Dan O'Brien is a playwright, poet, librettist, and essayist. His recognition includes a Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama & Performance Art, the Horton Foote Prize, the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, and two PEN America Awards. A collection of his essays, A Story That Happens: On Playwriting, Childhood, & Other Traumas, was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2021. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the actor and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter Isobel.