Alpert Award in the Arts (2004) MacDowell Colony Fellowship (2003) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2002) New York Dance and Performance award (2001)
Village Voice OBIE Award (1990)
Performance works include: No(thing so powerful as) Truth (1995); Constance and Ferdinand (1991) with Victoria Marks; Quintland (The Musical)[4] (1992); The Jazz Section (1989) with Dan Froot; and two toy theater pieces, The Day the Ketchup Turned Blue (1997) from the short story by John C. Russell, and Who's Hungry?/West Hollywood (2008) with Dan Froot.[5] His large puppet piece Hiroshima Maiden (2004),[6][7][8] with an Obie Award winning score by Robert Een, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse and was awarded a UNIMA citation of excellence. Disfarmer (2009), a puppet piece about American photographer Mike Disfarmer, premiered at St. Ann's Warehouse and is the subject of the 2011 documentary Puppet, by David Soll.[9]
Dan Hurlin is the recipient of several awards including the 2004 Alpert Award for theater,[13] a 1990 Obie Award for his solo adaptation of Nathanael West's A Cool Million,[14][15] and a 2001 Bessie Award for his suite of puppet pieces Everyday Uses for Sight Nos. 3 & 7, a collaboration with composer Guy Klucevsek.[16]
^Solomon, Alisa (17 April 1990). "Review: A Cool Million"(PDF). Village Voice. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2012.