DANIEL O'BRIEN

Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Theater and Dance

Campus Address: Room 118, 185 Nassau Street

Campus Phone: (609) 258-7135

Office Hours: W, 2:30-3:30 PM

E-Mail: dano@princeton.edu

Dan O'Brien(Playwright) has had plays produced at numerous theatres, including the Williamstown Theatre Festival (Moving Picture, 2002), Ensemble Studio Theatre (Am Lit, 2002), The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, California Repertory Company, HERE, Perishable Theatre, Project Y, and Brown University. This season, his play An Irish Play will receive its world premiere with Hudson Stage Company in New York City, and Lamarck will open regionally at Pittsburgh Repertory Theatre. His plays have been developed at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Sundance Theatre Lab, The New Harmony Project, Primary Stages, Magic Theatre, Lark Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company, The Play Company, Rattlestick, Page Seventy-Three Productions, and Manhattan Theatre Club, where he was a playwright-in-residence. He has received playwriting commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and Trinity Repertory Company. His play Lamarck was awarded the Osborn Award by the American Theatre Critics Association; his play An Irish Play was awarded The Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Comedy Playwriting Award; and The Last Supper Restoration won the National Student Playwriting Award and the National AIDS Award for Playwriting (Kennedy Center/ACTF). He is a three-time finalist for the Princess Grace Award, and a four-time nominee for the Weissberger Award. His work has been published by Samuel French, Dramatic Publishing, Playscripts Inc., and in numerous anthologies and journals including Alaska Quarterly Review, Confrontation, and upcoming from Blackbird. Dan also writes fiction; his short stories have been published in the anthology 25 And Under/Fiction (Doubletake/W.W. Norton, 1997), and the journals Greensboro Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Louisville Review, Ellipsis, and forthcoming from Story Quarterly and Quarterly West. He holds a B.A. in English & Theatre from Middlebury College and a Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting & Fiction from Brown University. Dan has taught playwriting at Brown University, Sewanee the University of the South, and been a guest artist at both Middlebury College and The New School; this past year he was the Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence at Sewanee the University of the South. This past summer he served on the playwriting faculty at the Sewanee Writers' Conference.

 

 

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