Brian Otaño ’11
Brian Otaño is a playwright and screenwriter.
Otaño was the 2024 recipient of the IAMA Theatre Company’s Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission, sponsored by award-winning writer and producer Shonda Rhimes.
Otaño’s full-length plays include:
- Dolores Slayborne: A Grand Guignol Drag Fantasia (Atlantic Theater Company Launch Commission)
- Under Normal Circumstances (UCSB)
- The Dust (2019 MCC Theater PlayLab)
- Tara, Zero Feet Away (Roundabout Underground Series)
- The Dooley Street Trilogy.
In television, Otaño developed numerous projects and served as writer-producer for The Horror of Dolores Roach while under a two-year overall deal with Amazon Studios.
Other TV credits include Goosebumps: Gravesend (Disney+, upcoming) and the first season of Cruel Summer (Hulu).
Otaño is a two-time alumnus of National Hispanic Media Coalition Writers Program, as well as Echo Paywrights Lab, CTG LA Writers Workshop, Geffen Playhouse Writers Room, Ars Nova Playgroup and Page 73’s Interstate 73 Writers Group.
He is the recipient of the New Dramatists Van Lier Fellowship and the New York Theater Workshop 2050 Fellowship.
Born in Brooklyn, he currently lives in LA, where he is an IAMA Theatre Company member playwright and a participant in the Rogue Machine Playwrights Roundtable.
Otaño is represented by William Morris Endeavor, Grandview Management and Jackoway Austen et al.
“…for people coming up—figure out what your story is, your fingerprint, and what’s the best container for getting that into the world. … Find that story that you and only you were put on this planet to write.”
Read more from a recent Q+A on stageraw.com