Publications/Performances​

 

BOOKS AND RECORDINGS

ARTICLES AND SHORT STORIES (print and radio)

STAGE PLAYS, OPERAS, MUSICAL PERFORMANCES

ANTHOLOGIES

POETRY

AWARDS, GRANTS, ETC.

REVIEWS

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BOOKS AND RECORDINGS

2024
- Here I Stand – (dramatic oratorio libretto/book) published by Bill Holab Music, Brooklyn, New York (music by Carlos Simon as performed by National Symphony and Chorus at The Kennedy Center)

2022 
- My Brilliant Destiny and Other Distractions (poetry - revised second edition of Askew)

2020
- Rancho de Amor - (novel), West Margin Press (but as of late 2022, bought and owned by Turner Publishing), Berkeley, CA and Memphis, Tennessee, ed. Jennifer Newens and Olivia Gnai

2017
- Zipperz – (opera recording with Magic*Magic Orchestra, Felciano – tenor, Coomers - soprano) CD, iTunes, Spotify, etc. recording by Warner Records and Ghostlight

2008
- Zipperz - (opera libretto/book) G. Schirmer/AMP/BMI, New York, (music by Nat Stookey, book by Dan Harder) 

2007
- Askew -- Found and Lost in the Almost South of France (poetry/memoir), Pince-Nez Press, San Francisco, CA, ed. Susan Vogel. First edition.

2000
- A Child’s California (non-fiction, children’s book), Westwind Press, Portland, Oregon, ed. Tricia Brown 

- A Look Back (a history of the French American International School), Graphic Arts Center Publishing, Portland, OR, ed. Jane Camblin

1998
- Colliding with Chris (fiction, children’s book), Hyperion Books For Children (a division of Disney), New York, New York, ed. Howard Reeves

1996
- San Francisco; Points of View (essays for a photo/essay book), Graphic Arts Center Publishing, Portland, Oregon, ed. Doug Pfeiffer 

1992
- France (text for a photo/essay book), Graphic Arts Center Publishing, Portland, Oregon, ed. Doug Pfeiffer 

1985
- Generous Misgivings (chapbook of poetry), Studio 301, San Francisco, California, ed. Dino Vinti

1982
- Rave (chapbook of poetry with two other poets, Anne Freyda and Kevin Kissell), Back Alley Press, Santa Cruz, California, ed. Trish Steinhart

ARTICLES AND SHORT STORIES (print and radio)

2018
- SF Chronicle, (see “Poetry” for August 26, 2018 – Insight Section used 5 of my poems and some explanatory prose as an editorial opinion piece), Lois Kazakoff, editor https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/The-untouchables-of-San-Francisco-13178690.php

2007
- “The Tempest in the Trivium” (academic essay on Shakespeare – somewhat longer version) Upstart Crow, Clemson University, ed. Elizabeth Rivlin, Volume 26, Fall, p. 70

- “The Tempest in the Trivium” (academic essay on Shakespeare – shorter version) Connotations, Volume 15, numbers 1-3, Waxmann Munster/New York, ed. Matthias Bauer, University of Tubingen, Germany https://www.connotations.de/contact-2/

- "The Last Perfect Place" (feature article) West Magazine, LA Times, May 13, edited and co-authored by Ann Herold. www.latimes.com

2006
- "Lost in Translation", (featured essay) SF Chronicle Magazine, SF Chronicle, July 9, ed. Alison Biggar

- "For the Love of Stinky Cheese", (essay) West Magazine, LA Times, April 23, ed. Ann Herold. www.latimes.com

2005
- "The Royal Visit", (humorous commentary), The California Report (California Public Radio and KQED), November 4, produced by Stacy Bond

- “Steve Kirby” (biographical essay), The Sierra Club Yodeler, March, ed. Don Foreman, Oakland, CA

2004
- “The Need for Speed” (feature essay), Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 18, ed. Ann Herold, www.latimes.com

2003
- “Helen Chaplin” (feature essay), Los Angeles Times Magazine, August 3, ed. Ann Herold, www.latimes.com

- “Dan Sullivan” (biographical article) The Sierra Club Yodeler, February, ed. Don Foreman, Oakland, CA

2002
- “Love Letters” (article), (a): A Journal of Culture and the Unconscious, ed. Juliet Flower MacCannell, San Francisco, CA (The Lacan Circle)

