Jon Robin Baitz

Jon Robin Baitz’s plays include Other Desert Cities (Pulitzer Prize Finalist 2012, Tony Nominee, Drama League Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, The End of the Day, Three Hotels, A Fair Country (Pulitzer Prize finalist 1996), Mizlansky/Zilinsky, Ten Unknowns, and The Paris Letter, as well as a version of Hedda Gabler (Broadway, 2001). He created Brothers & Sisters, the TV series which ran for five seasons. Other TV work includes PBS’s version of Three Hotels, for which he won the Humanitas Award, and episodes of West Wing and Alias. He is the author of two screenplays; the film script for The Substance of Fire (1996), and People I Know (2002). He is a founding member of Naked Angels Theatre Company, and on the faculties of the MFA program at The New School for Drama, where he is Artistic Director of the BFA division and visiting professor at USC’s Master of Professional Writing program.