Dan O'Keefe (writer)

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Dan O'Keefe
Born1967or1968(age 56–57)
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Harvard University
Occupations
  • Television writer
  • producer
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Daniel O'Keefe [1] (born 1967or1968) [2] is an American television writer and producer, who has worked on such shows as Seinfeld , The Drew Carey Show , The League , Silicon Valley , and Veep .

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Early and personal life

O'Keefe was born to writers Deborah and Daniel O'Keefe, who was best known as the creator of the holiday Festivus. O'Keefe has two brothers: composer Laurence O'Keefe and screenwriter Mark O'Keefe. [1]

O'Keefe graduated from Harvard College in 1990. [3] He currently resides in Los Angeles. [1]

Career

As a television writer, O'Keefe was responsible for popularizing the holiday Festivus on the 1997 Seinfeld episode "The Strike". [4] Festivus had been invented in the 1960s by O'Keefe's father, editor and author Daniel O'Keefe (1928–2012).

In 2005, Dan O'Keefe published a book about the holiday and its history, titled The Real Festivus. [5]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "DANIEL L. O'KEEFE's Obituary on New York Times". New York Times.
  2. ↑ Marsh, Steven P. (December 21, 2017). "For the Rest of Us: 20 Years of Festivus". The Courier-Post . p. 1D. 'I was tired of Festivus from the time I was first made to celebrate it in the mid-1970s. I haven't gotten any more or less tired of it,' O'Keefe, 49, told The Journal News...
  3. ↑ "Harvardwood Salon with Dan O'Keefe AB '90".
  4. ↑ "Festivus 2009: Holiday creator Dan O'Keefe takes your questions". The Washington Post . December 21, 2009.
  5. ↑ O'Keefe, Dan. The Real Festivus. Perigee, 2005.

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