BIOGRAPHY

Dan is an actor and writer based in Montreal, with a love of film noir and pulpy mysteries. He studied Film at Concordia University, and has worked on a variety of projects, from brief appearances in CTV’s Transplant (2020) and Jonathan Levine’s Long Shot(2019), to supporting roles in TV films like Fugitive at 17 (2012) and Trigger point (2015), to the lead in the CBC mini series Prophet of Excstacy (2025). 

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In 2013, he took part in the SODEC Sprint for Your Script Competition and won the WGC/Jimmy Lee prize for best English script for his adaptation of ‘The Mountain Clinic’ by Harold Hoefle. In 2020, he developed a podcast play (POD PLAY) called MTL Bike Thief based loosely on the Montreal Red Squar student protests. In 2022, he had a successful festival tour of his short film Rent Do.

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In 2014, he took part in the Praxis Screenwriter's Lab at the Whistler Film Fest and Praxis Summer Reading series for his feature film script Frozen. Over the years, the story developed but the film was never made. Eventually, he turned the script into a novel, and Bigger Fish was born.