Dan Dietz's plays include tempOdyssey, Americamisfit and The Sandreckoner. His work has been commissioned, developed and presented at such venues as Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Guthrie Theater, the Public Theater, the Kennedy Center, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the Playwrights' Center and the Lark Play Development Center. Dietz has been an NEA/TCG Theatre Residency recipient, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere recipient, a Jerome Fellow and a James A. Michener Fellow. He has twice been a recipient of the Heideman Award. His latest play, Clementine in the Lower Nine, had its its world premiere at TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, Calif.) in October 2011.