Dan O’Brien’s plays include The Body of an American (Primary Stages, New York; Gate Theatre, London), The House in Scarsdale (The Theatre @ Boston Court), The Cherry Sisters Revisited (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival), The Voyage of the Carcass (Page 73 Productions), The Dear Boy (Second Stage Theatre), and many others. His playwriting awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama & Performance Art, the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama, the PEN Center USA Award for Drama, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. Fellowships and residencies include the New Harmony Project, the O’Neill National Playwrights’ Conference, the Sundance Theatre Lab, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, the inaugural Djerassi Fellowship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Tennessee Williams Fellowship at the University of the South. His plays are published by Samuel French, Oberon, and Playscripts. Dan O’Brien: Plays One was recently published in 2017 by Oberon Books in London (distributed in the US by Theatre Communications Group in 2018). O’Brien is also a librettist and an award-winning poet whose collections, War Reporter, Scarsdale, and New Life are published in the US and the UK. Currently working on New Life, a documentary/memoir play about my friend, war reporter Paul Watson, his experience covering the war in Syria, our attempts to pitch said experiences as an American cable TV drama, as well as my recent treatment for cancer. The play is supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship and commissioned by Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. Hoaxers, commissioned by Portland Center Stage (Oregon), a percussion-based experimental rock opera about the daughter of an inveterate “hoaxer” of supernatural phenomena. I’m also researching a commission from the Public Theatre in NYC and Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions Project for a play about the history of guns in America. As for poetry, I’m currently revising Strange City, a collection written in response to my wife’s treatment for cancer, and my own; and composing Survivors Notebook, a book of prose poems about life after treatment.