2001
- “The Mood in the Haight” (cultural report), National Public Radio, All Things Considered, December 9, ed. Tom Cole, www.npr.org

- “The New Old Haight” (op-ed), San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, October 4, ed. Lois Kazakoff, www.sfgate.com

- “Surfing Commentary” (commentary), National Public Radio, Morning Edition, January 29, ed. Neva Grant, www.npr.org

- “Finding God in LA” (feature article), Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 28, ed. Ann Herold, www.latimes.com

- “Side by Side” (feature article), San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday Section, April 15, ed. Lois Kazakoff, www.sfgate.com

2000
-  “When the Bough Breaks” (point of view article), San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, December 31, ed. Heidi Swillinger www.sfgate.com

- “Riding Blind” (first person essay), San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, November 26, ed. Heidi Swillinger www.sfgate.com

- “Cross-Culture Cookie” (article), Saveur Magazine, April, ed. Margo True

1999
- “California Dreaming” (feature article), Los Angeles Times Magazine, Sunday, October 24, ed. Ann Herold www.latimes.com

-  “A Most Solitary Place” (feature article in the “First Person” series), Los Angeles Times Magazine, Sunday, Aug. 1, ed. Ann Herold www.latimes.com

1985
- “A Logic Beyond Reason” (feature review about science fiction writer J. G. Ballard), San Francisco Review of Books, vol. 9, no. 3, ed. Ron Nowicki

1984
-  “Freedom’s Gamble” (short story), San Francisco Review of Books, vol. 8, no. 6, ed. Ron Nowicki (used pseudonym Peter Stark, wrote about other pseudonym Christine Dutton)

STAGE PLAYS, OPERAS, MUSICAL PERFORMANCES
     Member of the Dramatists Guild of America

2026
- The Brothers Kaczynski, staged reading of the play at Mill Valley Library Theater, March 2.  Delia MacDougal*, Greg Meyer, Joel Mullennix*, Julia McNeal*, Robert Parsons*, David Francis Perry*, Sophie Schulman*, Ryan Tasker*. I directed. Produced by the Playwrights Lab of Marin.

- Here I Stand performed by the Unsung Collective and Brandon Coleman, bass-baritone, with members of the New York Philharmonic, Riverside Church, New York, New York, January 18 (in honor of Martin Luther King)

- Here I Stand performed by the Unsung Symphony and Brandon Coleman, bass-baritone, with members of the New York Philharmonic, Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York, New York, February 21 
https://www.salonavecmoi.com/performing-arts/the-unsung-symphony-a-testament-to-people-of-color-in-classical-music

2025
- The Book Bag, 10-minute comedy in The Playwrights’ Lab Short Play Festival, Mill Valley Library Theater, November 3. Directed by Phoebe Moyer with Jarion Monroe*, Marcia Pizzo*, Brendan Looney*

- Here I Stand, dramatic oratorio about Paul Robeson, premiered at Oakland Symphony under baton of Kedrick Armstrong, performed by Morris Robinson bass-baritone and Oakland Chorus/Pacific Edge Voices.  Dan Harder -- libretto, music by Carlos Simon.  May 16. Reprise from last year.

2024
- Here I Stand, dramatic oratorio about Paul Robeson, East Coast premiere with the National Symphony and Chorus at the Kennedy Center (when it WAS the KENNEDY CENTER) under the baton of Eugene Rogers, performed by Morris Robinson. Libretto by Dan Harder, music by Carlos Simon. September 14.
- Here I Stand, dramatic oratorio about Paul Robeson, premiered at Oakland Symphony under baton of Kederick Armstrong, performed by Morris Robinson bass-baritone and Oakland Chorus/Pacific Edge Voices.  Dan Harder -- libretto, music by Carlos Simon.  February 16.

2022
- Utopia Maldita, a play in 5 scenes, script and most lyrics by Dan Harder, music by Richard Marriott, video by Gustavo Vasquez, produced by Circuit Network, March 24-29, Space 124 - Project Artaud. Produced and directed by Elisabeth Beaird.  
- West Edge Opera workshop performances of Here I Stand -- a Dramatic Oratorio, music by Carlos Simon, libretto by Dan Harder, co-commissioned for development by West Edge Opera, the Oakland Symphony, and National Symphony at the Kennedy Center.

