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Owen O'Neill

OWEN O'NEILL  

 Nationality:    Irish
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  represented by Charlotte Knight


Owen is a writer Stand-up comedian and actor. Owen has written and performed seven one-man plays and has won a string of awards including three Fringe Firsts at the Edinburgh Festival. The Herald Angel award for best play and the LWT writers award for best comedy. He has toured his stand-up and one -man plays in Ireland, America, Canada and Australia to critical acclaim performing at the West Beth theatre, New York, Andrews Lane theatre Dublin. The Hudson back-stage theatre, Los Angeles. The Harbour front theatre, Toronto, the Wellington Opera House and the Town Hall theatre Melbourne. He has written and starred in three other plays, Dead Meat, Travelling Light and Patrick's Day with his former writing partner Sean Hughes, winning a Fringe first and the Edinburgh Festival critic's award for best comedy. In 09 he adapted the Shawshank Redemption for the stage which ran at the Gaiety theatre in Dublin and The Wyndams theatre in London's West End. 'A very funny human being just go and see him'. The Glasgow Herald. 'To describe what O'Neill does as Stand-up does not do him justice. This man is not only funny he's a modern day soothsayer' The New York Post His debut feature film ARISE AND GO NOW a dark comedy about priests, pigeons and the IRA was adapted from his short story WB YEATS AND ME and was directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting.) (Slumdog millionaire) It was screened as part of the BBC Film on 2 series. 'O'Neill has scored a fine debut. His writing is reminiscent of the plays of Sean O'Casey and the films of John Ford.' Sheridan Morley. The Times. His short film Shooting to Stardom, which was adapted from his short story The Night Bus and directed by Kieron J Walsh won the best Irish short at the Cork film festival in 1999. In 2006 five of his seven one-man plays were adapted by him and aired on BBC Radio Four's 'Late night theatre' slot. He has written and directed The Basket Case which was adapted from his short story of the same name published in 2004 by Random House. It won Best Short Film at the 2008 Boston Film Festival. Owen also co-produced and had the original idea of staging the classic American play Twelve Angry Men using twelve stand-up comedians. The play received rave reviews and holds the record for the fastest sell out in the history of the Edinburgh Festival it went on to tour Australia and New Zealand and due to its success was followed the next year by One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest starring Christian Slater. This later transferred to the West End and ran for six months. His book of Poetry Volcano Dancing was published in 2006. 'He has the turn of phrase of Roddy Doyle and the darkness of Patrick McCabe.' The Independent. 'O'Neill is never anything less than an excellent intelligent writer.' The Stage. In Sep 2010 Owen won best actor for his off Broadway performance as 'Nathan' in his latest one-man play ABSOLUTION. The play also won best director for Rachel O'Riordan.

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 Absolution         Finding Mick Jagger         It Was Henry Fonda's Fault         My Son The Footballer!         No Place Like Home         Off My Face         Owen O'Neill is a ***t and so is Seamus Heaney         Shawshank Redemption, The         Shouting From The Scaffold         Struck By Lightning

Absolution

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Petey has brutally murdered five Catholic priests, castrating and beheading some. Find out why and ask yourselves . . . was he right? Dark, dank, dangerously funny.

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Guy Masterson-TTI in Association With OON Productions UK

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black comedy One Act

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Finding Mick Jagger

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Finding Mick Jagger is a fast paced sometimes surreal comic look at how our behaviour is socially conditioned by how old we are. Our hero still wants to be Mick Jagger. His wife has had enough. She gives him an ultimatum. 'It's Mick or me.' In a desperate bid to save his marriage he sets out to find Mick jagger and talk some sense into him. . . will he find him? And if he does, will Mick listen?

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Short Play One Act

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It Was Henry Fonda's Fault

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explores the effect that his hit show Off My Face has had, not only on his life but also on those who saw and appreciated it.
Steve Jelbert, Independent

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My Son The Footballer!

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a son is born - a footballer - who might just sign for a Premiership Club - if his Dad doesn't get in the way.

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Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh    2002

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No Place Like Home

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Off My Face

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meditation on our, and his, ambivalent relationship with alcohol

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Owen O'Neill is a ***t and so is Seamus Heaney

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An evening of raucous humour, readings, writings and stories. Some truth, lots of lies, and a short film acted out without the aid of a screen or cameras.

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Shawshank Redemption, The

Synopsis:
The story of the inner strength and courage of a prisoner in the notorious Shawshank Prison

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adapted from novel by Stephen King by Owen O'Neill And Dave Johns

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Wyndham's, London    13 Sep 2009

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Shouting From The Scaffold

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Struck By Lightning

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Owen was stealing apples from the orchard when he was struck by lightning. He was flung from the tree and escaped with minor burns. The apples down his wellingtons were stewed and his school uniform destroyed. His friend Kelvin Devlin, who was keeping 'dick', became so hysterical with laughter he was unable to help. Owen glowed in the dark for six weeks afterwards, developed a stammer and a firm belief that he was indestructible

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Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival Fringe    04 Aug 2012

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Genre:
comedy 60 min

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