Daniel Damiano is an Award-winning Playwright, Actor, Screenwriter, Poet, and Novelist based in Brooklyn, NY. His plays have been performed throughout many areas of the U.S., as well as London, England and Sydney & Melbourne, Australia. His acclaimed play DAY OF THE DOG was published by Broadway Play Publishing in 2018. Other more recent productions of his work include HARMONY PARK ("4 Stars" - Detroit Free Press), THE LEPERS (Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC) and his acclaimed solo plays AMERICAN TRANQUILITY (which has been lauded in both NYC and Washington DC) and his latest, ONE WITH THE CURRENT which premiered in NYC in September 2022. His new play THE WILD BOAR was a 2022 Finalist for Dayton Playhouse's Futurefest and a 2019 Finalist for both the Woodward/Newman Award and the Janet & Bruce Bunch Award. He has been the recipient of the Christopher Brian Wolk Award for Playwriting, in addition to being a 2013 Nominee for the Pushcart Poetry Prize and a Finalist for the 2012 Arts & Letters Prize for Drama. He was also a recent 2022 Finalist for the David A. Einhorn Memorial Playwriting Award.  His debut novel, THE WOMAN IN THE SUN HAT was published in March 2021 through fandango 4 Art House (2021 Seattle Book Review Recommendation). His short story, "The Gift of What For" is included in Palm Circle Press' Short Story Anthology 2021. His poetry book, 104 DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC, was released in September 2021, by fandango 4 Art House. His poetry has been published in Curlew Quarterly, Crooked Teeth Literary Magazine, Newtown Literary Journal, New Voices Anthology, Cloudbank and HotMetal Press. In December 2022, fandango 4 Art House released his second novel, GRAPHIC NATURE. In the Summer of 2022, fandango 4 Art House also released PLAYS BY DANIEL DAMIANO - Volume 1, the first collection of Mr. Damiano's full-length plays ("Harmony Park", "The Golden Year" & "The Dishonorable Discharge of Private Pitts").