Dan Giles (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter from Massachusetts. He is a recent alumnus of The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program, the Filmmakers’ Workshop at New York Stage & Film, and Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre. He is a 2026 Resident Artist at The Cell Theatre.
 
His plays include The Charioteer (upcoming at The Cell Theatre), The Pittsburgh Free Press (Lee Strasberg Institute/NYU), Mike Pence Sex Dream (Ensemble Studio Theatre, First Floor Theater), 1969: The Second Man (Next Door at New York Theatre Workshop), How You Kiss Me Is Not How I Like To Be Kissed (Haven Theatre), and Breeders (New Light Theater Project, Great Plains Theatre Commons).
 
He’s a recipient of the Clifford Odets Ensemble Commission from Lee Strasberg/NYU, a NYSCA Support for Artists grant, the Alfred P. Sloan Screenwriting Award, the New Light New Voices Award, and the American College Theater Festival’s Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting.
 
He has been a finalist for Ingram New Works at Nashville Rep, Lighthouse Works, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Pipeline, The Lark, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the Playwrights Center; a semifinalist for the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator at Rattlestick, the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, and the Princess Grace Award; and an honorable mention for the Relentless Award.
 
He is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in English) and Carnegie Mellon School of Drama (MFA).

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