Charlie O’Neill is a director of Public Communications Centre where he is Creative Director of Media and Strategy. He has worked on communications strategies, media plans, radio and TV advertising for a host of Ireland’s leading charities, NGOs, community and voluntary groups. Charlie has also served on the boards of many arts and culture organisations such as Barabbas and Calypso and he currently chairs Ireland’s leading contemporary dance company – CoisCéim Dance Theatre.

 

In his career as a writer, Charlie has written three plays which all earned professional productions. ‘Rosie and Starwars’ (Stewart Parker Playwrights Award) for Calypso, and ‘Hupnouse’ and ‘Hurl’ for Barabbas (Galway Arts Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival). Some years ago, with Donal O’Kelly, he co-wrote and co-performed ‘Mulletman and Gullier’  (Dublin Theatre Festival). He was also invited to submit a chapter for the book Yeats is Dead, a serial novel by fifteen of Ireland’s best writers, which is now translated into 9 languages. He is co-author with David Bolger of ‘Dodgems’ which is a co-production with Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.

 

Charlie has just completed writing a major publication for the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) entitled ‘Mapping’, which chronicles a unique, long-term, art programme for children. He is currently writing a new play entitled ‘The Valentine’s Day Massacre’ for a cast of teenagers to be staged in November of this year.