Brian Scanlan is a Brooklyn-based playwright and mental health clinician from Chicago.

His works include anypercent (Finalist, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference), Young Men & Recovery (Finalist + Honorable Mention, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), The Bull of Queens (Best Play, Players Theatre Short Play Festival, and performed finalist, Bonita Springs International Short Play Festival), The Insemination Game (Best Play, Manhattan Repertory Theatre), and Oedipus but Better (Best Play, Pittsburgh New Works Festival).

As a mental health clinician, Brian works for Pathway Home, which provides Critical Time Interventions for clients with severe mental health diagnoses following hospitalization. Previously, he has worked as a substance use disorder counselor for adolescents and incarcerated clients. Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate School (Addiction Counseling).

Contact: brian.e.scanlan@gmail.com

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