Dan O?Brien is an American playwright, poet, and librettist whose work includes the inaugural Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama-winning play The Body of an American, which premiered at Portland Center Stage in 2012 directed by Bill Rauch, and received its European premiere in an extended run at the Gate Theatre in London and Royal & Derngate in Northampton in 2014, directed by James Dacre. The Kennedy Prize is shared with Robert Schenkkan's All the Way. The Body of an American is also winner of the Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play, L. Arnold Weissberger Award, administered by Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the PEN Center USA Award for Drama. O'Brien's debut poetry collection entitled War Reporter was published in 2013 by Hanging Loose Press in Brooklyn and CB Editions in London, edited by Charles Boyle. War Reporter received the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. O'Brien was recently writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. 

January 1st, 1974 in New York (Age 50)