Dan McCabe is a New York-based playwright, screenwriter and film director.
His play, THE PURISTS, premiered in 2019 at The Huntington Theater in Boston directed by Billy Porter. The production won the Elliot Norton Award for Best Production and the play won the 2020 Elizabeth Osborn Award. THE PURISTS made its UK Premiere in the fall of 2024 at The Kiln Theatre in London directed by Amit Sharma.
In 2023, Dan co-wrote the James Baldwin biopic, THE FIRE NEXT TIME, alongside Billy Porter, which is in development with Allen Media Group.
Dan graduated in 2017 from the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights program at the Juilliard School.