Dan O’Brien (playwright)

The Body of an American premiered at Portland Center Stage, directed by Bill Rauch, and received the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy  Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Drama, and the L. Arnold Weissberger Award. In 2014, The Body of an American received a European premiere at the Gate Theatre in London and Royal & Derngate in Northampton, directed by James Dacre, and was shortlisted for an Evening Standard Drama Award. O’Brien’s debut poetry collection War Reporter was published in 2013 in the US and the UK, where it received the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. O'Brien's most recent collection of poetry, New Life, was published in November 2015 by CB Editions in London. O’Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter, Isobel.