O’Keefe joined the rest of the world during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and finally got herself on Zoom to discuss the writing process, last minute deadlines and hair color with Angelica Zadak from ‘This is Improv’ in their weekly segment, Tacobout it Tuesday.
‘AIM’D SO NEAR’ at BORDERLIGHT FRINGE FESTIVAL
Best Intentions premiered at the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival before traveling to London, UK and finally ending up at the Edinburgh fringe festival in the summer of 2016. “We always wanted this production to come home to Cleveland where it was conceived, but we knew when we did it that we wanted to make some changes”…
O’KEEFE JOINS MIDWIVES
In late 2018 O’Keefe joined the Chicago based collective known as the Midwives. The Midwife Circle is a network of peer support, advocacy, and accountability. Each individual in the network commits to serving as both a midwife and an artist for a nine month term. The goal in these relationships is to create space for seeds…
OHIO ARTS COUNCIL 2018 INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE AWARD WINNER – PLAYWRITING
In May 2018 O’Keefe was awarded an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. Individual Excellence Awards are peer recognition of creative artists for the exceptional merit of a body of their work that advances or exemplifies the discipline and the larger artistic community. These awards support artists’ growth and development and recognize their work…
READING OF ‘MAGS’ AT DOBAMA THEATRE
Dobama Theatre’s Playwright’s Gym, O’Keefe will have a reading of a brand new play and first draft look at a work in progress, Mags. In a slightly overstuffed and stale flat in Brixton (London), siblings Hendrick and Claire find themselves currently responsible for caring for their Aunt Maggie’s flat after she gets sectioned for making…
WORLD PREMIER OF ‘ILLUMINATED’
After a successful staged reading in February 2017 of Illuminated (prequel to Darker and O’Keefe’s latest finish play) at Dobama Theatre as part of the Dobama Theatre Playwright’s Gym Reads, director Sarah Greywitt of Ohio City Theatre Project will take on this one act play in the world premier of this darkly comic drama. Starring…
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