Playwright
Musical Theatre Writer
Designer
Playwright
Musical Theatre Writer
Designer
Chase O’Neill is an award winning playwright & lyricist based in NYC. He has an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Hartwick College. He also studied at the National Theatre Institute as a playwright at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.
Writing Credits: Romeo & Juliet [A Family Tragedy] (Long Beach High School), Here There Be Dragons (Off-Broadway & Edinburgh Fringe Festival), A Pinch of the Owl (Hartwick), Schooled & Lettered (Ludicrous Displays Theatre Company), The Woods Listen (Human Pincushion Productions), and The Caveman (NYU Reading). He’s currently Playwright in Residence at Hartwick College.
Technical credits: Everyone Gets Eaten by Sharks (Cardboard Alley Players), Proof (Hartwick), Ride the Cyclone (Hartwick), The Monsters You Meet in the Dark (Human Pincushion Productions), Willa: A Folk Rock Campfire Story (ANT Fest), The Drowsy Chaperone (Lee Strasberg), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Stella Adler), and Pericles, Prince of Tyre (Blackfriars Playhouse).
Chase's musicals in progress include: For the Lack of Laura (Commissioned by Brent Rogers Services Inc. Book & Lyrics w/ Kurt Rosenberg), Lapu Lapu: Force of Nature (w/ Sabrina Silverio & Alisdair Lee), The Caveman (w/ Theo Teris).
"The musical itself is fun, witty and shows a lot of potential and I hope to see it return in the future and go on to bigger and better things. If you’re a fellow D&D nerd like myself then you will love this little musical."
(review of Here There Be Dragons)
"Here There Be Dragons: A Musical Quest has a tight sense of humour and a charming heart that makes the 90 minutes fly by and leaves you wanting to spend more time with every member of the ensemble cast."
- Theatre Weekly (review of Here There Be Dragons)
"thoroughly entertaining... great showcase of new writing"
Kimberly Shaw- Stage Whispers 2018 (review of Schooled & Lettered)
“A heightened D&D experience… They’ve created a soundscape for the fantasy world that is super fun and engaging… (alongside) the real world scenes that are deeply personal, heartfelt, and even heartbreaking.”
-Dragon Talk - An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast
"Teris and O’Neill’s approach to the subject is one of pragmatic grit though, and they add a believably personal sheen of relatability to the work"
- Natalie Rine from Broadway DNA