News
Reading
of New Life at Rogue Machine Theatre May 22nd at 8pm, performed by Tim Cummings and Dan O’Brien, and directed by Mark Armstrong.
Reading
Poet Ruben Quesada hosts an LA Times Festival of Books offsite reading with writers Carribean Fragoza, Luivette Resto, Dan O’Brien, Colby Cotton, and Nik De Dominic at the Poetic Research Bureau on April 27.
“Writers on Writing”
A Conversation with Dan O’Brien and J.M. Tyree at Middlebury College.
“Top 5 Stage Performances to Stream This Weekend”
from TDF Stages lists The Other Jack.
Reading
of The Other Jack available to stream from the Lucille Lortel Theatre April 8-22. With actors Jasmine Blackborow and Nathaniel Parker, directed by James Dacre, and produced by Caridad Svich. Adapted from the book by Charles Boyle. RSVP here.
“Dear Family"
in Esquire.
“An Irish Play Revisited”
in The Irish Times.
Irish Premiere
of An Irish Play with the Clonmel Theatre Guild, directed by Bea Conner-Pohl.
Readings
Acre Books Showcase on March 27 at the Village Well in Culver City. Hanging Loose Press reading on March 31 at Phase Gallery in LA.
Book Signing
at the AWP Conference and Bookfair in Los Angeles on March 29: Survivor’s Notebook & Our Cancers 10:30 to 11:30 at the Acre Books table; A Story That Happens, From Scarsdale: A Childhood & True Story: A Trilogy noon to 1 at the Dalkey Archive Press / Deep Vellum table; War Reporter & New Life 1 to 2 at the Hanging Loose Press table.
“40 Questions About a Political Play”
available for preorder from Calque Press.
Newtown
nominated for 2024 BroadwayWorld Awards for Best Play, Best Direction, Best Performance, Best Lighting Design, Best Scenic Design, and Best Sound Design.
Newtown
in "Favorite Boston-Area Stage Productions of 2024" in The Arts Fuse.
"The Voices of Doctors"
from Flying on Easter and Other Poems and Survivor's Notebook featured at Verse Daily.
Four Poems
from Survivor's Notebook and Flying on Easter and Other Poems featured at Medmic.
Podcast Interview
on Drunk as a Poet on Payday with Jason Gray.
Reading
at Diesel Bookstore in Los Angeles with Christian Gullette and Noah Warren.
Review
by Nicola Healey of Survivor's Notebook in Wild Court.
Flying on Easter
from Poetry London Editions launched at Goldsmiths, University of London, along with Grey Coats and Nokia Phones by Jemilea Wisdom-Baako, and Drunk Daddy's Girl by Madara Gruntmane.
Reading
from Flying on Easter and Survivor's Notebook with Sasha Dugdale, Maya C. Popa, and Lesley Wheeler at Shore Poets in Edinburgh, and with Tessa Berring, Gerry Cambridge, Lauren Pope, and Rob A. Mackenzie at Augustine United Church in Edinburgh.
Review
by Amanda Newell of Survivor's Notebook in Plume Poetry.
Interview
on Analyze Scripts Podcast about Newtown and From Scarsdale: A Childhood.
Newtown
receives the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation's Theatre Visions Fund Award.
"Why You Should See Newtown, a New Play About the Sandy Hook Shooting"
in Esquire.
Interview
about Newtown on NPR's Connections with Evan Dawsen.
"The Playwright as Documentarian"
David DeWitt on Newtown, True Story: A Trilogy, and more in The Arts Fuse.
Survivor's Notebook
in "Spring Poetry Roundup: Mini Catechisms in Verse" in America Magazine.
Newtown
opens April 20 at Geva Theatre, directed by Elizabeth Williamson, with actors Kate Abbruzzese, Max Chernin, Kellie Overbey, and Jonathan Walker. More info here.
From Scarsdale: A Childhood
reviewed by Will Zimmerman in the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Key Reporter.
From Scarsdale: A Childhood
reviewed by James Cook in the Times Literary Supplement.
"Writing in Truth and in Full, with Dan O'Brien"
by Will Zimmerman in Phi Beta Kappa's The Key Reporter.
"Carnivorous"
a prose poem from Survivor's Notebook in The Cortland Review.
