Dan O'Brien (playwright)

For other people named Dan O'Brien, see Dan O'Brien (disambiguation).

Dan O’Brien is an American playwright whose plays include The Body of an American, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti, The Cherry Sisters Revisited, The Voyage of the Carcass, The Dear Boy, The House in Hydesville, Moving Picture, Key West, "Will You Please Shut Up?", and The Disappearance of Daniel Hand. His work has been produced by Second Stage Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geva Theatre Center, Page 73 Productions, The Production Company, SoHo Playhouse, and elsewhere. He has served as a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, the Djerassi Fellow in Playwriting at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and as the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at The University of the South (Sewanee). He has frequently served on the playwriting faculty at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. His work has been developed at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, The New Harmony Project, and elsewhere. Many of his plays are published by Playscripts, Inc. A song cycle entitled Theotokia (Hymn to the Mother of God), with music by Jonathan Berger and text by Dan O'Brien, premiered at the 2010 Spoleto Festival USA, performed by Dawn Upshaw.

O'Brien is the recipient of a 2011 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency. He is a graduate of Brown University's playwriting program and Middlebury College. In 1996-97 O'Brien received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for travel and independent study in Ireland and the U.K. Awards include the American Theatre Critics Association's Osborn Award for Best New Play by an Emerging Playwright.

O'Brien's poetry and fiction have appeared in many literary journals and magazines including 5 AM, StoryQuarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Pinch, Greensboro Review, Crab Orchard Review, 32 poems, Bellevue Literary Review, Iodine, South Carolina Review, America, and Margie.

O'Brien lives in Los Angeles and is married to actor and writer Jessica St. Clair.

External links

• Doollee, The playwrights database.
• Author website.
• L Magazine interview.
• 2010 Humana Festival Newsletter.
• City Pages.
• Poem at Linebreak.org.

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