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Isaac Oliver is an award-winning playwright, author, and performer.

His debut collection of essays, Intimacy Idiot, was named one of NPR's Best Books of 2015, and has been released in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook. He is an artist in residence at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, where he performs evenings of sit- down comedy. Additionally, he's written for The New York Times, Out Magazine, W Magazine, Time Out New York, “High Maintenance” (Writers Guild Award nominee for Best Episodic Comedy Script), “GLOW,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” and the upcoming “Étoile.”

He is a graduate of Carver Center for Arts and Technology and Fordham College at Lincoln Center and a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He lives in New York City.