John O'Brien graduated from Tufts University in 1951, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. A teacher of English and theatre at Malden High School, Malden, Mass., and a literary fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, O'Brien has two full-length plays and seven one-act plays in the Dramatic Publishing catalog, plus seven scenes and monologues in Scenes and Monologues for Young Actors, also with Dramatic. A lifetime actor on community theatre stages, his favorite role was Willy Loman.