2020
- Utopia Maldita, a play in 6 parts, premiered at The Farm, San Francisco, with music by Richard Marriott and video by Gustavo Vasquez, produced by Circuit Network, November 1

2019
- A Celebration of Walt Whitman – dramatic readings of Whitman’s poetry directed by Laura Sheppard and me, produced by the Mechanics Institute Library/DADA Bar, June 29

2018
- A Killer Story – scored performance, Pivotal Labs, San Francisco, CA, Tuesday, March 20. Directed by me.

- At the Corner zipper poem performed as part of Sunday Service at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, Brian Weller and Amy Zucker Morgenstern performing, Sunday, September 9.

2017
- Zipperz – CD Release performance, International School of San Francisco, Manoel Felciano (tenor) and Robin Coomers (soprano) with piano/vocal performance by composer Nat Stookey

2016
- Shapes – staged reading, one of four plays chosen by the Murphys Creek Theatre “Festival of New Plays”, Sunday, October 9. 

- The Clean Break, produced by and at Murphys Creek Theatre, Murphys, CA. 5 week run, Feb. 19 – March 20. Directed by Graham Scott Green.

2015
- The Clean Break – staged reading, one of three plays chosen by the Murphys Creek Theater “Festival of New Plays”, Friday, November 6. 

2014
- Quartet #1 for Three Characters and Cello, produced by Art Shack Media, 11/22, Litteraturhuset,  Oslo, Norway, with Thale Tornes, Torgny Aanderaa, and Dean Clark*

- A Killer Story, scored performance, produced by Gallery Players, McMinnville, Oregon, directed by Teresa Van de Vere., 8/9, 10, 11.

-  A Killer Story, scored performance, produced by the Mechanics Library, 3/26 and 27, directed by Dan Harder, cast: Dixon Phillips*, Lauren Tannenbaum, Steven Winn, with pianist/composer Randy Craig

2013
- A Killer Story, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Greenside Venue, August 19-25, Edinburgh, Scotland, a Dean Clark/Mr. Bobby Production, cast: Dean Clark*, Thale Tornes, Torgny Aanderaa, and Joe LaCasce on saxophone, directed by Dean Clark

- A Killer Story, equity production with Ryan O’Donnell, Madeline H. D. Brown*, and Robert Parsons*, directed by Michelle Haner*, in the Main Stage at The Marsh, Berkeley, 4/12 through 5/18 Thursday, Friday, Sunday

- A Killer Story, staged reading at the Norwegian Actors’ Centre, Oslo, Norway, 3/10

2011
- Zipperz, a SoaPOPera, zippered libretto by Dan Harder, music by Nat Stookey, Marin Symphony 3/13 & 3/15, Marin Symphony, Alasdar Neale conducting, Manoel Felciano* (tenor), Robin Coomer (mezzo)

- A Killer Story, stage-reading, equity, with Robert Parsons, Alexandra Creighton, and Anthony Nemirovsky, 2/6, a "Savory Thymes" fundraiser at Hillside Gardens, Mill Valley, CA.  Directed by Chris Smith with music by Mark Growden

2010
- A Killer Story, stage-reading, equity, produced by Sergei Varshavsky, with Robert Parsons*, Julia McNeal*, and Jack Willis*, 7/6, Porto Franco Art Parlor, 953 Valenica St. SF.

2009
- "A Killer Story", stage-reading, equity, with Robert Parsons*, Julia Brothers*, and Gabe Marin*, directed by Mark Routier, 4/16, Throckmorton Theater, Mill Valley (produced by the Playwright's Lab).

2008
- Zipperz, a SoaPOPera, zippered libretto by Dan Harder, music by Nat Stookey, Season-Opening Concert at the Paramount Theater, 11/14, Oakland East Bay Symphony, Michael Morgon conducting, Manoel Felciano* (tenor), Eisa Davis (mezzo)

- Maria Hidalgo-Smith Wears the Highest Heels, equity staged-reading, directed by Ken Sonkin, Throckmorten Theater, Mill Valley (produced by Playwrights Lab)

- This Time (reworking of “Pretty Girl Goes to the Movies” monologue for two characters) rehearsed reading, equity cast, Feb. 22-23, Throckmorten Theater, Mill Vallery, directed by Joel Mullenix, with Amy Resnik

