Beau O'Reilly
Beau O'Reilly is a Chicago playwright, a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Writing Program, a frequent teacher at the Iowa Summer Writing Program, and a working artist with more than 40 years of experience. Beau’s past work includes stories on “This American Life,” performance events at the Poetry Foundation and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and as front man for the rock n’ roll cabaret band Maestro Subgum and the Whole. Beau is a co-founder of the Curious Theatre Branch, a curator of the Rhinoceros Theater Festival, and a member of the folk-cabaret band The Crooked Mouth. Beau’s play, “One Boppa; Two Acts” appears in the anthology Curious Plays (2022), and a volume of his own work is forthcoming from JackLeg Press.
