Dr. Rosary O'Neill

ROSARY O’NEILL, PHD, is a senior Fulbright drama specialist and winner of nine Fulbright awards, including five to study Edgar Degas in Paris. She has published nineteen plays with Concord Publishers (Samuel French Publishers), including Degas in New Orleans and Marilyn/God, and has published six play/screenplay anthologies, three novels and seven books. She co-authored screenplays with Dr Rory Schmitt about Kate Chopin, Edgar Degas and the Baroness of Pontalba in New Orleans, and these are currently being optioned as films.
Her other books include New Orleans Carnival Krewes (for which she was keynote speaker at the International Carnival Conference, University of Cologne) and The Actors Checklist, used as a master text in schools nationwide.
Dr O’Neill is a professor emerita at Loyola University, New Orleans, and a member of the Playwrights Division of the Actors’ Studio in New York City. The founder of Southern Rep Theatre, New Orleans, she has received invitations to and sponsorships from American Embassies in England, France, Georgia, Russia and Hungary. She has been a visiting scholar at Cornell University, University of Cologne, University of Bonn, and the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris. She has received artist residencies at the Norman Mailer Institute, National Arts Club, NYC, the Arthur Seelen Theatre, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, Harvard University, Sorbonne University, the American Center, Paris, and the American Academy in Rome.