Daniel Abrams

Daniel Lawrence Abrams grew up in NYC, attended Trinity School, and then graduated from Stuyvesant High School. He got his BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan. The 3-D input device he invented earned US Patent # 5,652,603. Abrams trained in comedy writing at The Second City and The Groundlings. He used to perform stand-up at The Improv in LA and The Comedy Cellar in NYC. As a playwright, Abrams's stage shows played at The Stella Adler Theatre, The Powerhouse Theater, and the HBO/Warner Brothers TV Workspace. In Hollywood, Abrams wrote, produced, and directed over a hundred hours of TV. He was the Supervising Producer of the 2014 Emmy-Nominated SundanceTV show THE WRITERS' ROOM and was a freelance Director for HGTV's HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL. Abrams co-produced four feature films and the documentary PINK & BLUE: COLORS OF HEREDITARY CANCER. He gave the TEDx Talk titled "Sports Can Save Politics" at AJU. My Debut Novel, "Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry," recently won "Best Science Fiction: Cyberpunk" at the 7th Annual American Fiction Awards (2024). My book was also named a Finalist in the following additional categories: Cross Genre Fiction, Humor/Comedy/Satire, Thriller: Techno, and Visionary Fiction. It also made the long list and is still in contention for Chanticleer's Cygnus Award for Science Fiction.