Studied playwriting with Kenneth Cameron at the University of Iowa.
M.F.A., Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas (1974).
Associated as writer and director with many gay theatre companies in San Francisco, including Theater Rhinoceros, Gay Men's Theatre Collective, Gay Theater Alliance, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, and the Earnest Players, which he established with Daniel Curzon.
Became personal secretary to Tennessee Williams in 1976.
Diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma in February 1982, one of the first patients of Dr. Paul Volberding, San Francisco General Hospital.
Prior to his death, he was known as the oldest living person with AIDS.

WORKS:

(As listed in finding guide of archive; dates as available; many works never completed or produced).

MUSICALS (AS COMPOSER)

A - A new musical based on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1976)
Music by Dan Turner and Luanne Nelson, Book and Lyrics by Dan Turner.

Comeback: A Musical in Two Acts (1979)
Music by Dan Turner, Book by Daniel Curzon, Lyrics by Daniel Curzon and Dan Turner.

No Mince Pieces: A Musical (1981)
Music by Dan Turner, Lyrics by Daniel Curzon.

Cinderella II: Happily Ever After (1984)
Music by Dan Turner, Book by Daniel Curzon, Lyrics by Daniel Curzon and Dan Turner.
Performed in San Francisco, 1984 by The Angels of Light, David Hillbard, Director, Scrumbly Koldewyn, Musical Director.

MUSICALS (AS WRITER), PLAYS & FILMS

Aunt Adele and Uncle Aloysin
Born in Holywood (1986), musical play
The Cop, The Nun, and the Fag (1980), one act play
A Dialogue for Six: A Dance Poem
Frigid in Figi
Getting to Know the Natives (1974), musical play
Giraffes are Dreaming, play
In Search of a New Moon (1975), one act play
Last Resort
Loophole, typescript of musical play
The Mummy (1988), film script
Pearls of Wisdom, play
Pink, one act play
The People Next Door
Pyramid
The Queen is Dead, 3 scenes
Renovations, play
Shakespeare Rap
The Silent Pharaoh (1988-89)
The Statue of Love: A Fairy Tale in Two Acts
Sunny Day, film script
Time Order and Time Cues, television or film script
The Workout, play

FICTION, POETRY & PROSE

Alien, short story
The Boy in the White Suit
Caddie in the Rough
The Curve of Clancy's Bubble
Fill 'er Up
Four Poems
The Girl Who Had Bumps on Her Head
Hotel Poems
Life on Grove Street, short story
Nice Men Do Not Go Out Alone
Primary Colors in Conversation: Yellow, Blue, Red, poems
Quickies: A Collection of Gay Short Stories:
     God Had Buns
     Fill 'er Up
     The Boy in the White Suit
     Hot House Plants
     The Juicer
Rags to Riches, poem
Roach
The Sensual Body
Son of Sally Bowles/Chapter One
A Tennessee Waltz
Vista-Peace Corp
Why Trees Lose Their Leaves
Three Stories:
     Taught to Obey
     Fill 'er Up
     The 24 Hour

OTHER WORKS:

Interview with Armistead Maupin (ca. 1977).
Theater reviews and interviews for Bay Area Reporter and other gay publications.
Produced a series of educational slide shows for Harcourt Brace Javonovitch.
Some of his short erotic fiction published in gay magazines including In Touch and Blueboy.

UNCOMPLETED WORKS:
An autobiography (with Stuart Rawlings), One Day at a Time, My Life with AIDS.

WRITINGS:
Unknown

DISCOGRAPHY:
Unknown

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

• "AIDS Patients Use Mental Tricks To Fight Disease" by Lori Olszewski, San Francisco Chronicle, January 16, 1989.
• "Beating The Odds On AIDS: As Survival Times Increase, Victims Are Living Fuller Lives" by Torri Minton, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 1989 (includes profile of Turner).
• "Dan Turner's Diaries," an interview with Ulysses D'Aquila by John Gilgun, Our Stories, Newsletter of the Gay and Lesbian Historical Society of Northern California, Fall 1990.

PERFORMING RIGHTS AFFILIATION:
Unknown

RESOURCES:
Unknown

LITERARY EXECUTOR:
Ulysses D'Aquila
320 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 325-1701 or (415) 310-6644

OTHER CONTACTS:
Unknown