"Conversations at the Alcove"
with Caridad Svich, playwright and co-Aristic Director of the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Watch here.
True Story: A Trilogy
published January 2 by Dalkey Archive Press.
From Scarsdale: A Childhood and Survivor's Notebook
in the fall books roundup from New England Review.
Poems
from Survivor's Notebook in Bennington Review, Laurel Review, and Southword.
Survivor's Notebook
reviewed by Jesi Bender in Exacting Clam.
Featured Poet
interview at Hanging Loose Press.
Interview
in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Interview
about From Scarsdale with Joseph Planta for The Commentary podcast.
Reading
at University of Oregon. More info here.
Interview
about Survivor's Notebook, From Scarsdale, and True Story: A Trilogy at Chapter 16.
Essay
in Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly. Launch reading at Stories Books & Cafe.
Reading
from Survivor's Notebook on Poetry Worth Hearing.
Interview
about True Story: A Trilogy in Good River Review.
Essay
in Poetry London.
Essay
at Literary Hub.
From Scarsdale: A Childhood
published Oct. 10 by Dalkey Archive Press.
"Napping After Cancer"
from Survivor's Notebook featured at Literary Hub.
Survivor's Notebook
on the Featured Fall Book List at Academy of American Poets.
Reading
at BookEater in Rochester, NY, Thursday Oct. 5 at 7pm.
Interview
about Survivor's Notebook with Joseph Planta for The Commentary podcast.
Personal Essay
in the Washington Post.
Interview
with Erin Slaughter for The Lives of Writers podcast.
Survivor's Notebook
published Sept. 15 by Acre Books.
AP News
covers book event for Survivor's Notebook, From Scarsdale, & Stand Up To Cancer with this video interview.
Interviewed
by Jessica St. Clair on The Deep Dive.
Book Launch
Sept. 7th @6:30pm PST at Diesel Bookstore in Los Angeles for Survivor's Notebook (poems),From Scarsdale (memoir), and True Story: A Trilogy (plays). Recording of the event here. Photos here. Raising funds for Stand Up To Cancer. Guest readers include Casey Wilson, Dan O'Brien, Danielle Schneider, Jason Mantzoukas, Jessica St. Clair, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, June Diane Raphael, Kyle Bornheimer, Lennon Parham, Melissa Rauch, Nate Corddry, Noah Bean, Paul Scheer, & Tony Hale.
Podcast Interviews
on Plucking Up with Liz Bohannon, Finding Favorites with Leah Jones, and The Poetry Show with Daphne Stanford on Radio Boise.
Interviews
in Tupelo Quarterly and Shoutout LA.
"Sibling Rivalry: Amadeus and the Artist Revisited"
in The Hinge of a Metaphor: A Collection of Essays on Cinema from Vanguard Editions. Available here.
Poems
from the forthcoming Survivor's Notebook in Bad Lilies, The Fiddlehead, North American Review, Poetry Salzburg, The Southern Review, Sugar House Review, and Under the Radar.
Review
of Robert Selby's The Kentish Rebellion in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Dalkey Archive Press
to publish From Scarsdale: A Childhood (memoir) and True Story: A Trilogy (drama) in September.
Survivor's Notebook
in Adult Books for Fall 2023 from Publishers Weekly.
New Play Commission
from the Lucille Lortel Theatre's new play development program, The Alcove. More information at Playbill.
Newtown
to premiere in the 2023-24 season at Geva Theatre Center, directed by Elizabeth Williamson.
Survivor's Notebook
available for preorder from Acre Books.
Poems
in Briar Cliff Review, Exacting Clam, Fenland Poetry Journal, Greensboro Review, The Moth, Raceme, Wild Court, and Witness.
A Remembrance
for Andrew Leynse in American Theatre Magazine.
Playwriting Faculty
with David Adjmi, Brittany Allen, & Talene Monahon at the 2023 Sewanee Writers' Conference.
A Conversation
with Amanda Newell at Plume Poetry, including poems from Survivor's Notebook(forthcoming from Acre Books, Sept. '23).
Poem
in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal.
Review
in Wild Court by James Peake of Our Cancers: A Chronicle in Poems and A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas (CB Editions UK, Dalkey Archive Press US).
Podcast
interview with Iris Bahr on X-Rae.
Review
by Sophie Thomas of Our Cancers in Magma Poetry.
