Dahn Hiuni
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los angeles, ca 90026
Plays by Dahn Hiuni
About Dahn Hiuni
DAHN HIUNI is a Los Angeles-based playwright. His most recent full-length play SICK is set for its world premiere this June at the 2023 Hollywood Fringe Festival. SICK won the 2020 One City One Pride Playwriting Competition and received a virtual reading. Mr. Hiuni's previous play MURMURS & INCANTATIONS was produced as part of the New York International Fringe Festival (20th Anniversary, 2016) at the historic Soho Playhouse, where it won the Award for Excellence in Playwriting. MURMURS was also presented as an immersive theatre experience in former Chelsea art gallery, Mixed Greens, in 2013. Other one-act plays include ONE MAN SHOW, CALL WAITING, and INTERVIEW. As solo performance artist, Mr. Hiuni has been presented at such venerable New York venues as P.S. 122, Franklin Furnace, Artists Space and Thread Waxing Space. Other performance venues include the Cleveland Performance Art Festival, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Lancaster Museum of Art. His video performance "Twentieth Century Art" is part of the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Mr. Hiuni's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Playbill, and The Dramatist, the magazine of the Dramatists Guild of America, of which he is a proud member. Mr. Hiuni has taught playwriting at The Blank Theater, Woodbury University and New York Public Library. He has also taught at Pratt Institute, School of Visual Arts, Hofstra University, Bucknell University, and at the National Theatre School of Canada. He holds an MFA in performance art and an interdisciplinary PhD in performance studies--both from Penn State. He is adjunct professor at UCLA and Woodbury University.