Alan Olejniczak is an opera librettist and playwright based in San Francisco. His operas include Atlas of Remote Islands (2023) and Unbound (2021), with music by Nathan Hall; Death of Ivan Ilych (2021), with music by John Young; and End of the Line (2024), a short comic opera by Nathan Wasner. In 2023, Alan premiered his first oratorio, Yosef and the Counseling Angel, with music by Cole Thomason-Redus, and his music-drama Concerto with The Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma in partnership with The Oklahoma City Philharmonic.

​Recently, Synchromy presented a workshop of his opera Midnight to Midnight, with music by Dante de Silva, at Sony Studios in Culver City during the World Opera Forum and the Opera America Conference in Los Angeles. In July 2024, he premiered his short opera On Our Way, with music by Nathan Wasner, with Opera on Tap Colorado. Next April, Atlas of Remote Islands will be remounted at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado, and Cape Town Opera in South Africa. His short opera Petrov with music by Sergey Nesterov will receive a workshop production at The Wende Museum in Culver City, CA, and produced by Synchromy. 

Artist residencies are an important part of Alan's writing practice. Alan was the Artist in Residence for Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park and the first playwright ever selected by the National Parks Arts Foundation. His other artist residencies span the globe, including Micro Galleries in Pātan, Nepal; Nes Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland; Nocefresca in Milis, Sardinia; and the prestigious The Arctic Circle Residency, where he sailed the icy waters around Svalbard for two expeditions. In January 2025, Alan will be in residence at Château d-Orquevaux in France.