FILMOGRAPHY
2005] "Mary Bryant" (mini)
2004] Tom White
2004] One Perfect Day
2003] "The Secret Life of Us"
2001] The Pitch
1999] "Queen Kat, Carmel & St Jude" (mini)
1999] The Date
1998] Blabbermouth & Stickybeak
1997] "Raw FM"
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In 2002 Dan earned a Churchill Fellowship to study Theatre, Translation (poetry) and radio plays in Paris. The Churchill Fellowship is a terrific Australian scheme that awards an opportunity, through the provision of financial support, to enable Australian citizens from all walks of life to travel overseas to undertake an analysis, study or investigation of a project or issue that cannot be readily undertaken in Australia.
In 1999 he won best actor for 'The Date' at the Tropfest short film festival.
Dan on signing on to do Tom White before reading a script:
"I just decided I really wanted to work with Alkinos and I decided to work with those guys well before they decided the project was going to be Tom White,"
Dan on working in television:
"It's more like a job than film and theatre. Film or theatre tend to be adventures or journeys that you go on, whereas television has much more the daily job about it because of how much has to be produced.
Dan on earning his churchill fellowship:
"I am just about to begin a Churchill Fellowship in August, based in Paris for 12 weeks, travelling with my partner, Kate Davis, on a research, theatre travel grant. It was the third year in a row that I'd applied, and each year what I wanted to do would slightly change. The first year was for theatre alone. (But) by the third year I included translating Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet, whom I've been translating for the past two years."
Dan on poetry & translating:
"I want to be a translator, not just of poetry. It will be the writer that attracts me, the consciousness, the voice. I've learnt heaps about translation and I'm certain that I haven't learnt it all. I've learnt that if there was a metaphor for French it might be "water", and if there was a metaphor for English it might be "stone". Translating is practical whereas writing poetry is a creative process. There are great similarities between acting and translating as well, as far as serving a writer or a story or a voice. And as much as I've learnt about French I've learnt about English while translating Rimbaud."