Casey O'Neil

Casey O'Neil is a composer, orchestrator, and writer native to the NYC area. He received a BM in Trombone Performance from the Eastman School of Music and an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. His writing can be found in concert works, films, studio albums, podcasts, song cycles, operas, and musicals, and has been presented at St Luke’s Theatre, TheatreWorks, The Brunno Walter Auditorium, The Buffalo Film Festival, Barrington Stage Company, and Lauren Flanigan's living room. His play Marcus & Patty At The End Of The World was a semi-finalist in the 2021 Screencraft Stageplay competition. Recent credits: Off Broadway: The Great Cat Massacre (Co-writer Greg Moss); Vimeo, AMDA, Syracuse University: The Aviatrix (Lily Dwoskin, Libretto) Hunter College: The Bone Keepers (Sophia Chapedjev, libretto); NYU & Pocono Mountain Musical Festival: Danny & The Rocket (Marella Martin Koch, book & lyrics). Upcoming: Witch Hunt (Ashley Griffin, book & lyrics), Untitled album of hakafah medleys (arranger, orchestrator, transcriptionist). He is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of theatrical development company Back Table ink.

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Recent Commissions: Sorcha's Gift (Kathryn Madden, 2021), SAPPED! Or the Almost True Story of the Great Canadian Maple Heist of 2012. (Syracuse University, 2024)

 

Casey served as an administrator at NYU Tisch’s New Studio on Broadway from 2015 to 2021, and is currently the Academic Operations Manager at Syracuse University’s Tepper Semester.

 

Outside of theatre Casey is a semi-professional woodworker and woodcarver.