This award is presented to a Graduate Of the Last Decade, in honor of generously shared time and talent in service to Wittenberg University.
Winner of the 2001 John F. Kennedy Center's National Student Playwriting Award for his work it is no desert, Dan Stroeh has continued to write and remain active in the world of theatre and beyond since graduation. Commissioned by the Kennedy Center to write a new play for young adult audiences, Stroeh also has scripts in development with Reel Farm Films Inc. and is working on his first novel. Audiences in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Milwaukee and Cincinnati have seen his work. He has also served as a visiting artist at Sundance Theatre Lab, the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Kennedy Center and the Mark Taper Forum, and he is a founding member of New York City's Threshold Theatre Project.
The former resident playwright for Boston's Alarm Clock Theatre, which commissioned him to write 10 a.m. Signing, Stroeh has also been a contributor to Monologues for Men by Men, American College Theatre Festival Presents, the Audition Arsenal, Smith & Kraus' forthcoming Short Scenes for Young Actors. His poetry and prose has also been featured in the Wittenberg Review of Literature and Art, and The Florida English Journal.
An enthusiastic educator, Stroeh has served as guest lecturer at various universities, high schools and young writers' conferences on creative and dramatic writing, theatre and literary theory. At the same time, Stroeh was an educational consultant to Communities in Schools, New York City Inc. (CISNYC), a non-profit organization working with at-risk youth in under-funded New York City public schools. As a consultant, Stroeh ran tutoring programs, developed curriculum, assisted with the implementation of the Leading Change Program and worked closely with at-risk young men on schoolwork and college preparation.