Award-winning actor and playwright Dan Hoyle extends the run of his award-winning one man show, “Border People“, directed and co-developed by Charlie Varon. His latest piece of solo journalistic theater is based on interviews Hoyle conducted with 11 residents of a border – be it geographical, social, cultural or racial. From the South Bronx, to the Northern Border of Canada, to the Southwestern Border into Mexico, Hoyle’s ‘Border People’ are America’s core.
Hoyle’s “Border People” has been greeted with unanimous critical acclaim, earning the highest rating from the San Francisco Chronicle.
“This is what it is to witness a master of his craft. “Border People” is a testament to the core-to-nerve-ending courage and commitment to self that you have to have to live on the border, any sort of border, and to be able to tell your truth about it.” – Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle
YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS THIS SHOW! Enthralling, deeply moving, funny, and exceeding all expectations.
Show Info
75 minutes | No Intermission | Ages 15+
Performer Bio
Dan Hoyle is an actor and writer 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, have toured the country and overseas including The Public Theater, Culture Project, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Mosaic Theater Company (D.C.), Portland Center Stage, Playmakers Rep, Painted Bride (Philly), The Park in Kolkata, India, the Samuel Beckett Theater in Dublin, Ireland, Taliesin in Swansea, Wales, and Abuja, Bauchi, Calabar, Lagos, and Jos, Nigeria.
Hoyle has been recognized with many awards, including the Will Glickman, Prize of Hope, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, multiple TBA awards, and Lucille Lortel (Nomination). He’s been supported by grants from the Edgerton Foundation, Pew Theater Initiative, Fleishhacker Foundation, and been commissioned by Aurora Theater, First Person Arts, San Francisco Playhouse and The Working Theater. He holds a double degree in Performance Studies and History from Northwestern University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria in 2005-2006.
His multi-actor plays include GAME ON (2014), co-written with Tony Taccone, which won the TBA award for Outstanding New Play, THE BLOCK (2016), which had a critically acclaimed World Premiere Off-Broadway (Working Theater), and GROW (2016), about growers in the cannabis industry, which was produced by Mendocino College in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California. In 2016-2017, he was an artist-in-residence at the Heyman Center for Humanities at Columbia University working on a new piece of solo journalistic theater BORDER PEOPLE. He continued workshopping the play as a Spring Lab Fellow at Baltimore Center Stage. In April-May 2018, he was an artist-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin. Border People opened at The Marsh Theater in San Francisco where it ran for ten months before transferring Off-Broadway in January 2020. danhoyle.com
