Dan Musgrove is an Emmy-award-winning NZ screenwriter, playwright and actor. A graduate of Toi Whakaari New Zealand Drama School, Dan is best known to television audiences as the original Mr Asia, Marty Johnson, in NZ’s Underbelly series and as Lefty Munroe in six seasons of the TV3’s hit one-hour comedy drama Westside, for which he also wrote scripts. Other recent screenwriting credits include the acclaimed TVNZ2 comedy Creamerie and the International-Emmy-award-winning short form thriller INSiDE for Prime.

Dan is a co-founder of Luminous Beast, a film-production company whose latest half-hour comedy drama was recently selected to participate in the New Zealand Film Commission’s Ruapapa Whakaari development funding scheme. His theatre-writing credits include Christ Almighty, Toys and the acclaimed Michael Hurst solo show No Holds Bard (co-written with Natalie Medlock) which premiered at the New Zealand International Festival in 2012. His play The Defendant was selected for Silo Theatre Company's 2017 Working Titles series and was written with support from Creative New Zealand.

AWARDS

• 1999 PACANZ Young Performer of the Year Winner
• 2002 Playmarket Young Playwrights Competition Winner
• 2004 Story Inc Prize for Poetry – Victoria University Winner
• 2008 Museum Hotel Scholarship – Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School
• 2021 Best Writing (Drama) - Toronto Web Fest for INSiDE.
• 2021 Best Short Form Series – International Emmy Awards 2021 for INSiDE