Welcome to the Work of Dr. Rosary Hartel O'Neill

Rosary Hartel O'Neill is an author, playwright, director, teacher and mother.

Rosary is the author of fourteen plays, produced internationally by invitation of the American embassy in Paris, Bonn, Tibilisi, Georgia, Budapest, Hungary, London and Moscow. Her play Uncle Victor was chosen Best New American Drama by the Cort Theater, Hollywood, and celebrated in the Chekhove Now Festival in New York. Blackjack was selected for Alice's Fourth Floor Best New Play Series. She was founding artistic director at Southern Rep Theater from 1987 to 2002. she has been playwright-in-residence at the Sorbonne University, Paris; Tulane University, New Orleans; Defiance College, Ohio, the University of Bonn, Germany and Visiting Scholar at Cornell. And she is the mother of four fabulous children: Barrett, Dale, Rachelle and Rory.

Recent professional achievements include: Degas in New Orleans, which was invited to the New End Theatre (a heralded theater for contemporary plays) in London and featured in the Best New American Play Oktoberfest of the Ensemble Studio Theatre (a leading theater for new work) in New York City and in the Reading Series of the Abingdon Theatre and the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, New York.

LATEST NEWS: Samuel French publishes two anthologies by Rosary Hartel O'Neill

CLICK HERE TO BUY: A Louisiana Gentleman and other New Orleans Comedies: Vol 1

CLICK HERE TO BUY: Ghosts of New Orleans: Plays by Rosary Hartel O'Neill Volume 2