Bio

Michele O'Brien is a director and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Directing includes: Jessie & Jared Field’s La Maupin (The Tank, Summer Fresh Festival), Queens Theatre’s Park Plays (Afternoon Prayers by Jenny Lyn Bader), Stepping Through Blood by MJ Perrin (New Perspectives Theater), Chasers by Ashley Lara (Emerging Artists Theater’s New Works Series), NY Madness (new plays by Joshua Young, Jessica Moss, Matthew Barbot, Raine Grayson, and Aleesha Nash), LOVE DRUNK (new plays by Elena V. Levenson and Niki Hatzidis), 24 Hour Plays: Nationals (Delayed by Piper Werle), and developmental readings of Niki Hatsidis & Anastasia Rutkowski’s Steel Birds and CommonWealth. Michele is a comedy writer who has written for the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre’s sketch teams Grown Ass Women and Glamour College.