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.
“Yay, free money and a life of leisure! Except… only if you never have children. Sure, a cute little version of you (but not yet so screwed up) sounds fun. But with AI robots taking more jobs, who can reject that “bargain” hoping to afford kids someday?Stu Reigns does. He’s an idealistic AI programmer and part-time influencer. His demisexual ex-girlfriend, Roxy Zhang, nears perfecting electronic immortality. Add in billionaire banking rascals, and there’s no more certainty — not even “Death & Taxes.”An old-money Southerner is buying Roxy’s company. This infuriates a sick, rival oligarch — who is about to be rightfully convicted of epic fraud. To escape to this digital eternal life, he compels Stu to steal it.You’ll never guess all the twists, but maybe the reader peering over your shoulder will.”IMMORTALITY BYTES: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry by Daniel Lawrence Abrams"LIVING FOREVER... IT'S ALMOST WORTH DYING FOR"Winner of the 7th Annual American Fiction Awards (2024) for “Best Science Fiction: Cyberpunk” and finalist in four additional categories — Humor/Comedy/Satire, Thriller: Techno, Cross Genre Fiction, and Visionary Fiction.The Hook: Strives to be a progressive counterbalance to Ayn Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED.