A Story that Happens : On playwriting, childhood, & other traumas

A Story that Happens : On playwriting, childhood, & other traumas

A Story that Happens : On playwriting, childhood, & other traumas

A Story that Happens : On playwriting, childhood, & other traumas

A Story that Happens : On playwriting, childhood, & other traumas

Overview

Drawing on O’Brien’s experience of cancer and of childhood abuse, and on his ongoing collaboration with a war reporter, the four essays in A Story that Happens – first written as craft lectures for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the US Air Force Academy – offer hard-won insights into what stories are for and the reasons why, ‘afraid and hopeful’, we begin to tell them.

Authors

Dan O'Brien

Dan O’Brien is a playwright, poet, memoirist, essayist and librettist. His play Newtown, winner of the Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation Theatre Visions Fund Award, premiered at Geva Theatre in 2024, directed by Elizabeth Williamson. The Body of an American, O’Brien’s play ...

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