John O'Keefe is a noted playwright and performer, was a founding member of the Blake Street Hawkeyes, one of the Bay Area's most important theater groups. Among his plays are Chamber Piece, Jimmy Beam, Ghosts, All Night Long (collected in Sun & Moon's From the Other Side of the Century dramam anthology) and Bercilak's Dream. The Deatherians was first performed at Dallas's noted Undermain Theatre.