Daniel Guyton

Playwright Lyricist

Daniel Guyton is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter from Atlanta, Georgia. His stage plays have been produced over 500 times around the world, and he has been published in over 50 anthologies and solo publications, including several of the Best American Short Plays collections. He is a theatre professor at Georgia State University, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America East. He is also Chair of the Professional Division of the Georgia Theatre Conference and Vice Chair of the Fayette County Arts Committee. He recently won 7 Metropolitan Atlanta Theatre Awards, as well as the Best Horror Screenplay Award from the Los Angeles Film & Script Festival, and the Judge's Choice and Audience Choice Award for the Short and Sweet Festival in Sydney Australia. For more information, please visit: www.danguyton.com.

Highlights

Awards: Metropolitan Atlanta Theatre Awards – Winner of 7 Awards, including Best Production, Best Ensemble Acting, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Sound Design and Best Costume Design, 2018 Georgia Military College; Recipient – Adjunct Professor of the Year, 2018 End of the Road New Play Festival; 2x Winner – Judges’ Choice Award, 2015 & 2018 Short+Sweet Sydney Festival (Australia); Winner – Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice Awards, 2017 Short+Sweet Manila Festival (Philippines); Winner – Audience Favorite Award, 2017 Short+Sweet Manila Festival (Philippines); Winner – Audience Favorite Award, 2016 Arkansas Theatre Collective’s Spring Cleaning Festival; Winner – Audience Favorite Award, 2016 Helen-Jean Play Contest; Winner – Literary Creativity Award, 2015 Almost Random Theatre’s Valentine’s Day Playwriting Competition; Winner – Best Play, 2015 End of the Road New Play Festival; Winner – Judges’ Choice Award, 2015 Worldwide Star Search Showcase; Winner – Monologue Competition, 2015 Los Angeles Film and Script Festival; Winner – Best Horror Screenplay, 2013 Atlanta 48-Hour Film Project; Winner – Best Writing, Ensemble Acting, & Audience Choice Awards, 2013 AuditionArt.com Monologue Competition; Winner – Best Female Monologue, 2012 Gotta Go! Newsletter; 2x Winner – “Favorite of the Evening” Award – 2009-11 Northwest Zone H.S. Drama Festival; Winner – Best Production, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Sound Awards; Canada, 2008 Author’s Playhouse New Author Festival; Winner – Best Comedy Award, 2005 Kennedy Center/ACTF Awards; 2x Winner – Short Play, 2x Finalist – 10-Minute Play, 2001-04 University of Georgia; Winner – Amazing Student Award, 2004 Metropolitan Atlanta Theatre Awards; Nominated for 12 Awards, including the 7 listed above, plus Best Supporting Actor & Actress, Best Set Design & Best Lighting Design, 2018 Suzi Bass Awards; Nominated for the Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award, 2018 Wagner College; Top 10 Semi-Finalist – Stanley Drama Award, 2017 Triad Shakes; Honorable Mention – New Play Competition, 2017 NYC Playwrights; Semi-Finalist – Women in the Age of Trump Festival, 2017 Moonlit Wings; Top 10 Finalist – Playwriting Contest, 2016 Arts & Letters Magazine; Finalist – One Act Play Competition, 2015 Minnesota Shorts Festival of Plays; 2x Semi-Finalist, 2012 & 2015 Storefront Theatre; Playwriting Competition – Honorable Mention, 2015 Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival; Honorable Mention, 2014 The Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship; Semi-Finalist, 2014 Little Fish Theatre’s Pick of the Vine Festival; Semi-Finalist, 2014 New York City Estrogenius Festival; Honorable Mention, 2014 Last Frontier Theatre Conference; 3-time Official Selection, 2012-14 Eerie Horror Film Festival; Top 5 Finalist – Best Screenplay, 2013 Independent Play(w)right’s 10-Minute Play Competition; Top 10 Finalist, 2013 Stageworks/Hudson’s Play by Play Festival; Top 10 Finalist, 2013 Play-Makers Spokane Hit & Run VII Festival; Semi-Finalist, 2013 Time to Strike! Playwriting Festival; Top 10 