Poem
in Plume Poetry 10.
"In Praise of Poet Voice"
essay in Literary Hub.
Sunday Salon Chicago
with Toya Wolfe, Dan O'Brien, Joann Smith, & Robert Vaughan. July 31st at 6pm CST via Zoom. Registration here.
A Conversation
with poet Rob Mackenzie in Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal.
Two Poems
in Northwest Review.
"Out of the War Zone: A Conversation Between Paul Watson and Dan O'Brien"
at Los Angeles Review of Books.
Borges and Me
in the 2022 Orchard Project Adaptation Lab.
Interview
with Daphne Stanford on The Poetry Show from Boise Radio.
Residency
at the 2022 New Harmony Project.
Feature
"Out of Darkness" in Brown Alumni Magazine.
Interview
A video conversation with Melinda Pfundstein about Our Cancers and A Story That Happens, hosted by Sugar House Review.
Interview
on Jenn Habel's podcast The Brief from the Elliston Poetry Room at University of Cincinnati.
"Playwriting and Beyond: Playwrights Discuss Moving Into Writing Different Forms"
Virtual panel at AWP Conference with Jacqueline Goldfinger, Beth Kander-Dauphin, Dan O'Brien, & Charise Castro Smith.
"The Essential Value--and Deep Cost--of Reporting From War"
at Literary Hub.
National Institute of Health / National Library of Medicine
includes Our Cancers in the NNLM Reading Club for March.
Review
by Stephen Wilson of Our Cancers in the Times Literary Supplement.
Review
by Indira Ganesan of Our Cancers in the Phi Beta Kappa Society's Key Reporter.
Review
by Caridad Svich of A Story That Happens in Contemporary Theatre Review.
Playwriting Faculty
at the 2022 Sewanee Writers' Conference with Nathan Alan Davis, and Liliana Padilla.
"12 Favorite Books of 2021"
by Rob Mackenzie at Surroundings Two incudes Our Cancers.
"10 Best New Playwriting Books to Read in 2022"
including A Story That Happens at Book Authority.
Review
by J.D. Schraffenberger of Our Cancers in North American Review.
Review
by Megan Kuklis of Our Cancers in The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal.
Interview
about A Story That Happens at Chapter 16, in the Nashville Scene, and the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Interview
by Ryan Buxton in Katie Couric Media.
Excerpt
from A Story That Happens (Dalkey Archive, US / CB Editions, UK) in Poetry London.
New poems
in Bennington Review and 14 Magazine.
Reading
at National Poetry Library Presents: Poetry London's 100th Issue at Southbank Centre. Other readers include Moniza Alvi, Romalyn Ante, Fred D'Aguiar, Pascale Petit, Christopher Reid, and hosted by André Naffis-Sahely.
Excerpt
from Our Cancers at Chapter 16.
Interview
with Jessica St. Clair & Dan O'Brien in Entertainment Weekly.
The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
live-read Sept. 29 at 7:30pm via Play-PerView (available on-demand through Oct. 3), featuring Alex Draper and Dan O'Brien, and directed by Christian Parker. Benefitting Boston Court Pasadena.
Interview
with Stephen Fee on The PEN Pod from PEN America.
"Second-Act Problems"
in American Theatre magazine.
Playbill
includes A Story That Happens and Our Cancers in Must-Read Fall Books.
Interview
with Jessica St. Clair & Dan O'Brien on NPR's Bullseye with Jesse Thorn.
Excerpt
from A Story That Happens at Literary Hub.
Excerpt
from Our Cancers at Literary Hub.
Excerpt
from A Story That Happens at The American Scholar.
Publication Day
for Our Cancers: A Chronicle in Poems from Acre Books, and A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas from Dalkey Archive Press.
Interview
in Playbill about A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas.
Double Book Launch
for Our Cancers and A Story That Happens hosted online by Skylight Books 9/14 at 7pm EST / 4pm PST. More info here.
Visiting Faculty
in the Goddard College MFA Creative Writing Program.
"Fallout: Writing & the Half-Life of Trauma"
reading & craft conversation with Alan Shapiro, hosted by Plume. Register here.
Playwriting Faculty
at the 2021 Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Residency
at the 2021 New Harmony Project.
"Unspeakable: Speech on Stage"
in As We Were Saying: Sewanee Writers on Writing, new anthology from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and LSU Press.
