Owen O’Neill is a writer, actor of stage and screen, and stand-up comedian. He has written and performed eight 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 Edinburgh Critics Award for best comedy. In 2012 he won best actor for his off-Broadway one-man play
Absolution. He has appeared in five feature films including
Michael Collins directed by Neil Jordan and
The General directed by John Boorman. His short film
The Basket Case, which he wrote and directed won best short at the Boston Film Festival in 2010. In 2009 he, along with Dave Johns, adapted
The Shawshank Redemption for the 2013 Edinburgh Festival and it received five-star reviews from The Times and Scotland on Sunday.
At turns poignant and hilarious O’Neill’s poetry is the most unexpected of performances, but certainly one of the highlights of the festival. – CULTURE NORTHERN IRELAND