2007
- Timing (rehearsed reading, equity cast), Feb. 23-24, Throckmorten Theater, Mill Vallery, directed by Phoebe Moyer

2006
- Shapes, (rehearsed reading, equity cast), May 22, Throckmorten Theater, Mill Valley, directed by Greg Meyer, equity cast, produced by the Playwrights' Lab

- Tack, a short play, February 3 and 4, Throckmorten Theater, Mill Valley, directed by Tony Kelly, produced by the Playwrights' Lab (part of the "Playwrights with Attitude Festival")

2005
-  The Clean Break, (rehearsed reading, equity cast) April 21, Throckmorten Theater, Mill Valley, directed by Ken Sonkin, produced by the Playwrights’ Lab

2004
- Quartet #1 for Three Characters and Cello, Sept. 30 – Oct. 23 (Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays), Actors’ Theater, downtown San Francisco, directed by Alan Quismorio, produced by SteinBeck Presents, an equity waiver production. Mentioned in Leah Garchik’s SF Chronicle column, October 7.

- The Clean Break, workshop performance, Oct. 19, Exit Theater, directed by Christine Young, produced by Amy Mueller and In the Rough

- Quartet #1 for Three Characters and Cello (full-length, staged reading), May 10, Abingdon Theater, NYC, directed by Kate Bushman

- Quartet #1 for Three Characters and Cello (rehearsed reading), April 26, Chashama Theater, 42nd Street, NYC, produced and directed by Kiara Downey

- Quartet #1 for Three Characters and Cello (staged reading), February 14, First Universalist Unitarian Church Theater, Walnut Creek, CA, produced and directed by Marc Murai

2003
- Political Cabaret, produced by Bernie Weiner, performed monologues "When the Savage Hordes Come Riding Into Town" and "Poetic Math" (with John Santos backing both on drums), The Marsh, June 26, (with Geoff Hoyle and others)

- Quartet #1 for Three Characters and Cello (One-Act version), three performances, April 25, 26, 27, The Western Stage, Salinas, CA, directed by Linda Hancock (part of their One-Act Festival)

2002
- Quartet #1 for Three Characters and Cello, (full-length, staged reading), November 4, The Magic Theater, San Francisco, directed by Emily Koch

- Quartet #1 for Three Characters and Cello (June 11, with Bernie Weiner), The Marsh, San Francisco, music composed by Randy Craig, directed by Kiara Downey (presented as a One-Act, staged-reading)

???when and exactly what2002????  Soiree Musicale at French American Theater, “A Simple Logic” poem with music by Nat Stookey, performed by members of the SF Symphony, conducted by Donald Runicles. Also performed my translation of the Anna de Noailles poem “Les Violons…” music by Stookey???

2001
-  PBS film of Colliding with Chris (symphonic story for children, music by Nat Stookey, book by Dan Harder) aired on North Carolina affiliate stations, June - American Premiere, March 17, by the North Carolina Symphony. Represented by BMI.

1995 
- Symphonic story for children, Colliding with Chris, music by Nathaniel Stookey, book by Dan Harder, commissioned for the Halle Symphony Orchestra, Manchester, England, Patricia Routledge - narrator, Kent Nagano - conductor (won London Times Critics Choice)

1991
- Androktasia (excerpted for use in production, “Words – The Front Line”), Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon, Kate Hawkes - director

1990
- Trying Angles (four week run), Gallery Players of Oregon, McMinnville, Oregon, Joanne Walker - director

- Pretty Girl Goes to the Movies (monologue), LA MAMA ETC, New York, New York, (part of their “American Monologues” festival)

1989
- Androktasia (staged reading), Company One, Hartford, Connecticut, directed by Juanita Rockwell

- Trying Angles (four week run – equity), Bannam Place Theater, San Francisco, California, Andrea Gordon,  director, cast: Maureen Coyne*, Samuel Gregory*, Delia MacDougall*, Soren Oliver*, and Nancy Shelby*

1988
- I directed a four-week run of two modern Noh plays by Yukio Mishima as a guest professor and director at Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon

1987
- Androktasia (four week run), San Francisco Jewish Community Theater, San Francisco, California, Peter Luce - director

1986 
- Androktasia (two week run), Footworks Theater, San Francisco, California, Peter Luce, director

