Dale Andersen

27702 Crown Valley Pkwy

Suite 117, D-4
Ladera Ranch, CA 92694
562-508-5820
andersen.dale@gmail.com

Dale Andersen Professional Resume

I’ve been writing plays for the past ten years. I’ve had
plays produced in California and out of state. I’m a
member of the Dramatists Guild. I’ve studied dramaturgy
with award-winning dramaturg, Scott Horstein. I’ve taken
advanced playwrighting courses at the South Coast Repertory
Theatre.

Theatre Accomplishments - Last Six Years

Jun/2001 - House Mgr/Asst Stage Mgr, New Voices Production

of Carnivals of Desire.

Jul/2001 – Stage Manager, New Voices Production of

“Traveling Light.”

Dec/2001 - Author of short play, Merry Christmas, Bitch,

included in New Voices “Home For The Holidays”
production at the Chance Theatre.

Jun/2002 – Author of short play, The Half-Eaten Chili Dog,

included in Writers Bloc “Surf & Sand”
workshop at Stages Theatre.

Jul/2002 – Author of short play, The Half-Eaten Chili Dog,

included in New Voices “Summer Shorts”
production at the Chance Theatre.

Aug/2002 - Author of full length play, El Chino’s Woman.

Staged reading at Stages Theatre.

Dec/2002 - Author of short play, One Dog’s Christmas,

included in New Voices “Holidays Tidings”
production at the Chance Theatre.
Mar/2003 - Author of full length play, El Chino’s Woman.
Staged reading at Chance Theatre.

Dec/2003 - Author of short play, Christmas Truce,

included in New Voices “Holiday Tree”
production at the Chance Theatre.

Jan/2004 - Full length play, A Better Place, staged

reading at the Asylum Theatre. Short play,
Thank You, produced at Secret Rose Theatre.

Feb/2004 - Short play, Thank You, workshopped at Hunger

Artists Theatre.

Apr/2004 - Full length play, A Better Place, on short list

for 2004 O’Neill Playwrights Conference.

Jun/2004 - Short play, Thank You, selected for staged

reading at the Edward Albee Last Frontier
Theatre Conference.

Aug/2004 - Artist in Residence at the Woodstock Guild in

Woodstock, New York.

Sep/2004 - Short play, Thank You, produced by Love Creek

off Broadway. Political monolog, Starman,
produced by FirstStage in Hollywood. One-
act play, A Team Player, produced at the
Vanguard Theatre in Orange County, CA.

Oct/2004 - Political monolog, Starman, produced off

Broadway by inTouch Productions.

Jan/2005 - Short play, Dead Angel, produced in Hollywood

by FirstStage.

Mar/2005 - Full length play, The Fourth Daughter, given a

staged reading at the South Coast Repertory
Practicum.

May/2005 - One-act play, A Team Player, produced by MadLab

for Columbus Fringe Festival, Columbus, OH.

Jul/2005 - One act play, A Team Player, staged reading by

the Darien Players in Darien, CT.
Jan/2006 - Monologue, Starman, produced Off-Broadway by
This Woman’s Work Theatre.

Mar/2006 - Full length play, A Better Place, given an Off-

Broadway reading by Ten Grand Productions.

May/2006 - One act play, A Team Player, produced by the

Dragonfly Fest at the Devanaugn Theatre in
Boston, MA.

Sep/2006 - Full length play, Mohammed’s Moon, given a

staged reading at the South Coast Repertory
Practicum.

Jul/2007 - One-Act play, Little Jimmy, given a

workshop production at the Hill-Murray Young
Performer's Workshop.

Sep/2007 - Artist in Residence at the Colony House in

Dorset, VT.

Oct/2007 - Full length play, The Best Years of her Life,

given a reading at the South Coast Repertory
Practicum.

May/2008 - David won First Place in UCI Screenwriting

Festival.

Jul/2008 - Full length play, The Best Years of her Life,

given a reading by Panndora Productions.

Nov/2008 - Short one-act, Missing, given a reading

at the South Coast Repertory Practicum.

Jul/2009 - One-Act play, Dead Angel, given a

production at the Write Act Repertory.

Now, as for me personally……

My people were Danish farmers in California’s Central Valley.

Vineyards. Family farms. Grapes of Wrath. Where I grew up,
there were a lot of Danes. A huge amount of Danes. A whole
gaggle of Danes. And---trust me, this is going somewhere---in
our family, there was always the story of Papa. Papa, Hans Peter
Andersen, was my grandfather. He died at age 92. Blind for half
his life. Came to America at age 17. Ellis Island, then on to
Wisconsin, North Dakota and California. Now bear in mind Papa
was an orphan. And orphan in the nineteenth century was a
euphemism for having been born out of wedlock. And that was true
of Papa. But Papa was a very special orphan. In fact, he was
about as special as you can get and still be an orphan. For the
family oral history has it that Papa’s father was none other than
the great Hans Christian himself. The mother, a lady of the
Portuguese persuasion. Probably a groupie.

Hans Christian Andersen was, in his day, famous for his novels,
travelogues and fairy tales. And he certainly did travel to
Portugal and write wittily of his stay there. Alas, nothing
about making the two-backed beastie with the fair Teresa……or was
it Carmen……Rossetta maybe? Ah well. As the Johnny Cash song has
it, “I’ll Never Forget What’s Her Name.”

I went to Fresno State University. Go Bulldogs! Then a year at

UCLA and another at the University of San Diego. Served my
country in the Coast Guard (just like Alex Haley) and in the
Peace Corps (just like Jimmy Carter’s Mum, Miss Lillian). In the
80’s, I signed on as a federal bureaucrat and learned to say
(with an absolutely straight face), “I’m from the government and
I’m here to help you.” Picture that. The former Pakaporn
Suvansarang is my spouse of thirty-three years. We have one son,
Thomas Russell, age 22, a proud graduate of Mountain Lakes High
School. I have a radio quality voice and I put it to good use,
recording books on tape for the blind and dyslexic. I like the
New York Times, Mexican beer and songs about star-crossed lovers.
And that’s all I’m gonna tell you.