RED HAND WRITING: THE SITE FOR MICHAEL O'NEILL
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Current and Recent
Projects

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The Importance of Being Earnest

  • Director and Dialect Coach
  • Performed April 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, and 28, 2018 in the Weiss Theater at Lafayette College
  • For more about The Importance of Being Earnest, including production concept, collaboration with the design team, directorial approach, casting, photographs, and excerpts from the Director's Notes published in the production program, click the link under the image to your right
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To view The Importance of Being Earnest slideshow,
Click Here: the_importance_of_being_earnest.pdf


Ten-Minute Play Contest and Festival

  • Organizer, Supervisor, Producer
  • Nationwide participation with over 80 submissions
  • The Theater Department of Lafayette College presented the world premiers of the five winning entries in the Studio Theater on May 4 and 5, 2018
  • For more on the first ever Ten-Minute Play Festival at Lafayette College, click here:
  • www.theater.lafayette.edu/ten-minute-play-contest/

Lost Again: A Novel in Stories

  • Author
  • Set between post-Woodstock 1969 and the eve of the American Bicentennial in December 1975, Lost Again is coming-of-age fiction about the interconnected lives of fervent college kids whose idealism splinters into confusion and disillusionment when they encounter the revolutionary promise of the 1960s in its quick decline.
  • Coming soon in eBook and POD formats on Amazon.com
  • For a preview, historical timeline, and playlist of Lost Again, click on LOST AGAIN in the main menu.

Stages of Irish Identity

  • Author
  • This book-length critical study examines and evaluates
          the theatrical construct of Irish identity through a
          consideration of productions, playwrights, and performers
          that have provided templates for American, Irish, and British
          society to (mis)understand Irish ethnicity.
  • Goal for completion: January 2019
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Posing with a portrait of Brian Friel at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2016.

Have A Seat

  • Founder, Supervisor, Principal Contact
  • This campaign offers donors the opportunity to name a seat in the new Weiss Theater, which is the Theater Department’s principal performance space.
  • Any funds raised through this endeavor will create and sustain an endowment fund for the Weiss Theater that will be managed solely by Lafayette’s Theater Department.
  • To read more about the Have-A-Seat initiative and how you can contribute, visit Lafayette Theater Department’s website: theater.lafayette.edu/have-a-seat/

A Tree for Easton

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  • Playwright
  • Research underway to develop a play centered on the
          controversy that arose when Easton, PA officially claimed
          to be the site of the first Christmas tree in America.
  • World premier production scheduled for November 2019 in Easton, PA


An All Green Theater

  • Explorer and Researcher
  • After being involved in the planning and building of Buck Hall and the Weiss Theater at Lafayette College, I continue to investigate funding sources that will support an initiative to make the theater facilities and theater production adhere to sustainability and environmentally sound practices.
  • The goal is also a challenge: Create the very first all-green theater facility and operation on the planet.
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