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Locality: Local to Seattle
Main Industry: Executive & Admin, Performance, Production
Job Title: Artistic Director
Unions: EMC

Rebecca O'Neil

Age Range: 56-65
Gender: Female
Pronouns: She/Her
LGBTQIA2: Do Not Identify with
Race/Ethnicity: White
Hair: Grey
Eyes: Blue
Height Range: 5'7"- 5'9"
Weight Range: Prefer Not to Answer
Biography
Rebecca O’Neil is a Seattle-based actor, director and producer with a profound interest in using the theatre to tell stories about all kinds of people at all the intersections in their lives. A 2019 graduate of the MFA Arts Leadership program at Seattle University, she applied her classroom work to the development of The Shattered Glass Project. Rebecca served as president of the Theater Puget Sound board of directors for 2023-2024 and previously served as treasurer. She has an MFA in Acting (University of Portland); an MA in Teaching (Willamette University), and a BA in Dramatic Arts (Mills College). She has three children who are all out of the house, a tolerant spouse, an acquired taste for IPAs, and a deep belief in the Oxford comma. Extra points for anyone who actually gets to the end of this biography!
Professions & Skills
Spoken Languages: English
Main Profession: Artistic Director
Side Profession: Actor, Director, Educator
Performance Artist
Vocal Range: Alto
Performance Type: Acting
Executive & Admin
Skills: Artistic Direction, Budgeting, Development, Event Management, Fundraising, Literary, Marketing, Patron Services, Producing, Production Management, Programming, Recruiting, Training, Volunteer Management
Specialty Expertise
Expertise: Ancient History, Domestic Violence, Gender Equity, Modern History, Post-classical History, Shakespeare, Women's Issues
Competencies
Skils: Canva, Excel, Word, Zoom

Upcoming Projects

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Through the Window (& Into the Cabin)
August 23, 2024

A friendraiser for The Shattered Glass Project, featuring our studio at the MLK FAME Center and two wacky new scripts about family and the end of the world. I'm playing big sister Moose!

A Lonely Realization by Emily Stone and Darby Sherwood
October 18, 2024

I'm directing this beautiful play about two actors and a pair of disembodied legs, trying to find justice in a nonsensical world. Runs at Theatre4 (TPS black box theatre on the 4th floor of the Armory Building) October 18-27, 2024.