Dani Stoller
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Dani Stoller is a Brooklyn-born playwright and actor, who now resides in Washington, D.C. Her plays include Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes which received its world premiere at the Tony Award–winning Signature Theatre; Accepts With Pleasure (featured in the inaugural SigWorks workshop series); The Voices on Blackwell Island (commissioned by Signature Theatre for their 2022/23 Signature in the Schools program); Girlhood (commissioned by Round House Theatre for their 2022/23 TPC commission); Blunted Daggers; The Healers; The Play About the Shiva (finalist for the Theater J Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize in 2022); The Prime (part of the 2024 RH National Capitol New Play Festival); and The Joy That Carries You, co-written with playwright Awa Sal Secka, which had its premiere at the Olney Theatre Center in 2021 and won the Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play or Musical at the Helen Hayes Awards. Her play, Just Great: an adaptation of some book by F. Scott Fitzgerald was recently published through Broadway Licensing/Playscripts. As an actress, she has performed at The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, 1st Stage, and the Kennedy Center. Education: BFA Ithaca College, MFA Playwriting Rome School at CUA. Website: