Dan Fishback (he/him) is a writer and musician in NYC. His musical "The Material World" was called one of the Top Ten Plays of 2012 by Time Out New York. His play "You Will Experience Silence" was called “sassier and more fun than 'Angels in America'” by the Village Voice. His musical "Rubble Rubble" was the focus of public controversy in 2017, when the American Jewish Historical Society canceled the play’s first reading in response to Fishback’s support for Palestinian human rights. As a songwriter, Fishback has released several albums, both solo and with his band Cheese On Bread, which dropped "The One Who Wanted More" in 2018. He founded The Helix Queer Performance Network in 2013, and directed its programming through 2020. With Helix, Fishback created La MaMa Experimental Theater's annual series "La MaMa's Squirts: Generations of Queer Performance." He is currently developing a new play based on characters created by Sholem Aleichem, a new collection of songs, and a satirical horror novel about Jewish summer camp. Fishback has had myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome for over a decade.