Darren Callahan

Early life Callahan is from Dayton, Ohio.

Career Film and stage Callahan wrote several radio dramas in the 1990s and early 2000s, including Uncle Ant (1997), The Wave (1998), The Death Guard (2000), The Carnival of Spies (2001), and The Tokyo Tourist Bureau (2005). He was awarded the NPR Best Audio Drama Award. In the 2010s, Callahan wrote, directed, and scored several of Glass City Films' productions, including Under the Table, Children of the Invisible Man, Don't Call Me Loretta, Death & Devils, and the film version of Desperate Dolls. He produced Emily Bennett's Chat Room (2015) and scored for the films Cry It Out, American Barbarian, LVRS, Safe Haven, and All the Flowers That Cut Through the Earth. Reviews were mixed, with some praising Callahan's use of suspense and the choreography of the murder scenes, while others criticized it for romanticizing violence against women Among Callahan's many other feature-length screenplays are Kiss Me With Blood, Nerves, Red Park Road, and Summer of Ghosts, all of which have been published by Hooper Cinema Classics. Some of his stage plays include Horror Academy, Mass Grave, Sub-Genre, The Double Negative, and The White Airplane. of 24 of Callahan's sexploitation screenplays, including Documentia, The Battle For Carlyle, and Salamander Lake. Filmstrips, a selected compilation of his film scores, entitled Low-Budget Horror. Hooper Cinema Classics also released The Fifth Terror (2021), a collection of five of Callahan's feature-length horror screenplays. Another edition featuring a sixth story was released shortly after.

All These Devils (2017) and Terror/13 (2018) have been a finalist and semi-finalist, respectively, in Shriekfest's script competitions. and In Control (2019) and Demon Wasp (2022) were quarterfinalists. In 2019, In Control was a top 10 finalist in the PAGE Awards' science fiction category and All These Devils was a semifinalist in the Austin Film Festival's Drama Feature Screenplay category.

Music groups Callahan's first band, The Life and Times, got a recording contract when he was 16. They opened for acts including The Smithereens and 10,000 Maniacs. His pop group, OO OO WA, signed to Limited Potential Records and put out two LPs and two EPs in the mid-1990s. They released a four-disc boxset in commemoration of their first album, Screen Kiss, in 2003 released a 100-song boxset with Brazildisc in 2018 and re-released the EP Whiteout!!! Brazildisc also re-released The Globe Hotel by Teenage Blackout. In 2021, he released When a Pill Becomes a Law, a 13-song solo record, and a four-volume singles collection of his songs from the late 1990s.

Novels The Audrey Green Chronicles trilogy, City of Human Remains, and The Vanishing of Archie Gray were all published by Brazilbook, then later reissued by Hudson & Hader NYC. Trouble Press published a collection called Twin Cinema, made up of 31 of his fiction and non-fiction pieces. The Vanishing of Archie Gray was named Critics Choice by the Chicago Reader. 6 the Rise (2000) and City of Human Remains (2008) were re-published by Hudson & Hader in 2020 with new art, text, and design. Callahan's early novels include Unsettled and Deep Freeze. Callahan's first book, Hours Until We Sleep, was self-published.

Personal life Callahan lives with his wife, son, and daughter in Los Angeles. His wife hosts the popular podcast The Things We Know on Apple.