ANTHOLOGIES
 

2026
“California Poets, Part 11” an online anthology, LAdige, ed. David Garyan, https://davidgaryan.wixsite.com/ladige/california-poets

2011
- poem "Take, for example/the pristine air" in Visions and Affiliations, A California Literary Timeline: Poets and Poetry 1940 -2005, by Jack Foley, published by Pantograph, Oakland, CA, 

2005
- poem “Out of Place” in Cloud View Poets, published by Arctos Press, Sausalito, CA, ed. CB Follett

2001
- poem “The Poppy” in Stories from Where We Live, The California Coast published by Milkweed Editions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, ed. Sara St. Antoine

1999
- poems “Is like/nothing like” and “Form/unformed/perfect” in Standing on the Ceiling published by Foxfold Press, Sausalito, California, ed. Jo Fox

1998
- poem “Anderson Windows” in Scream When You Burn published by Incommunicado Press, San Diego, California, ed. Rob Cohen

1989
- poem “Webeast Lustloving to Civilize a Womb” in Arvon International Poetry Competition Anthology published by the Arvon Foundation, Sotheby’s, The London Observer, and Duncan Lawrie Limited, Devon, England

1988
- Poem “Pre-limn” in Rainbows and Rhapsodies, Poetry of the Eighties, Fine Arts Press, Knoxville, TN, ed. Lincoln Young

 
POETRY

2025
- “Can a Mushroom Change Your Mind?”, Mycena News, The Mycological Society of San Francisco, April. Edited by Mickey McCurdy
- “Can a Mushroom Change Your Mind?”, Mycena News, The Mycological Society of San Francisco. incorrect formatting, February

2024
- 3 poems: “A Kingdom unto Themselves”, ”Evolutions in Theyness”, “Are They Really So Different?” - Fungi Magazine, Britt Bunyard, editor, Fall edition

2023
- “The Poppy” California History Stories, ed. Christine Echeverri

2021
- “Delusions of Grandeur”, “Wild Horses”, and “Can Sadness Be Serene?” in online journal The Impermanence of Earth, University of Georgia Press, July 20.

- “Michael Morgan in Memoriam”, published in the program for A Tribute to Michael Morgan, 10/8/21, at the Paramount Theater, Oakland, CA.  Commissioned and performed by the Oakland Symphony and Chorus under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen to music by Richard Marriott.

2018
- “E Pluribus…” in SF Chronicle, Insight Section, commission to write poem about the mid-term election, ed. Lois Kazakoff, Sunday, November 11

- “At the Corner”. “Can Sadness Be Serene”, “Wild Horses”, “Delusions of Grandeur”, and “Tent Man and Bag” in San Francisco Chronicle, Insight Section (cover!), ed. Lois Kazakoff, Sunday, August 26

2012
- "Neighbors in a Small French Village" (“The Feud”) in In Posse Review, Spring, ed. Susan Terris
 
2011
- "Charlie, Adolf, or the Red Man", Autolycus - rogue literary journal #2, ed. Genie Cartier

2004
- “Out of Place” and “The Woman Who Sells Cosmetics”, Facets, ed. Anne Howard

2002
- “Pre-limn”, Amherst Review, vol. 30, Amherst, Mass., ed. Jaycelle Pequet

- “Nesika’s Farm”, Peregrine, Amherst, Mass. ed. Caroline Pelletier

2001
-  “To See the Elephant”, Runes, no. 1, Sausalito, CA, ed. CB Follett and Susan Terris

1999
- “Redhead at the Mall”, Poetry Motel, no. 29, Duluth, Minnesota, ed. Linda Ericson

1998
- “The Poppy”, Birmingham Poetry Review, no. 18, ed. Randy Blythe

1997
- “To See the Elephant” and “As If in the Ancient Body”, Frontiers (“The Heroes Journey”), vol. 2, Fall, ed. Bradley Earle

1996
- “Blowing Hot When It Should Be Cold”, Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal, summer, ed. Joanne Hotchkis

1995
- “Form/ unformed/ perfect”, “The Poppy”, and “Santa Monica Zenway”, Witness, vol. 9, no. 1, Farmington Hills, Michigan, ed. Peter Stein

- “To comfort/ was too much” and “Endlessly/forever/and again”, W’ORCS, vol. 10, January, Cincinnati, Ohio, ed. Raoul

