Melbourne-based Dan Spielman has been an actor, writer and poet. He has worked in both television and the theatre, including over a dozen seasons with the Keene/Taylor Theatre Project. Spielman's poetry translations have appeared in Masthead.
In 2002 Spielman undertook a Churchill Fellowship as the Gilbert Spottiswood Fellow. He investigated theatre, poetry translation and radioplays in France, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.