Publications

Nonfiction

From Scarsdale: A Childhood • Dalkey Archive Press • Audiobook: Audible

A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas • Dalkey Archive Press (USA) • CB Editions (UK)

Poems

Flying on Easter and Other Poems • Poetry London Editions

War Reporter • Hanging Loose Press (USA) • CB Editions (UK) 

Plays

True Story: A Trilogy • Dalkey Archive Press 

The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage • Bloomsbury 

Dan O’Brien: Plays One [The Body of an American, The House in Hydesville, The Cherry Sisters Revisited, The Voyage of the Carcass, The Dear Boy] • Bloomsbury

The Body of an American • Samuel French (acting edition) • Bloomsbury (trade)

The Angel in the Trees and Other Monologues • Salamander Street (UK)

Key West • Broadway Play Publishing

Facing Our Truth: Ten Minute Plays on Trayvon, Race and Privilege [by Quetzal Flores, Marcus Gardley, Tala Manassah, Mona Mansour, Winter Miller, Dominique Morisseau, Dan O'Brien, A. Rey Pamatmat] • Samuel French 

Visitations: Theotokia & The War Reporter (libretti) • Blackbird

The Cherry Sisters Revisited • Playscripts

The Dear Boy • Blackbird

The Voyage of the Carcass • Playscripts

The Disappearance of Daniel Hand • Playscripts

Am Lit, or Hibernophilia • Playscripts

“Will You Please Shut Up?” • Playscripts

either/or • Playscripts

An Irish Play • Dramatic Publishing

The Last Supper Restoration • Samuel French