Dan O'Keefe (writer) explained

Dan O'Keefe
Alma Mater:	Harvard University
Nationality:	American
Father:	Daniel O'Keefe
Mother:	Deborah O'Keefe

Dan O'Keefe (born)^[1] 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.

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.^[2]

O'Keefe graduated from Harvard College in 1990.^[3] He currently resides in Los Angeles.^[2]

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]

Bibliography

• The Real Festivus (2005)

External links

• • Excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Real Festivus in USA Today

Notes and References

1. News: Marsh . Steven P. . 2017-12-21 . For the Rest of Us: 20 Years of Festivus . . 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....
2. Web site: DANIEL L. O'KEEFE's Obituary on New York Times. New York Times.
3. Web site: Harvardwood Salon with Dan O'Keefe AB '90.
4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/12/16/DI2009121603245.html "Festivus 2009: Holiday creator Dan O'Keefe takes your questions"
5. O'Keefe, Dan. The Real Festivus. Perigee, 2005.