Dan O'Brien
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Dan O'Brien

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Dan O’Brien is an award-winning playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer. A former Guggenheim Fellow in Drama and Performance Art, his nonfiction has appeared widely in publications including The Times Literary Supplement, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Irish Times, Film Quarterly, and The American Scholar. He is a frequent collaborator with Acre Books, the publisher of his poetry collections, Survivor’s Notebook and Our Cancers, and his forthcoming essay collection, Ash: Catastrophe, Performance, & the Craft. O’Brien’s play The Body of an American won the Horton Foote Prize, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the PEN Center USA Award, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and was shortlisted for London's Evening Standard Award. In 2027 the play will open at LAC Lugano in Switzerland, followed by a tour of the Italian national theaters of Rome, Genoa, and Naples, directed by Jacopo Gassman. His other major dramatic works include Newtown, which earned the Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund Award, and The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage, winner of the PEN America Award. Many of his plays have been published in collected editions by Bloomsbury and Dalkey Archive Press, and individually in acting editions by Concord Theatricals. O’Brien has taught at Princeton University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and numerous other institutions. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actor and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter Isobel.
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