David Hansen is an actor, director, and a member of the Cleveland Play House

Cleveland Play House

The Cleveland Play House is a professional regional theater company located in Cleveland, OH. As of 2005, the artistic director is Michael Bloom, the eighth artistic director since its inception. In 2011 they moved operations to the Allen Theatre in Playhouse Square Center.Founded in 1915,...

 Playwrights Unit. He is the founder of Dobama's Night Kitchen

Dobama's Night Kitchen

Dobama Theatre had been presenting short plays following 8 pm “mainstage” productions for several season before artistic director Joyce Casey asked David Hansen to act as the producer of a series of late-night events geared specifically to audiences in their late-teens and twenties.Called Dobama’s...

 and co-founder of Guerrilla Theater Company and Bad Epitaph Theater Company and a recipient of a 2010 Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.

He is a graduate of Bay Village

Bay Village, Ohio

-Education:Bay High School was awarded the blue ribbon award in the school year of 2010-11.Newsweek magazine placed Bay High School 793rd in its 2009 ranking of the top 1,500 U.S...

 High School, and holds a degree in Theater from Ohio University

Ohio University

Ohio University is a public university located in the Midwestern United States in Athens, Ohio, situated on an campus...

. He is married to writer Toni Thayer. He is currently the Associate Supervisor of the Great Lakes Theatre Festival's School Residency Program.

Awards

His play "I Hate This: A Play Without the Baby" received an award for Excellence in Solo Performance at the New York International Fringe Festival

New York International Fringe Festival

The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a Fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It takes place over the course of two weeks every August, spread across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the...

 in 2003.

Works

• (2011) The Lady
  The Lady
  The Lady may refer to:*The Lady , England's oldest weekly magazine aimed at women*Lady of the Lake, several related characters in Arthurian legend...
  
  
• (2010) On The Dark Side of Twilight
• (2009) And Then You Die (How I Ran a Marathon in 26.2 Years)
• (2005) The Vampyres
• (2003) I Hate This: A Play Without the Baby
  I Hate This
  I Hate This is a solo performance by David Hansen detailing his experiences as the father of a stillborn child.-Production:...
  
  

"I Hate This" has also been adapted as a radio drama in 2005.

External links

• David Hansen website
• Review of 'And Then You Die' in Time Out New York
• Review of 'I Hate This' in the New York Times
• Radio adaptation of 'I Hate This' on WCPN
• Review of 'The Vampyres' at Cleveland Public Theater
  Cleveland Public Theater
  Cleveland Public Theatre is a theater and arts complex in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 1984 by James Levin. It is located at 6415 Detroit Avenue on Cleveland's west side in the Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood. It will be one of the three anchors of the proposed Gordon Square Arts District. It is...
  
  
• Audio diary on WCPN about Spencer Tunick
  Spencer Tunick
  Spencer Tunick is an American photographer. Tunick is best known for organizing large-scale nude shoots. Since 1994 he has photographed over 75 human installations around the world.-Biography:...