Charlie O’Leary is a playwright and librettist. His plays and musicals have been developed and presented by the 24 Hour Plays, Alliance Theatre, the BMI Workshop, the Brooklyn Generator, CAP21, Crashbox Theatre Company, Dartmouth College, Dixon Place, the Flea Theater, the Fornés Playwriting Workshop, the Fresh Fruit Festival, Jersey City Theater Center, Middle Voice at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the PIT, Pipeline Theatre Company, Project Y Theatre, the Road Theatre Company, the Samuel French OOB Festival, the Tank, and the University of Notre Dame, among others. His short works have been published by Methuen Drama, Smith & Kraus, and Theatre Now New York, with licensing by Music Theatre International. He has been a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and the Woodward/Newman Drama Award, as well as the recipient of a New York Innovative Theatre Award and an Iowa Arts Fellowship. MFA: Iowa Playwrights Workshop.