Jon Robin Baitz was born and raised in Los Angeles as well as Rio de Janeiro and Durban, South Africa.
His plays have been extensively produced on and off Broadway and throughout the world. They include The Film Society, Mizlansky / Zilinsky, The Substance of Fire, A Fair Country, Three Hotels, Ten Unknowns, The Paris Letter, I’ll Be Seein’ Ya and Other Desert Cities.
He created the ABC series Brothers & Sisters, which ran for five seasons from 2007 to 2012, and the miniseries The Slap for NBC. Other television credits include episodes of The West Wing, Alias and Showtime’s noir anthology Fallen Angels. Screenplays include The Substance of Fire, People I Know and Stonewall.
He is a Tony Award® nominee for the Broadway production of Other Desert Cities, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist (A Fair Country and Other Desert Cities), a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellow and an American Academy of Arts & Letters Award winner.
