Dominic Orlando, Writer on ‘Mindhunter,’ ‘The OA’ and ‘Them,’ Dies at 57 - Hollywood Reporter

He started out in the theater in New York and Minneapolis before coming to L.A.

Born in Brooklyn on Christmas Day in 1963, Orlando co-founded the New York-based No Pants Theater Company, whose mission was to return theater “to its original role as a place where society confronts its spiritual self,” in 1992.

While on Jerome and McKnight fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, he helped launch another theater company, the Workhaus Collective, before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in television.

A two-time WGA nominee, Orlando contributed to 10 episodes of the Netflix thriller The OA during its two seasons in 2016 and 2019; wrote an episode of David Fincher’s Mindhunter at Netflix in 2017; produced six installments in 2018 of Syfy’s Nightflyers, based on the work of George R.R.