A Theatre Artist
Served with a Spring of Satire and a Twist of Tragedy

Rani O’Brien excavates the truth of the human condition through irreverent play, cares deeply about the journey of artists, and seeks to create plosive, rupturing theatrical works. 

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Rani has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Second City, The Lark, Pacific Symphony, McCarter Theatre Center, The Vagrancy, Howl! Happening, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Boston University, Theatre Aspen, The Tank, amongst others.

 

LORT: Twelfth Night, Associate Director, Kansas City Rep; Skylight, SDCF Observer, McCarter Theatre. Select NYC Directing: Modern Chalk Circle, A Midsummer Night’s DreamMachine, Disconnected Touch, and more in development. Select Directing: Robert O'Hara's Mankind, Isabelle Sanatdar Stevens' Mahsa's Last Song, The Theory of Relativity, Three Sisters, Hamlet, Constellations, Candidate Confessions: A 2016 Cabaret, Break In, Scifiology the Musical, Oh, The Magical Musical Places You'll Go!, The Big Funk, Les Misérables, etc. Other Writing/Directing in development: Hedda, The Able Body Myth, RJ, Ibsentia, & more.

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 SDC Associate. The Second City Directing program graduate. MFA Boston University. 

C.V., Artistic Leadership, and directing resumes available upon request.