DARA O'BRIEN

DARA O’BRIEN is a playwright and actress based in New York City. Her plays have been presented or developed at The Cherry Lane Theatre, Urban Stages, the Abingdon Theatre Company, Resonance Ensemble, and HB Studio. She received the Thomas Barbour Playwrights Award for her play “Early Sunday Morning,” which was also a finalist for Capital Stage’s Playwrights Revolution and featured in the Naked Angels Tuesdays@9 Reading Series; it had staged readings at Gloucester Stage Company directed by Paula Plum, and The Schoolhouse Theatre featuring Melissa Errico. Dara is also an actress whose work includes the New York premiere of Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams, directed by Austin Pendleton at 59E59 Theatres; and Lady Capulet in R&J for Web Series Shakespeare. In addition to the 9th Floor, her affiliations include Playwrights Gallery, Member, AEA, SAG-AFTRA, Dramatists Guild of America. www.daraobrien.com