWGR3MELQQKKR9PKY/theatricum-botanicum.jpg Updates - Sisyphi Heads to Theatricum Botanicum http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2019/8/8/met-cute monthly 0.5 2019-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1565284784729-GJRV0G2MABB59RS1281N/Big+Rick+scene Updates - Met Cute! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1565288093677-WLIG8OV5VE5MZ9C7V961/Meet+Cute_May+2+2019_Thymele+arts_Annie+Lesser_WEB+RES-6143.jpg Updates - Met Cute! (Photo by Annie Lesser) http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2019/4/30/roguish-machine-shortlisted-for-neukom-literary-arts-award monthly 0.5 2019-11-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1491672201081-D3ON0YIRI7W4OIPQHOMZ/Luddite.jpg Updates - Roguish Machine Shortlisted for Neukom Literary Arts Award http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2019/4/4/power-in-a-union monthly 0.5 2019-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1554396778541-I4U6FGH02TO3YYVCECHY/wga-card.jpg Updates - Power in a Union http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2019/1/15/sheepish-year-end-awards-close-call-round-up monthly 0.5 2021-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1493171659246-ZP335K6PSBQCCKX932P1/image-asset.jpeg Updates - Sheepish Year-End Awards Close Call Round Up - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2019/2/12/the-sisyphi-table-read-with-trap-street monthly 0.5 2019-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1549992878322-BD2VRS77VV3QVC24D5R5/trap-street-reading.jpg Updates - The Sisyphi Table Read with Trap Street http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2019/2/12/new-member-of-playground-la-writers-pool monthly 0.5 2019-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1549993954011-GULOAF8GUMRD8HQFPV0U/playground-program.jpg Updates - New Member of Playground LA Writers Pool http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2017/11/20/sheepish-wins-alfred-p-sloan-screenwriting-prize monthly 0.5 2019-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1511189865060-CEL90B9DZ9RDFFF2N3AZ/scienceandfilm_sheepish Updates - Sheepish wins Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Prize http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/id-please-press-round-up monthly 0.5 2019-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1549992231556-GVTQHY1ZFG0Y60N62FGT/35420418763_60028d578a_o.jpg Updates - ID, Please Press Round Up http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2017/6/6/id-please-to-join-tte-tte-opera-festival-in-london monthly 0.5 2017-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1496757636646-H1Z99KY1WOMXJH8NITRN/teteatete Updates - ID, Please to join Tête à Tête opera festival in London Tête à Tête http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2017/4/13/roguish-machine-opens-at-carnegie-mellon-new-works-festival monthly 0.5 2017-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1493167728559-G5VDGUKE1IW5LG0BX04L/image-asset.png Updates - Roguish Machine opens at Carnegie Mellon New Works Festival http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2017/4/25/id-please-premieres-as-part-of-cmus-coopera-festival-with-press-coverage monthly 0.5 2017-04-26 http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/2017/4/25/cherry-pie-opens-at-briefs-festival-gets-shout-out-in-american-theater-magazine monthly 0.5 2017-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1493170039089-M7617BC4CXO2IG4B71WA/image-asset.png Updates - Cherry Pie opens at Briefs Festival, gets shout out in American Theater Magazine http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/tag/theater monthly 0.5 http://danielhirsch.net/new-blog/tag/film monthly 0.5 http://danielhirsch.net/dramatic-writing-1 daily 0.75 2024-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/18992ce6-b776-4bb8-9860-ca88f9a33042/fencing+pic.jpeg Film - Best Little Boy (Feature, Comedic Thriller) At an elite prep school, a gay misfit obsesses/crushes over his new school’s seemingly perfect, and likely closeted, golden boy. When one of their classmates is killed after a freak accident, he suspects the object of his desire/loathing could be a violent psychopath— albeit a very cute one. Black List Recommended https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1607712540757-FASE1N7LROSC6OJ3WXEA/christmas%2Blady.jpg Film - Past & Presents (Feature, Holiday Rom Com) When the workaholic manager of her family’s failing department store makes a Christmas wish to revive the store to its glamorous past, an enchanted elevator sends her to the 1960s. To return to the present, she must uncover the magic behind the store’s lost glory; in the process, she’ll also find a surprising new love. Sold to MarVista Entertainment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/ffd25ce2-ebed-4c94-965b-a6cdeb560401/suits-sf.jpg Film - Sir & I (Pilot, 30 minute, Dark Comedy) When an adrift yet ambitious twenty-something takes a gig economy job as a mysterious European emigre’s butler —yes, like actual butler —the two form a toxic, codependent and not not gay relationship that will have both of them emotionally and financially extorting the other and exorcising long-held secrets. Selected for the Orchard Project Episodic Lab https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1493171659246-ZP335K6PSBQCCKX932P1/image-asset.jpeg Film - Sheepish (Feature, Comedy) When endocrinologist Dr. Peter Woolinsky publishes his study on ovine sexually dimorphic nuclei, he has no idea the trouble it will cause. But with PETA, international tennis stars, and the Conservative Christian Right show up outside his office to protest, he quickly learns that the subject of his research — so-called "gay sheep" — is not as innocuous as he once thought. Winner Carnegie Mellon/Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award Finalist Tribeca Student Grand Jury Prize Second Rounder Austin International Film Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1492893847378-S1DXU1VMIMRY1A0ZK73T/image-asset.jpeg Film - Traitorous (TV Pilot) Based on the life of technology pioneer Robert Noyce, "Traitorous" depicts the birth of a new industry, the tumultuous transformation of a community, and the break-ups and betrayals that preceded one of the 20th Century’s most important technological breakthroughs: the microchip. Second place winner of the Carnegie Mellon/Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award. http://danielhirsch.net/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-28 http://danielhirsch.net/dramatic-writing-portfolio daily 0.75 2022-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1607712540757-FASE1N7LROSC6OJ3WXEA/christmas%2Blady.jpg Dramatic Writing Portfolio - Past & Presents (Feature film, Holiday Rom Com) When the workaholic manager of her family’s failing department store makes a Christmas wish to revive the store to its glamorous past, an enchanted elevator sends her to the 1960s. To return to the present, she must uncover the magic behind the store’s lost glory; in the process, she’ll also find a surprising new love. Sold to MarVista Entertainment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1565284784729-GJRV0G2MABB59RS1281N/Big+Rick+scene Dramatic Writing Portfolio - A small breach in protocol at Big Rick’s Rockin’ Skydive Academy (Short play, existential comedy) In the 60 seconds between jumping out of an airplane and deploying parachutes, plummeting at a terminal velocity of 120 miles-per-hour, four people have much to think about their lives and how those lives will be forever changed when—or if—they get their feet back on the ground. Winner of Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival and published in best of anthology. http://danielhirsch.net/teaching daily 0.75 2023-01-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57a7bd67cd0f687aa22bfe46/1659718889548-7W90LSROERG64GNGMZVS/Hillman+Feature+Writing_Fall2021_copy.png Teaching - Make it stand out A Zoom workshop with Hillman Grad Productions. (I’m top middle.) http://danielhirsch.net/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dbbca5e4b090699000a2b6/1408024912028-NID23B61L4HJ0B3VYYKL/image-asset.png Read Me Photography by Julia Robbs