Finalist, 2012 Spotlight On: One Person Play Competition; Semi-Finalist, 2012 Riant Theatre’s Strawberry One-Act Festival; Semi-Finalist, 2005 Publications: Featured in Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2018 (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2018 Featured in Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2018 (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2018 Featured in Later Chapters: The Best Monologues and Scenes for Actors Over 50 (Applause Books), 2018 Featured in The 12 Plays of Christmas (Dominion Publications), 2018 Where’s Julie? (Next Stage Press), 2018 Three Ladies of Orpgington (Next Stage Press), 2018 Featured in 105 Five-Minute Plays for Study and Performance (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2017 Featured in 222 More Comedy Monologues (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2017 Kim Arthur and the Nerds of the Round Table (YouthPLAYS), 2017 Hilarious Nightmares 2 (Next Stage Press), 2017 Featured in Best 10-Minute Plays of 2016 (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2016 Featured in Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2016 (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2016 Featured in Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2016 (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2016 Featured in Audition Monologues for Young Men 2016 (Pioneer Drama Services), 2016 Featured in Monologues from the Plays of Next Stage Press, Vol. 1 (Next Stage Press), 2016 The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (Pioneer Drama Services), 2016 Dead Giveaway (Heuer Publishing), 2016 Featured Article in The Dramatist Magazine (Volume 17, No. 5.5), 2015 The Mother of God Visits Hell (Amazon Publisher), 2015 Last of the Tannenbaums (Heuer Publishing), 2015 Featured in Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2015 (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2015 Featured in One on One: Contemporary Monologues for Kids Ages 7-15 (Applause Theatre Books), 2015 Featured in Best American Short Plays 2013-14 (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books), 2015 Featured in Best American Short Plays 2012-13 (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books), 2014 Featured in Famous Last Words: A Collection of 12 Ten Minute Plays… (Heuer Publishing), 2014 Featured in Best Men’s Stage Monologues of 2014 (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2014 Featured in Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2014 (Smith & Kraus Publishing), 2014 Featured in Best Contemporary Monologues for Men 18-35 (Applause Theatre Books), 2014 Featured in Best Contemporary Monologues for Women 18-35 (Applause Theatre Books), 2014 Featured in InterJACtions: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature III (JAC Publishing), 2014 Hilarious Nightmares (Next Stage Press), 2013 Featured in Monologues from the Last Frontier Theatre Conference (Focus Publishing), 2013 Mrs. Claus Gets Menopause (ArtAge Publishing), 2013 Romance is Dead (Original Works Publishing), 2013 Abandoned: A Chapbook of Poetry by Daniel Guyton (Feral Press), 2013 Georgie Gets a Facelift (Original Works Publishing), 2013 52 Monologues for Grown-Ups (and College Kids) by Daniel Guyton (Amazon Publishing), 2012 Featured in InterJACtions: Monologues at the Heart of Human Nature II (JAC Publishing), 2012 Rebel Without a Claus (Heuer Publishing), 2012 Rosie, the Retired Rockette (Heuer Publishing), 2012 How I Met Your Santa (Heuer Publishing), 2012 Death of a Snowman (Heuer Publishing), 2010 Featured in Cherry Poppin’ Plays 2009 Anthology (Alive Theatre), 2009 The Twisted Mind of Daniel Guyton (Poetry & Plays in the Dark Comedy Vein) (Amazon Publishing), 2009 Featured in One Acts of Note 2008 (Desert Road Publishing), 2009 Featured in Quick & Painless: Saturday Night Lites 2004-5 Season (Original Works Publishing), 2006 Attic (Original Works Publishing), 2005 Featured in Best Student One-Acts: Volume 7 (Dramatic Publishing Company), 2002