1994
- “Anderson Windows”, Caffeine, no. 10, Los Angeles, California

- “Woman in a Striped Dashiki”, “A Make-over on the Coast”, “The Santa Monica Zenway”, “Huck and Jim in Cowboy Hats”, and “A Redhead at the Mall”, W’ORCS, September, Cincinnati, Ohio, ed. Raoul

- “You/ with the hundred tongues of fear”, Maverick Press, November, Eagle Pass, Texas, ed. Carol Cullar 

- “The Pieces of a Dig”, under pseudonym Christine Dutton, Maverick Press, April, Eagle Pass, Texas, ed. Carol Cullar

1993
- “Take, for example/ the pristine air”, “Redhead at the Mall”, Santa Monica Zenway” Huck and Jim”, “Woman in a Striped Dashiki”, and “Makeover on the Coast” reprinted from Poetry USA in W’ORCS, December, Cincinnati, Ohio

- “You/ with the hundred tongues of fear” and “Take, for example/ the pristine air”, Poetry USA, experimental poetry issue no. 25/26, Oakland, California, ed. Jack Foley

- “Willamina Falls”, Folio, Spring, American University, Washington, DC

- “Driving Like Mad”, Borderlands - Texas Poetry Review, Spring, Austin, Texas

1992
- “When Next Year Bursts and Burrows Where it Falls”, Sierra Magazine, Aug./Sept., San Francisco, California

1991
- “Suddenly…” and “Searching the palpable/patterns” (a simple logic), Poetry USA, Summer, Oakland, California, ed. Jack Foley

1990
- “Pretty Girl Goes to the Movies”, Lamia Press, New York, New York (Poet’s Theater issue)

-  “Ca se voit mieux...” and “How Sunday Meets a Mermaid”, The Plastic Tower, no. 3, Baltimore, Maryland

1989 
- “a perfect purple opening, within”, Context South, vol. 1, no. 1, State University, Arkansas

- “For the 86 Killed In A Train Station Bombing”, Poetry Nottingham, vol. 43, no. 3, Nottingham, England

- “Wedding Two Friends”, Maryland Poetry Review, Spring, Baltimore, Maryland

1988
- “Woman with the Green Eyes”, Ocean County Poet’s Collective, “Without Halos” vol. 6, Princeton, New Jersey

- “Chico, Slave Mahatma, and the Nuclear Umbrella”, Poultry Magazine of Comic Poetry, series 2, no. 6, Boston, Massachusetts

- “Woman with the Green Eyes”, W’ORCS, vol. 3, no. 9, Oakland, California

- Three “Trials” and “For the 86 Dead”, SOMA Magazine, July, San Francisco, California

1986
-  “This (Sometimes) Broken Line”, YEW Review, no. 5, Chicago, Illinois

1985
-  “Gnomon to Kalon”, The Bridge, 2nd International, San Francisco, California
 

AWARDS, GRANTS, ETC.
Member of Marin Playwrights Lab on and off for years
Chosen as a Playground writer at Berkely rep 

2026
- Tri M Foundation Grant for our opera, The Brothers Kaczynski (my completed libretto, Dresher’s not yet composed score)

2020
- Grants for the production of my play, Utopia Maldita, from the SF Arts Commission, the Phyllis Wattis Foundation, and the Sam Mazza Foundation produced by Circuit Network (Elisabeth Beaird)

2016
-Nominated for Murphys Creek Theatre New Play Festival

2015
- Winner of Murphys Creek Theatre Festival New play Festival (which insured a five-week run of my play The Clean Break in 2016)

2013
-  nominated for Pushcart Award by the editors of In Posse Review and Runes for the zipper poem "Neighbors in a Small French Village" (“The Feud”).

- awarded an RHE Trust grant for production of the play A Killer Story

- awarded a “discretionary grant” from the James T. Irvine Foundation for A Killer Story

- A Killer Story nominated for Pulitzer Prize.

2003
-  “Finalist” in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival for "Quartet for Three Characters and Cello" (full-length version)

1999
- “Children’s Choice” booklist, Children’s Book Council and the International Reading Association, for kid’s book "Colliding with Chris"

1997
- KCBS Valentine’s Day Poetry Contest, “Thelonious for Ora”, San Francisco, California (used pseudonym Peter Stark). Received a voucher for dinner for two at a VERY nice restaurant in SF. They read this poem on-air through Valentine’s Day.

