Dan Hurlin (born 1955) is an American puppeteer and performance artist.
[1][2][3] Performance works include: No(thing so powerful as) Truth (1995); Constance and Ferdinand (1991) with Victoria Marks; Quintland (The Musical)[4] (1992); The Jazz Section (1989) with Dan Froot; and two toy theater pieces, The Day the Ketchup Turned Blue (1997) from the short story by John C. Russell, and Who's Hungry?/West Hollywood (2008) with Dan Froot.
[5] His large puppet piece Hiroshima Maiden (2004),[6][7][8] with an Obie Award winning score by Robert Een, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse and was awarded a UNIMA citation of excellence.
[9] As a performer he has worked with Ping Chong, Janie Geiser, Annie B. Parson & Paul Lazar, and Jeffrey M. Jones, and directed premieres of works by Lisa Kron, Holly Hughes, Dan Froot, John C. Russell and Erik Ehn.
[10][11][12] Dan Hurlin is a professor of dance composition and puppetry at Sarah Lawrence College and until 2023, served on the board of the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH.