Dan O’Brien (playwriting) was a Hodder Fellow Playwright-in-Residence at Princeton University, and the inaugural Djerassi Fellow in Playwriting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His plays include The Cherry Sisters Revisited (Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival), The House in Hydesville (Geva Theatre Center), The Voyage of the Carcass (Stage 13/SoHo Playhouse; Page 73 Productions), The Dear Boy (Second Stage Theatre), Moving Picture (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Key West (Geva), Am Lit (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Lamarck (Perishable Theatre), as well as the new plays The Three Christs of Ypsilanti and The Body of an American. He has received commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Center Theatre Group, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Sloan/First Light Grant, Geva Theatre Center, and residencies and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Yaddo, and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. His awards include the American Theatre Critics Association’s Osborn Award. In 2002, 2003, and again in 2005, O’Brien was the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at Sewanee.
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