ABOUT THE ARTIST
showing up an hour early with a large coffee, spunky ideas, and bad jokes since 1998
Megan Reilly O’Neill is an NYC based actor, singer, writer, and human. She moved to Manhattan in 2017 to pursue a double BFA major in Musical Theater and Acting at Marymount Manhattan College.
She fell in love with language and storytelling at age 3. She was considered an English/Literature prodigy in her youth and wrote her first short story in preschool. It was about a polar bear named Kelly who visited a zoo.
She’s been performing since age 5, when she made her solo debut singing The First Noel in her kindergarten talent show. She wanted to sing “American Pie”, but it’s eight minutes long .
She made her off-Broadway debut at The Tank in 2019 in a play about chocolate eclairs. She was featured as part of LadyFest, an original works festival celebrating upcoming female and nonbinary artists.
She has a special interest in Laban, Lucid Body, and Holistic Acting methodology. She has trained with renowned coaches such as Barbara Adrian, Antonio Edwards Suarez, and Fay Simpson. She hopes to one day become certified in Laban Movement Studies.
She’s passionate about developmental theater and creating new work. She has focused her early career on prioritizing her involvement in original work. She has originated several roles in workshops, readings, and staged productions.
She’s a history nerd, and loves flexing this muscle in period pieces. Her favorite to date included working with Prix du Premier award-winning author Gwen Edelman and Drama Desk Award directing nominee David Schweizer on Edelman’s stage adaptation of her 2014 novel “Train to Warsaw”.
When she’s not onstage you can find her practicing yoga, kickboxing, reading Russian literature, watching true crime documentaries, or writing. She’s read “War and Peace” 9 times and is working towards her yoga teaching certification.
Performing is her first passion, writing is her second. Her favorite way to pass time in between bookings is writing poetry of varying quality in coffee shops and updating her journal with the weirdest conversation tidbits she overhears. She is in the process of writing her first novel.
Growing up her family had goats that they would train and then enter in goat races. It’s a thing. I promise.
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