Dan O'Brien is a playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer whose recognition for playwriting includes a Guggenheim Fellowship, two PEN America Awards, the Horton Foote Prize, and for poetry the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His latest play Newtown premiered at Geva Theatre in 2024 and received the Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund Award. O'Brien's plays have premiered in London, off-Broadway, and at regional theaters including Second Stage Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, SoHo Playhouse, and the Gate Theatre. He has published five collections of poetry in the US and in the UK, including the prize-winning War Reporter, praised in The Guardian as “a masterpiece of truthfulness and feeling.” In 2023 O'Brien published three books: True Story: A Trilogy (plays), From Scarsdale: A Childhood (memoir), and Survivor's Notebook (prose poems). He has taught playwriting at Princeton University, Brown Universiy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of the South (Sewanee), Goddard College MFA, and has served as a Guest Artist at Grinnell College, Middlebury College, Occidental College, and elsewhere. Originally from New York, O'Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.