Jeanie O’Hare
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Jeanie O’Hare is a writer, freelance dramaturg and creative producer. She was Director of New Work Development at the Public Theater in NYC, and Chair of Playwriting at Yale School of Drama. She trained at the Royal Court Theatre, and worked as Company Dramaturg for the Royal Shakespeare Company, developing Matilda the Musical. Jeanie collaborates on books for musicals, edits classical texts and writes and develops original plays. In 2018 she rescued Queen Margaret from four Shakespeare plays and created a single drama. Her peers say she is like gravity, invisible yet her influence is everywhere. For thirty years she has identified and nurtured important new writers in the UK and the USA. She gave Dennis Kelly, debbie tucker green, Nina Raine, and Tarell Alvin McCraney their first theatre commissions. Jeremy O Harris (whose Slave Play garnered the most Tony nominations ever for a straight play) numbers amongst her Yale cohort – writers who get produced and win prizes more than any other cohort in Yale’s history. She is a regular judge on major playwriting prize juries. Her particular focus is on getting projects from sketch to yes.
The residency has been devised in partnership with Andrew Panton, Artistic Director of Dundee Rep Theatre, and will include facilitated sessions with Dramaturg Jeanie O’Hare (formerly Director of New Work Development at The Public Theater), Music Supervisor James McKeon (Musical Director: Moulin Rouge! The Musical, London), Donna Lynn Hilton, Artistic Director of Goodspeed Musicals, Connecticut and David Greig, Artistic Director of Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. Shonagh Murray joins as Associate Musical Supervisor, with Imogen Stirling, supported by Playwright Studio Scotland, joining as Associate Dramaturg.
The creatives will also benefit from networking opportunities and workshop sessions, both in-person and digital, with industry-leading writers, composers, producers, directors, and other theatre practitioners – including Tony® Award-winning director John Doyle, Tony® and Grammy® Award-winning producer Mara Isaacs, Tony® Award-winning producer Rashad V. Chambers, and more.
Presented by Cove Park and Dundee Rep Theatre in partnership with Capital Theatres, Citizens Theatre, Macrobert Arts Centre, National Centre for the Performing Arts – Mumbai, National Theatre of Scotland, Octopus Theatricals – New York City, Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, and Traverse Theatre. Associate partners include A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Playwrights’ Studio Scotland, and Tron Theatre.
