Border People

“A master class.” –New York Times

“A master of his craft. Hoyle is one of our theatrical gems.” –San Francisco Chronicle

“Dan Hoyle’s brilliant portrayals are exactly what we need right now.” –Cecilia Muñoz, immigration advocate and Domestic Policy Council Director in Obama White House

“So transformative and empathetic. Enthralling, sometimes heartbreaking, more often funny. Deeply moving. –San Francisco Examiner

Based on conversations and interviews from the South Bronx housing projects courtyards, Refugee Safe Houses on the Northern Border with Canada, and travels along the Southwestern Border and into Mexico. Eleven monologues of people who live on or across borders both geographic and cultural, an intimate, raw, poignant, funny look at the borders we all negotiate in our everyday lives. Developed with and directed by Charlie Varon.

Dan Hoyle is an actor and playwright whose brand of journalistic theater has been hailed as “riveting, funny and poignant” (New York Times) and “hilarious, moving and very necessary” (Salon). His solo shows EACH AND EVERY THING, THE REAL AMERICANS, TINGS DEY HAPPEN, FLORIDA 2004: THE BIG BUMMER, and CIRCUMNAVIGATOR–all created and premiered at The Marsh Theater in his native San Francisco–have toured the country and overseas including Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater (NYC), Culture Project (NYC), Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Cleveland Playhouse, Mosaic (D.C.), Portland Center Stage, Playmakers Rep (North Carolina), Kolkatta, India, Dublin, Ireland, and a U.S. State Department-sponsored five city tour of Nigeria. As an actor, Hoyle recently appeared in Widowers’ Houses at Aurora Theater Company. His multi actor plays include GAME ON, co-written with Tony Taccone, (TBA award for Outstanding New Play) THE BLOCK (Working Theater, NYC, 2016). He has been an artist-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin and Columbia University’s Heyman Center for Humanities. More info: danhoyle.com