Darrell Larson is an actor, director, and poet.

Best known for playing Coyote in Murray Mednick’s epic seven play THE COYOTE CYCLE. Originally produced at the Padua Playwright’s Workshop and Festival, from 1977 to 1984, eventually the cycle was performed in outdoor settings, from dusk to dawn, in Los Angeles, San

Francisco, Santa Fe and Martha’s Vineyard. He directed Mednick’s ARE YOU LOOKIN’, starring Ed Harris (LA). He has directed eight plays by Sam Shepard: COWBOY MOUTH (also starring Ed Harris), MAD DOG BLUES (LA), SIMPATICO (Florida Shakespeare, also acting), THE SAD LAMENT OF PECOS BILL ON THE EVE OF KILLING HIS WIFE (NY), KILLER’S HEAD (NY and LA), THE UNSEEN HAND (LA). Besides Shepard, he directed his own adaptations of Bob Dylan’s TARANTULA, two plays by Denis Johnson: PSYCHOS NEVER DREAM (SF) and SHOPPERS CARRIED BY ESCALATORS INTO THE FLAMES (NY), and Steve Earle’s KARLA (Nashville).

Other stage acting credits include Shepard’s CURSE OF THE STARVING CLASS (NY), the Captain in Strindberg’s DANCE OF DEATH, Rip Van Winkle in RIP AWAKES, (both at the Odyssey, LA).

In film he stars as the doomed Pete in MIKE’S MURDER, directed by James Bridges, opposite Debra Winger. Other films include TWICE IN A LIFETIME, MEN AT WORK, STEPMOM, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, and more.