Field-Of-Study: Drama and Performance Art

Mark O’Donnell is a playwright, novelist, poet, cartoonist, translator, and sometime songwriter. He co-authored the Broadway musicals Hairspray (Tony award) and Crybaby, and his off-Broadway plays, mostly at Playwrights Horizons, include Fables for Friends, That’s it, Folks!, The Nice and the Nasty, Strangers on Earth, Tots in Tinseltown, and Vertigo Park. Knopf has published four

My first jobs were in broadcasting, first at NBC as a writer/reporter, then a historic summer in Moscow for NBC News, then to Australia as a writer/ producer/director of documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Once back in New York, I joined CBS News as a documentary producer. During my time at CBS, I researched,