DANIEL (DANNY) GETZOFF

Daniel Getzoff is a Los Angeles-based writer, community activist, bicycle traveler, performer and multi-faceted nonprofit sector worker. His short fiction appears in 42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42 (“Fight” chapter Story of Excellence Award). He was granted residencies at Dorland Mountain Arts in Temecula, California, Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland, and at Playa in Summerlake, Oregon to work on his novel, Nicknames for Harold, which is out on submission.

Daniel has published about 90 Handlebar Confessional essays about experiencing (mostly) Red-State America on a bicycle, riding 11,000+ miles over 3 solo bike treks across the continental United States. He is currently developing these experiences and writings into a memoir. (Please see also https://handlebarconfessional.blogspot.com.

As a playwright, Daniel has been called “an unmistakable talent” by the LA Weekly and that his writing “grapples with the eternal midnight of the soul” (Backstage West). In 2014, he was commissioned by the University of California, Riverside, to write a short work of fiction, Parlo(u)r Game(s) as a companion to a work of ethnography-based theater in development there. His play, At Least Until You Die, received high critical praise and a Garland/Backstage West Award nomination for Playwriting.

As a writer-performer, Daniel has written and performed pieces at several spoken-word venues in Los Angeles, including Spark Off Rose, The Eclectic Company Theatre, The Road Theater Company, Beyond Baroque, and Take Back Theatre Collective in Manchester, U.K. In an earlier incarnation, he was an actor in theater, films, and commercials.

Daniel has also had a career in public health since the late 1990s, having developed and implemented harm reduction-based programs and services that address the health and socioeconomic needs of communities impacted by poverty and housing insecurity, HIV, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration.

Daniel received his B.A. at the University of California, Santa Cruz, graduating with high honors in a multidisciplinary, individual course of study relating to issues of sexuality, culture and identity. He also received an actor training certificate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (London, UK).