Dan O'Brien (playwright)

Dan O'Brien
Born	1974 (age 42–43) New York City
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Playwright, poet, librettist
Spouse(s)	Jessica St. Clair
Children	1

Dan O’Brien (born 1974) is an American playwright, poet, and librettist whose work includes the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama-winning play The Body of an American, which premiered at Portland Center Stage in 2012 directed by Bill Rauch, and received its European premiere in an extended run at the Gate Theatre in London and Royal & Derngate in Northampton in 2014, directed by James Dacre. The play will be produced off-Broadway by Primary Stages in New York City in the 2015–2016 season. The Kennedy Prize is shared with Robert Schenkkan's All the Way.The Body of an American is also winner of the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, L. Arnold Weissberger Award, administered by Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the PEN Center USA Award for Drama.The Body of an American was shortlisted for a 2014 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. O'Brien is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow.

O'Brien's debut poetry collection entitled War Reporter was published in 2013 by Hanging Loose Press in Brooklyn and CB Editions in London, edited by Charles Boyle. War Reporter received the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. O'Brien's second collection of poetry, Scarsdale, was published in 2014 by CB Editions in London. O'Brien was recently writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut.

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