Owen O’Neill is an award winning writer, actor and director. Theatre writing includes: Sixteen one-man stage shows. Two stage plays. Shaving the Dead and Absolution and an adaptation of the Shawshank Redemption which did a number 1 tour of the UK produced by Bill Kenwright and has been sold to Broadway Licensing for production across North America and Canada.
His short film Basketcase written and directed by O’Neill, won best short at the Irish Boston Film Festival. A fine study of love and death in small town Ireland. A beautiful and memorable film. Boston Globe
Shaving the Dead is a super short witty version of Waiting for Godot. A pitch perfect hilarious study of two middle-aged men on the edge of eternity. The Scotsman. *****
Absolution is an intelligent highly literate script and a blatant challenge to the audience, bravo. New York Theatre guide. *****