1995
- London Times Critic’s Choice for “Colliding With Chris”, a symphonic story for children, music by Nat Stookey, book by Dan Harder, Performed by the Halle Symphony, Kent Nagano conducting, read/performed by Dame Patricia Routledge  (see Schirmer/Wise Music’s page for Nat Stookey, composer, https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/3094/Nathaniel-Stookey/ )

1991
- Best New Ski Film -- for “Le Grand Defi”, Atriom Productions, text by Harder, Rayban Sports Film Award, Aspen, Colorado

1988
- First Prize for “When Next Year Bursts and Burrows Where It Falls”, Oregon Blackberry Festival, Salem, Oregon

1987
- Special Commendation for “Webeast Lustloving to Civilize a Womb”, Arvon Poetry Competition, hosted and judged by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney (anthologized two years later by Hughes and Heaney)

PUBLISHED REVIEWS 
 

2026
Review for dramatic oratorio “Here I Stand” – Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem, NY, Brandon Coleman bass-baritone, Unsung Symphony, and members of the New York Philharmonic, 2/21
https://www.salonavecmoi.com/performing-arts/the-unsung-symphony-a-testament-to-people-of-color-in-classical-music

2024
Reviews for dramatic oratorio “Here I Stand” - Kennedy Center, National Symphony 9/14
- BroadwayWorld review by Eliot Lanes
https://www.broadwayworld.com/washington-dc/article/Review-ECHOES-OF-AMERICA-at-Kennedy-Center-20240916

- Across the Arts Review by Patrick McCoy
https://patrickdmccoy.com/musical-cornerstones/

- Washington Post, by Charles Downey
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/09/15/review-national-symphony-orchestra-echoes/
and.. (same review by Downey)
https://washingtonclassicalreview.com/2024/09/15/new-simon-commission-rounds-out-nso-program-centered-on-american-folk-song/

Reviews for dramatic oratorio “Here I Stand” - Oakland Symphony, 2/16
- Classical Voices, Jeff Rosenfeld, performed Oakland Symphony/Paramount Theater 2/20/24
https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/oakland-symphony-premieres-carlos-simon-oratorio 

- Musical America, Steven Winn, 2/21/24,
https://www.musicalamerica.com/news/newsstory.cfm?storyid=55787&categoryid=4&archived=0 

- Kalimac’s Corner, a journal by DB 2/17/24
https://kalimac.blogspot.com/2024/02/concert-review-oakland-symphony.html

2020
- for novel “Rancho De Amor”, Kirkus Review, December11
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dan-harder/rancho-de-amor/

2018
-- for “Zipperz” opera CD, San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, Joshua Kosman, https://www.sfchronicle.com/music/article/CD-Review-Nathaniel-Stookey-Zipperz-12735661.php 

2017
- for Zipperz” CD, Stage Buddy, October 5. By Erin Kahn, https://stagebuddy.com/music/records/album-review-zipperz 

2016
- for “The Clean Break” at Murphys Creek Theater, February 16, The Union Democrat, Sonora, CA, by Mike Morris

2013
- for “The Killer Story” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 19-26 (different cast/director):
     - 8/29/13, The Edinburgh Festival List, by Niki Boyle
http://edinburghfestival.list.co.uk/article/54391-a-killer-story/

-  for “The Killer Story” at The Marsh, April 12-May18:
     - 4/20/13 examiner.com by Cindy Warner
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-marsh-berkeley-presents-world-premiere-of-dan-harder-s-a-killer-story

     - 4/21/13 examiner.com by Cindy Warner
http://www.examiner.com/review/dan-harder-s-a-killer-story-a-film-noir-tour-de-force-set-berkeley
     - 4/26/13 beyondchron.org by Lee Hartgrave
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=11275 

     - 4/26/13 San Jose Mercury online by Karin de Souza
http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_23114524/review-killer-story-crackling-noir-whodunit-at-marsh

     - 4/26/13 The Berkeley Daily Planet by John McMullen
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2013-04-26/article/41021?headline=-A-Killer-Story-at-Berkeley-Marsh-intriguing-language-ideas-difficult-form--By-John-A.-McMullen-II

     - 5/2/13 The Examiner by Jean Schiffman
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/killer-snazzy-but-uneven/Content?oid=2336898

