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OUT NOW - 40 Questions About a Political Play

Dan O’Brien's new essay begins with an apparently simple question: does anybody truly want to see a political play? This provocation is then developed, unpicked, reorganised, and the initial starting point takes us jaggedly into a masterful investigation of what it means to create.

O’Brien is a playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer whose recognition for playwriting includes a Guggenheim Fellowship, two PEN America Awards, and for poetry the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. He has taught playwriting at Princeton University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and elsewhere. Originally from New York, O’Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.

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