"Second Acts": Theatre post-Covid
essay in The Stage.
New Poems
in Birmingham Poetry Review, Cyphers, Magma Poetry, New England Review, and The Southern Review.
A Story That Happens
reviewed by Alice Jolly in the Times Literary Supplement.
Excerpt
from A Story That Happens in the Washington Post.
Profile
in the Los Angeles Times.
"Drop the Mask"
with music by John Colpitts performed by Lennon Parham for the 24 Hour Plays: Viral Musicals.
Reading
from A Story That Happens, along with playwrights Jacqueline Goldfinger and Elyzabeth Wilder, in the Sewanee Writers' Conference Reading Series, Thursday May 6 at 8pm EST. Register here.
A Story That Happens
US edition to be published in September by Dalkey Archive Press, an imprint of Deep Vellum.
Interview
at Los Angeles Review of Books with Lina Patel about A Story That Happens.
Interview
at Playbill with Dan Meyer about A Story That Happens.
Our Cancers
from Acre Books available for pre-order here.
A Story That Happens
listed as one of "16 Theatre Books to Read This Spring" by Playbill.
"Dog's Best Friend"
performed by Terry Kinney for the 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues.
A Story That Happens
reviewed by Jonas Schwartz-Owen at BroadwayWorld.
A Story That Happens
excerpted in The Guardian.
Interview
at BroadwayWorld about A Story That Happens.
A Story That Happens
excerpted in American Theatre.
A Story That Happens
available to pre-order from CB Editions.
Playwriting Faculty
at the 2021 Sewanee Writers' Conference with Naomi Iizuka, Liliana Padilla, and Lloyd Suh.
"The Faces of Doctors" & "Her First Day"
in issue 242 of Ambit.
"Four Years Later"
at the Cedars Sinai blog.
"The Faces of Doctors"
read at launch of Ambit 242.
Two Month Review
podcast discussing William Gaddis's J R with hosts Chad Post and Brian Wood.
"The Knot"
from Scarsdale (CB Editions / UK; Measure Press / US) featured at E-Verse Radio.
An Open Letter
in support of playwrights to the Biden-Harris administration. Part of a nationwide campaign organized by Be An Arts Hero and The Dramatists Guild of America.
Four Prose Poems
in the new issue of Blackbird.
Pushcart Prize Nomination
for "The Future," published in Sugar House Review. A reading by the poet here.
Key West
published by Broadway Play Publishing.
"Permafrost"
performed by Tim Guinee in the 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues, benefitting Gilda's Club NYC.
The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
streaming as part of PTP/NYC's 34th Season, performed by the playwright with Alex Draper and directed by Christian Parker.
Interview
with Broadwayworld on PTP/NYC's presentation of The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage.
Reading
with novelist Jill McCorkle Sept. 29 at 8pm EST as part of the Sewanee Writers' Conference Fall Reading Series.
"Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage"
published by Literary Hub.
The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues
published by Salamander Street.
"Gethsemane"
in North American Review's Open Space.
Essay
on resilience written with Jessica St. Clair in the New York Times.
Prose poems
in 32 Poems, The Fiddlehead: Atlantic Canada's International Literary Journal, The Hopkins Review, North American Review, and Sugar House Review.
In Residence
with the 2020 Orchard Project Professional Lab.
"Unknown Caller"
included in The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues, New Monologues Created During the Coronavirus Pandemic published by Methuen Drama and edited by Howard Sherman.
"Marriage"
published by America Magazine.
Podcast Interview
with Jessica St. Clair & Dan O'Brien on Middlebury Magazine's Midd Moment hosted by President Laurie Patton.
"The Nurse"
prose poem in the new issue of The Moth.
"Without Evidence: Reopening as Remission"
in The American Scholar.
"After Krapp"
monologue performed by Evan Handler for the 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues.
Our Cancers
to be published in 2021 by Acre Books.
"Good Friday 2"
from Survivor's Notebook published in the miCRo Series from The Cincinnati Review.
Masterclass
"Who Am I?": Character on Stage offered online via the Sewanee Writers' Conference.
"Lost and Found, Anguish and Grace"
essay on The Three Christs of Ypsilanti in the Times Literary Supplement.
