Biography

Dan's science fiction short DOT won awards in several international film festivals and was shown in regular rotation on the USA Cable network cult program "Night Flight."

Comic Book Author/ Illustrator, Stephen R. Bissette, wrote about Dot: "Daniel Vincent Carbone's 'Dot' is a haunting, black-and-white, post-holocaust parable that uses the nuked wasteland as a device to strip his characters and tale to a stark, raw Theatre of the Absurd intensity, rather than as the point of the parable itself. Dreamlike, engaging, wistfully moving, "student" film blends the organics of David Lynch's universe with the melancholy poetry of Ray Bradbury to memorable effect." - Deep Red, March 1988

Dan has been active in San Francisco Bay Area theatre since 1995 as a both a playwright and performer. In 2010, his Dark Room Series in San Francisco was named "Best Indefinable Night in a Theater" by the SF Guardian.

Dan's Solo Performance piece, "Kingdom of Not" premiered at the San Francisco Fringe Festival where it won Best Dramatic Solo, and had its New York City debut in a run at the Cherry Lane Theatre where it was nominated for a 2007 New York City "IT" (Innovative Theatre) Award for Outstanding Solo Performance. Other awards include Best of the San Francisco Fringe, SF Bay Guardian Goldie Award, SF Bay Guardian Upstage/Downstage Award, and Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Award for "Best Original Script."

Selected Theatre Reviews:

"Dan Carbone has rare gifts as an actor and writer; even his oddest noises, chants and stories seem logical. The snatches of comic surrealism Carbone performed were among the funniest things I've ever seen on stage; hilarious and elegant and really, really weird. He is the oddest fish in our pond of experimental theatre." - Michael Scott Moore, SF Weekly

"In a town where every conceivable wrinkle in solo theatre seems to have been ironed out long ago, Dan Carbone crept out from under the bed and lit the mattress on fire." - Brad Rosenstein, Bay Guardian

"A unique genius reminiscent of Jonathan Winters." -Gene Price, Bay Times

"A fierce off beat talent" - Robert Alvia, SF Guardian
- IMDb mini biography by: Dan Carbone