     - 5/2/13 San Joe Mercury, Contra Costa Times, and Oakland Tribune by Karen de Souza, same as her online review 4/26
http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_23114524/review-killer-story-crackling-noir-whodunit-at-marsh

     - 5/3/13 Silicon Valley Watcher by Tom Foremski
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/05/weekendwatcher_a_kill.php

     - 5/6/13 theidiolect.com by Sam Hurwitt
http://theidiolect.com/theater/zip-it-gumshoe/

     - 5/7/13 SF Bay Guardian by admin
http://www.sfbg.com/pixel_vision/2013/05/07/performant-dame-dick-and-dismembered-torso

     - 5/8/13 East Bay Express by Alex Bigman
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/a-noir-set-in-berkeley/Content?oid=3541417

     - 4/26-5/8 Goldstar Reviews -- 4.3 Stars

2011
- For the “opera”  "Zipperz, a SoaPOPera":
     - San Francisco Classical Voice, Thomas Busse, March 13, 2011
              http://www.sfcv.org/reviews/marin-symphony/pop-goes-the-marin-symphony
     - 21st-Century Music, Mark Alburger, May 1, 2001,
         http://21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com/2011/03/stookey-strikes-again-with-marin.html

2008
- For the “opera” "Zipperz, a SoaPOPera":
   - San Francisco Chronicle, Joshua Kosman, November 17

   - www.artsSF.com, Paul Hertelendy (former stage and music critic for the San Jose   Mercury), Week of November 16

   - SFist. November 20, Cedric

   - Oakland Tribune/Contra Costa Times, Cheryl NOrth, November 17

   - San Francisco Classical Voice, Jason Serinus, November, 18

2006
- Letter to the Editor, LA Times, by Robin Wyshak, 5/14/06 for Stinky Cheese" article

2004
- The Bay Guardian, October 13, for play "Quartet #1", reviewed by Avila

2001
- School Library Journal, January,  "A Child’s California", reviewed by Patti Con

2000
-  Horn Book Guide, Spring, for kid’s book "Colliding with Chris", reviewed by MFS

1999
- Letter to the editor of Los Angeles Times Magazine by Amie Bernstein, 8/29/99 for article “A Most Solitary Place”

1995
   - The London Times, 12/8/95, for symphonic treatment of "Colliding with Chris" -

   - The Manchester Guardian, December, for symphonic treatment of "Colliding with Chris", reviewed by Robert   Seale

1998
- For children’s book "Colliding With Chris":
   - Publishers Weekly, 3/23/98

   - Chicago Tribune, 4/26/98, Mary Veeder - School Library Journal

   - Milwaukee Daily, June '98 reviewed by Paula Kiely

   - June '98 six year old John Bolding - Bulletin of the Center of Children’s Books

   - Children’s Book Review Service, New York, New York, June, reviewed by Ann Kalkhoff

   - Journal Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, April 6

   - Kirkus Review, May 11, '98

1990
- News Register of McMinnville, Oregon, 3/8/90, for play "Trying Angles" by Shaun Hearn

- The Sun of Sheridan, Oregon, 3/7/90, for play "Trying Angles" by Linda Fink
 
1989
For the play "Trying Angles":
  - San Francisco Chronicle, 5/15/89,  by Bernard Weiner

  - San Francisco Examiner, 5/16/89,  by Scott Rosenberg

  - San Francisco Weekly, 5/29/89,  by Dennis Harvey

  - San Francisco Focus Magazine, March, for play "Yes, I Won’t" (early title for “Trying Angles”) by Alice Thibeau

1988
- News Register of McMinnville, Oregon, 11/25/88, for directing, writing, and life – a somewhat exaggerated portrait (Not summa cum Laude – just an A average); not a log truck – only occasionally a dump truck at the Burrill Lumber Mill and a roller-bed for delivering finished lumber from my job at Palms Lumber in LA; not architecture and philosophy – architecture, sociology, and cognitive psychology)

1986
- Food review of our Center Café and Deli in San Francisco Chronicle by Patricia Unterman exact date???

1985
- Caption of photo of Herb Caen standing next to the bust of him I sculpted of him in chopped liver with receding parsley hair in the Northern California Jewish Bulletin, January 25, page 6. Note the wonderful misspelling of our names: Dan Horder and Org Schulman!!