Dan Rodricks
Baltimore, You Have No Idea
Playwright and narrator
Dan Rodricks was a columnist for The Baltimore Sun from January 1979 until January 2025. He is a former local radio and television host who won several national and regional journalism awards over a reporting, writing and broadcast career spanning five decades.
Currently he writes for Baltimore Fishbowl and provides commentary on politics and American life on Substack, a reader-supported content platform featuring strong independent journalism.
He is the author of three books, including Father's Day Creek: Fly fishing, fatherhood and the last best place on Earth (Apprentice House 2019), and three plays, Baltimore, You Have No Idea, Baltimore Docket and No Mean City: Baltimore 1966.
In August 2024, Dan was named by Baltimore magazine as best playwright in its annual “Best of Baltimore” issue. As for writing a play (and acting in it), the magazine declared, “Well, turns out The Baltimore Sun’s longtime columnist Dan Rodricks can do it all” with the playwright presiding over it all, “like some larger-than-life Jimmy Breslin.”
In January 2026, Dan was featured in Baltimore magazine’s full-length profile about his career as a print columnist and transitioning his storytelling to the stage. In its August 2026 issue, the magazine named No Mean City the year’s best play.