The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues
"Unknown Caller" performed by Jessica St. Clair.
"Life Shrinks: Lessons From Chemo Quarantine"
in the Times Literary Supplement.
In Residence
at the 2020 New Harmony Project.
Playwriting Faculty
at the 2020 Sewanee Writers' Conference.
"Will You Please Shut Up?"
produced by Tiyatro 8.065 in Istanbul.
Jannetta Lecture
delivered at the U.S. Air Force Academy 10 September 2019 recording.
A Tribute
to Wyatt Prunty & Sewanee Writers' Conference in the new Sewanee Review.
"The Drama of Conflict"
online at Paris Review.
New Life
in workshop at PlayLabs at the Playwrights' Center, with Michael Michetti directing and performed by Tim Guinee and the playwright.
Reading
The Thirteenth Annual David L. Jannetta Distinguished Lecture in War, Literature & the Arts at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado on September 10, 2019.
Readings
at the Utah Humanities Book Festival Sept. 17 at the Southern Utah Museum of Art in Cedar City, and Sept. 18 in Salt Lake City with poet Natalie Young.
Poems
in Salamander, Smoke, and Stand.
The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
available now from Oberon Books in London.
Interview
in Poetry Wales.
"Dear Brother"
excerpt from a memoir-in-progress in New England Review.
"Why We Like It: Newtown, by Dan O'Brien"
by Alison Carey of Oregon Shakespeare Festival at the Cincinnati Review.
Reading
with Kathryn Harris and Mark Halliday at The Troubadour in London on June 10.
Reading
with Briony Bax, Isabel Galleymore, Kiare Ladner, and Gboyega Odubanjo in 'A Potted History of Ambit' at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival in London on June 8.
Reading
at Caius College in Cambridge May 25th at 5pm with Charles Boyle, Sasha Dugdale, and James Womack.
"Adam's Mother"
the first act of play-in-progress Newtown (commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festivaland the Public Theater) published in Cincinnati Review.
Reading
May 7 at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh with Alycia Pirmohamed & David Hopkins.
Poems
in Smartish Pace.
Podcast
interview with James Scott.
Reading
at Ambit 235 launch at Tate Modern in London.
Playwriting Faculty
with Naomi Iizuka at the 2019 Sewanee Writers' Conference.
Workshop: "Narrative Poetry in Troubled Times"
at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich, England. Part of the 60th Anniversay Celebration of Ambit Magazine.
Poems
in Ambit, The Dark Horse, North American Review, & Poetry Wales.
"The First Time"
in Middlebury Magazine.
The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
wins 2018 PEN America Award for Drama.
Fellow
at the 2018 War, Literature & the Arts Conference at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado, September 20-21.
The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage
at Boston Court Pasadena receives five Stage Raw Theatre Award nominations for Playwriting, Production, Acting, Lighting Design, Video Design.
Playwriting Faculty
with Lauren Yee at the 2018 Sewanee Writers' Conference.
"Long Days"
excerpt from New Life in the Sewanee Review.
Poems & a Play
in the new Blackbird.
New Life
presented in the L.A. Writers' Workshop Festival at the Kirk Douglas Theatre. With actors Tim Guinee and Brian Henderson, and director Neel Keller and dramaturg Joy Meads. Interview here.
Hoaxers
workshopped at Portland Center Stage with composer John Colpitts, director Michael Michetti, dramaturg Ben Fainstein, actors Satomi Blair, Nick Ferrucci, Gavin Hoffman, Alex Ramirez, and percussionists Dianna Hnatiw & Taylor Long.
New Poems
in spring issues of And Other Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cell Poems, Cyphers, The Fiddlehead, Poetry Ireland Review, & The Saint Ann's Review.
Dan O'Brien: Plays One
US edition published April 3. Order here.
New Life
in development at the 2018 New Harmony Project. In collaboration with Paul Watson and director Elizabeth Williamson, with actors Michael Crane and Tim Guinee.
New Life
reading at Primary Stages February 26th with Michael Crane and Tim Guinee. Directed by Terry Kinney.
Interview
in Phi Beta Kappa's The Key Reporter.
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards
The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage receives five nominations for Writing, Direction, Lead Performance, Lighting Design, and CGI/Video. More information.
"Of Time and the Theatre"
excerpted at Literary Hub.