Rosary O’Neill is author of several books, including The Actor’s Checklist and The Director as Artist, and 21 plays, including The Awakening of Kate Chopin, Beckett at Greystones Bay, Blackjack: The Thief of Possession, and Degas in New Orleans. Her plays have been produced worldwide and Uncle Victor won a signing at the Consulate General Germany in New York in 2011.
O’Neill is a Senior Fulbright Drama Specialist for the American Embassy, a five year appointment, and a Fellow of the Actors Studio Workshop and Linsey Abrams Advanced Writing workshop. Other recent playwriting fellowships include the Norman Mailer House, Cape Cod; the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland; the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Sweet Briar Fellow); and the Sanskriti Foundation Residency Programme near New Delhi, India. O’Neill also was a Fulbright fellow to Germany and Paris.
Rosary O’Neill is professor emeritus at Loyola University, New Orleans, where she taught drama and speech for 18 years. During that time she also formed the Southern Repertory Theatre and served as its artistic director for 15 years.