BIO

THEATRE
 Dan has been active in San Francisco Bay Area theatre since 1995 as a both a playwright and performer. His  most recent Solo Performance piece, Kingdom of Not, premiered at the San Francisco Fringe Festival where it won “Best Dramatic Solo,” and had its New York City debut in a run at the Cherry Lane Theatre where it was nominated for a 2007 New York City “IT” (Innovative Theatre) Award for “Outstanding Solo Performance.” Previous theatre pieces include Up From the Ground, “(Best of the San Francisco Fringe” an “SF Bay Guardian Goldie Award,” two “Rosenstein Upstage/Downstage Awards” and a “Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Award” nomination for “Best Solo Performance.”)   Salvador Dali Talks to the Animals (three SF Bay Guardian Upstage/Downstage Awards, Backstage West “Garland Award” nomination), The Pilgrim Project (Bay Area Theatre Critics’ Circle Award for “Best Original Script”) An Impersonation of Angels, and There Be Monsters!

Dan studied with solo performance in SF with Ann Galjour and Grace Walcott, and was selected for the Solo Mio Festival’s “Best of Writer’s Who Act.” He has appeared at the EXIT Theatre, Climate Theatre, The Marsh, Venue 9, Studio For, Studio Valencia, the Speakeasy, The Field, and The Milk Bar and in NYC at the WestBeth Theatre and Cherry Lane Theatre.

FILM
A is a graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Film School, his science fiction short “DOT” won awards in several international film festivals including the Marburg International Festival (Germany), Christchurch Film Festival (New Zealand), School of Visual Arts: Short Film Search (NYC), and was shown many times on the USA Cable network cult program “Night Flight.” He has worked as a script consultant for film producer, Prudence Farrow.  As a filmmaker, he is a recipient of a Jerome Foundation/NEA Grant, a Helena Rubenstein Grant, and an Iowa Arts Council Grant.

Dan has acted in, and contributed material to, numerous videos by the legendary underground film directors George and Mike Kuchar, including George’s Secrets of the Shadow World, (which included excerpts from Dan’s performance piece There Be Monsters!) and premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2000.  He was the subject of a video profile by George titled The Gifted Goon and he has been a guest filmmaker at the San Francisco Art Institute for George’s film production class. Dan is honored to have been selected by Mike Kuchar to interview him for the director commentary track for the commercial DVD release of Mike’s seminal experimental classic science fiction film Sins of the Fleshipoids (1965).

Dan’s Film of Andy Kaufman
In January, 1978 High School Senior, Dan Carbone, announced to his Theatre Arts class in Connecticut that he would go to Los Angeles during the school’s winter vacation and make a film of a movie star as his entry in an upcoming school talent show.

Dan somehow managed to connect with perhaps the only person in Hollywood at the time that would be all too willing to accommodate him – Andy Kaufman.  This resulted in a six-minute, Super 8 Sound film of Andy creating a typical crazed “show” with his friends backstage in his dressing room after performing on a CBS variety show.  Ironically, upon return to Connecticut the resulting, “What the hell was that?” ruckus was ultimately rejected by the highly disappointed high school drama teacher (and this for a high school imitation “Saturday Night Live” review!) and thus never was shown in public in its totality until a recent 2007 premier in San Francisco (though Andy’s girlfriend, Lynne Margulies, had previously shown excerpts at the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles for an Andy tribute show).