Dan Harder - Writer
Dan Harder is a writer of many disciplines. He is an award-winning playwright, children’s book author, and poet. His plays, monologues, and an opera have been performed at The Marsh, Actors’ Theater, Exit, and Bannam Place Theater (San Francisco), La MAMA ETC and Abingdon Theater Co. (NYC), Paramount Theater (Oakland, CA – premiere of opera, Zipperz), Gallery Players (McMinnville, OR), The Western Stage (Salinas, CA), Company One (Hartford, Conn.), Throckmorten Theater, (Mill Valley, CA) Marin Civic Auditorium (Marin Symphony performance of Zipperz).
He has published three books of poetry: Rave (Back Alley Press, Santa Cruz, 1983), Generous Misgivings (Studio 301, San Francisco, 1985), and Askew: Found and Lost in the Almost South of France (Pince-Nez Press – chosen by Oulipo to be included in their collection of important modern works at the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, France), two photo-essay books: San Francisco Points of View, and France (Graphic Arts Center Publishing), and two children’s books: A Child’s California (Westwinds Press) and Colliding With Chris (Hyperion), winner of the Children’s Choice Award by the International Reading Association. In 2008, Dan wrote the libretto for the soaPOPera Zipperz with composer Nathaniel Stookey which premiered at the Oakland East Bay Symphony and is making its way to other venues around the world.
His articles and features appear frequently in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, other newspapers, magazines, and journals. His commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio as well as other radio programs. Dan’s past includes working as a cowboy, a sculptor, a jazz drummer, a translator and crepe chef in France, pulling chain in an Oregon lumber-mill, and owning a restaurant. A native of Los Angeles and graduate of U. C. Berkeley, Dan currently lives in San Francisco and where he is currently the Head of the English Department at the French American School.
See more about Dan Harder at http://danharder.com/
He has published three books of poetry: Rave (Back Alley Press, Santa Cruz, 1983), Generous Misgivings (Studio 301, San Francisco, 1985), and Askew: Found and Lost in the Almost South of France (Pince-Nez Press – chosen by Oulipo to be included in their collection of important modern works at the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, France), two photo-essay books: San Francisco Points of View, and France (Graphic Arts Center Publishing), and two children’s books: A Child’s California (Westwinds Press) and Colliding With Chris (Hyperion), winner of the Children’s Choice Award by the International Reading Association. In 2008, Dan wrote the libretto for the soaPOPera Zipperz with composer Nathaniel Stookey which premiered at the Oakland East Bay Symphony and is making its way to other venues around the world.
His articles and features appear frequently in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, other newspapers, magazines, and journals. His commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio as well as other radio programs. Dan’s past includes working as a cowboy, a sculptor, a jazz drummer, a translator and crepe chef in France, pulling chain in an Oregon lumber-mill, and owning a restaurant. A native of Los Angeles and graduate of U. C. Berkeley, Dan currently lives in San Francisco and where he is currently the Head of the English Department at the French American School.
See more about Dan Harder at http://danharder.com/
