Dan Blick

Writer · Director · Actor

Dan
Blick

British writer and director making films and plays about people at the edge of what they can say to each other.

New YorkLondonStockholm
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Black Lake: a man stands at the edge of a lake at dusk, looking out over the shallows

Debut feature · Writer / Director · 2026

Black Lake

A grieving couple's marriage unravels over a disastrous family weekend, as buried secrets and desire rise to the surface.

Starring Mitchell Pope and Tora Hallström. Adapted from Dan's stage play Lake George, which premiered Off-Broadway at the Chain Theatre. Produced by Telos Ensemble.

blacklakefilm.com Instagram · @blacklakefilm

Festival run

Black Lake is on the festival circuit through 2026 and 2027, following private industry screenings in New York and London.

Selections will be announced on @blacklakefilm.

Stills

12 frames

Int. Kitchen — 6:30 AM · Next up

Peptide Club

Short film · Writer / Director · Shooting 19–20 December 2026

On the morning of his quarterly presentation, a by-the-book marketing professional just wants his coffee. His manic, kimono-clad roommate wants to talk about Freddie Mercury, and has invited a stranger from Reddit round to collect a ‘little bit of drugs’.

A two-hander comedy that turns, in its final minute, into something else entirely. First staged at a Telos Purgatory evening, now going from stage to screen.

Cast
Mitchell Pope as Tim
George Kareman as Eric
Tone
Peep Show meets Pineapple Express meets Good Time
Produced by
Telos Ensemble

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Work

Selected

Ext. — Screen

  • Black LakeFeature film. Writer and director.Festival run, 2026
  • Peptide ClubShort film. Writer and director.Shooting December 2026
  • GallowglassShort film. Writer.In development

Int. — Stage

  • TelosTelos Ensemble's debut production, brought back for an extended run the following year.Chain Theatre, NYC · Sep 2023
    Extended run · May–Jun 2024
  • Lake GeorgePremiered Off-Broadway as an AEA showcase after starting life as a Purgatory reading; adapted into the feature Black Lake.Chain Theatre, NYC · Nov 2024
    Extended run · Mar 2025
  • ConcupiscenceOne-act. Selected for the Chain Theatre Winter One-Act Festival.Chain Theatre, NYC · Feb 2025
  • CastlesThree sold-out performances in London, then a Stockholm debut.Drayton Arms, London · Sep 2025
    PIK Vasastan, Stockholm · Feb 2026

New plays

  • EllipsisA psychological drama for five actors, running 75 minutes without an interval.Unproduced
  • Halfway HouseA dark comedy about affluent American twenty-somethings home for Christmas in Calabasas.Unproduced
  • Paris is Dead1967. A man arrives from Paris at his old friend's door, and the marriage inside starts to come apart. Four actors, one apartment; developed through Purgatory.Unproduced

The Purgatory series

Telos Ensemble's reading series of new short plays, performed for an audience with drinks to follow. Every edition has featured original pieces by Dan. It is where the company's work starts: Lake George began as a Purgatory reading, and Peptide Club was first staged there before going to camera.

  • Edition IPRIVY Gallery, New YorkDec 2024
  • Edition IIPRIVY Gallery, New YorkFeb 2025
  • Edition IIIOmnibus Theatre, LondonApr 2025
  • Edition IVUnit J, BrooklynJul 2025
  • Edition VUnit J, BrooklynFeb 2026
  • Edition VIPluto's Loft, New YorkApr 2026
  • Edition VIILittle Boxes Theatre, San Francisco & Earl Gallery, Los AngelesJul 2026
  • Edition VIIIOmnibus Theatre, LondonSep 2026
  • Edition IXPluto's Loft, New YorkOct 2026
  • Edition XStockholm10 Dec 2026

Published prose & poetry

Poetry and prose, drawn to the sentence-driven, essayistic end of fiction, where the line between life and the page runs thin.

Novel · In progress

  • MeridianA first novel, moving between New York, Valencia and Sicily.Not yet published

On set

Directing & rehearsal

Festivals & press

Acting

Selected credits
Dan Blick in Dimes Square, standing at the centre of a crowded loft party scene, looking down at a laughing woman on a sofa
Dimes Square · by Matthew Gasda
Watch the acting reel

Film

  • Shades of VisionLeadDir. Wylie Soltes
  • AfterloveLeadDir. Philippe Bosher
  • YlemLeadDir. Una O'Sullivan

Television

  • CursedCo-starNetflix
  • George Washington: RevolutionCo-starFox
  • Sins of the SouthCo-starOxygen
  • Lethally BlondeCo-starInvestigation Discovery

Theatre

  • Dimes SquareLeadMatthew Gasda
  • The Coming StormLeadTheater for the New City
  • TelosLeadChain Theatre, Off-Broadway
  • Lamb to the SlaughterLeadChain Theatre
  • A View from the BridgeRodolphoDir. Myles O'Gorman
  • MacbethDuncanClementine Players

Commercial

  • Lemonade InsuranceLeadLemonade
  • RipplingLeadSLMBR Party
  • InokimLeadJohnny Puetz Productions

About

Biography

Dan Blick is a British writer, director and actor, and co-founder of Telos Ensemble, a theatre and film company working across New York, London and Stockholm.

He trained at the William Esper Studio in New York under Suzanne Esper, and in the UK with Adrian Noble, Philippe Bosher and the National Youth Theatre. As an actor he has appeared on Netflix, Fox and Oxygen, and Off-Broadway. His plays Telos, Lake George and Concupiscence premiered Off-Broadway at the Chain Theatre, with extended runs for Telos and Lake George; in London his work has been staged at the Omnibus Theatre and the Drayton Arms, and Castles transferred to Stockholm in 2026.

His debut feature as writer and director, Black Lake, adapted from Lake George, is on the 2026 festival circuit.

Dan holds a BA in Theology and Religious Studies from St John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded the Sheikh Zayed Prize for distinction in Islamic Studies.

Dan Blick on the Black Lake set, sitting cross-legged with a field monitor and headphones
On set · Black Lake
Company
Telos Ensemble — Artistic Director & Head of Writing
Training
William Esper Studio, New York (two-year conservatory); Drama Lab and National Youth Theatre, London; Oxford Theatre Academy
Education
St John's College, Cambridge
Based
Brooklyn & London
Dan Blick and Mitchell Pope seated in two chairs against a white wall
Dan Blick & Mitchell Pope, co-founders

Founded in 2023 with Mitchell Pope, Telos Ensemble takes new writing from page to stage to screen, working with Meisner-trained actors. Its productions have played the Chain Theatre in New York, the Omnibus Theatre and the Drayton Arms in London, and PIK Vasastan in Stockholm, alongside the Purgatory series of new short plays.

New York · London · Stockholm

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