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Dan Souza is a theater/film artist originally from Cape Cod, currently based in Brooklyn, NY.

He has worked with the Lyric Stage Company (Boston), the Secret Theater (Queens), and the Cotuit Center for the Arts (Cape Cod). Dan is a graduate of the British American Drama Academy (BADA) London Theatre Program. Some of his most influential professors include Ellen Newman (BADA), Mick Barnfather (BADA), Dmitry Troyanovsky (Brandeis), and Brandon Green (Brandeis).

In August 2021 Dan presented his first play, An Experience with God and My Father: A Divine Comedy before a small audience in Nantucket. He is actively developing new scripts for stage and screen. His writing explores the way childhood trauma can turn us into very “funny” people.

B.A: Brandeis University, double major in Theater Arts, International and Global Studies

 

“… pure despair does not, has never, and will never, exist. Even the suicide hopes for death. ‘Hope’ and ‘despair’ sound like words that reflect each other, concepts that must always come together, like night and day. But only one of them exists, and the one that exists, hope, is permanently present, in every situation. Hope exists as much as we do, and independently of our wills. We can try to lock out the visits of hope, but it seeps round the thickest doors. Hope is often cruel.”

-Declan Donnellan, The Actor and the Target