Dan Caffrey graduated from UT Austin’s M.F.A. Playwriting program in 2020. He has been both a Finalist and Semi-Finalist at the O’Neill (for his plays Matawan, The Tusk Hunters, and The Amphibians), an M.F.A. Scholar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a Resident Artist at Tofte Lake Center, and his work has been published by Smith & Kraus. His plays have recently been developed by Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas and Pegasus PlayLab at UCF, and he’ll be teaching playwriting to the Teen Ensemble at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta this spring. Before attending UT, he was active in the Chicago theatre scene for over a decade, founding Tympanic Theatre and working with a variety of companies around the city as a writer, director, and performer, including The Ruckus, Chicago Dramatists, the side project, WildClaw, Victory Gardens, The Paper Machete, Genesis Ensemble, and Hot Kitchen Collective. Recent productions include his Lord of the Flies sequel Sow and Suckling, which was produced by UT Austin in spring of 2020, directed by Liz Fisher. Dan has also written for a variety of pop-culture sites, including Consequence of Sound, The A.V. Club, Pitchfork, and Vox. He co-hosts The Losers’ Club: A Stephen King Podcast and Halloweenies: A Horror Franchise Podcast, in addition to recording music with Mae Shults under the name Methodist Hospital. Their debut LP, Giants, was hailed by “Dean of American Rock Critics” Robert Christgau as one of the best albums of 2018. His first nonfiction book, Radiohead FAQ, will be published by Rowman & Littlefield in February 2021.