Kevin OBrien

Kevin OBrien

Kevin O’Brien, a retired EMT living in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is an Irish-American with a large family. A frequent writer, it wasn’t until retirement that Kevin became quite prolific. Kevin has written several plays studded with intriguing characters that will certainly entertain audiences everywhere. Many of his characters and plot lines are derived from stories Kevin remembers from his childhood. Growing...
Kevin O’Brien, a retired EMT living in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is an Irish-American with a large family. A frequent writer, it wasn’t until retirement that Kevin became quite prolific. Kevin has written several plays studded with intriguing characters that will certainly entertain audiences everywhere. Many of his characters and plot lines are derived from stories Kevin remembers from his childhood. Growing up in a dysfunctional Irish family, he often tailed after his bookie grandfather or kept company with rowdy drunks--including his alcoholic father--in Irish bars. These folks and others come alive in Wake Me, The Oxford Ordinary, The Rose of Charles Street, Sweetness, and La Drom. Kevin puts his characters in uncomfortable situations that lead to joy and sadness--and everywhere there is a touch of magic. The Irish are known for their silver-tongued storytelling, and Kevin O’Brien is no exception.
Kevin is currently working on adapting two of his plays into screenplays. He is a member of the Writers Guild of Ireland, The Cape Cod Cultural Center, and The Cotuit Center for the Performing Arts. When he is not writing, Kevin enjoys reading about Irish mythology, studying the Irish language at the Sons of Erin social club, and entering ten-minute play competitions. Kevin lives with his wife, Eileen, and Halle, “the hound from hell.”

Plays

  • Sweetness
    A family is bullied by a local gang until two unlikely members take a stand.
  • The Last Hooker
    A hard working fisherman and bartender push back against a greedy Squire who is trying
    to procure their property.
  • Little Deaths (Ten minute version)
    Little Deaths is a ten-mimute play simply set on a park bench in an Irish neighborhood of a large American city. Nora and Mimi are two mature ladies born in Ireland who immigrated to the United States when young girls. On this day, they sit and contemplate the changing culture, political correctness, recent deaths of friends and neighbors, and their own mortality.
  • Little Deaths
    Little Deaths is a ten-mimute play simply set on a park bench in an Irish neighborhood of a large American city. Nora and Mimi are two mature ladies born in Ireland who immigrated to the United States when young girls. On this day, they sit and contemplate the changing culture, political correctness, recent deaths of friends and neighbors, and their own mortality.