Dan Hefner

Daniel Winston Hefner was born on December 16, 1969 at 5:25 pm. in Lynwood, California. Two minutes later, his parents Tom Hefner and Leah Hefner, were shocked to discover that they were having identical twins, with the arrival of his brother, David Lee Hefner! When Dan was four years old, his parents were fed up with the big city life, so they moved... to the rural rainforests of the Pacific Northwest. During the long rainy seasons, Dan began drawing, writing, and watching countless hours of classic and now classic "scripted" television shows. With his brother, the thirteen year olds collaborated on writing and illustrating several children's "Choose Your Own Adventure" style books. They soon formed their production company, "Hefner Bros. Productions" and converted their shared bedroom into a recording studio. In this makeshift studio, they produced and created audio taped stories complete with sound effects - replicating the radio plays of the Golden Era! Around age 14, they pooled