Daniel Ajl Kitrosser
Daniel Ajl Kitrosser

Playwriting and Screenwriting Instructor
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ImageDaniel Ajl Kitrosser teaches musical theater, playwriting, and fiction year-round at Writopia Lab. Dan is the resident storyteller at Central Park and an award-winning playwright. His 2009 children's musicals were performed at theaters throughout the city and in Bryant Park, and won rave reviews from Time Out New York Kids. At Writopia, three of Dan's students have won "Best Play" in Stephen Sondheim's 2008 and 2009 Write a Play! contests, and many others were named finalists or won honorable mentions. A graduate of NYU, Dan's screenplays include Old Days, directed by Matt Shapiro and starring Brad Oscar (Tony Nomination, The Producers) and Mary Beth Piel (Dawson's Creek) and Bodybuilder Island, directed by Matthew Kliegman. Dan has been a final committee judge for the Philadelphia Young Playwrights Festival for four years (this coming summer will be his fifth). Dan's play Be Here Now won this festival and was a finalist in Stephen Sondheim's National Playwriting Competition.