“Dorset Theatre Festival, THIRST - “Sublime” - “A Stunningly offered story you should want to go see for the strength of its humanity” ”
TELLY HALKIAS - BRATTLEBORO REFORMER
On his craft
“I believe in stories that resonate beyond the theatre’s door, that add ideas to the national conversation. I believe in the playwright as a thinker travelling in the direction of their fear.”—Ronán Noone
“I believe in playing with a myriad of elements to find the right way to tell a good story; a necessary story that tells us who we are, where we have been, and where we are going.” —Ronán Noone
Teaching
I am an Assistant (adj) Professor of English at Boston University where I teach at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre in the MFA program in Playwriting. I am also on the writing faculty for Writing, Film & Media Arts at Walnut Hill School for the Arts.
As a teacher, I guide student writers to search for the beating heart in their work, to critique with care, to rewrite using the pen as a scalpel, and to read and reread all the plays, screenplays, and TV pilots they can get their hands on.
What’s Going On
Upcoming Productions-
THIRST
FEBRUARY 23RD - MARCH 17TH, 2024
Click to buy: PUBLISHED: Oct, 2023
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THE SMUGGLER
Chicago Premiere
Jackalope Theatre
Feb 16th - Mar 16th, 2024
https://www.jackalopetheatre.org/the-smuggler
THE SMUGGLER
JOBSITE THEATER, TAMPA
May 15th-June 9th, 2024
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PUBLISHED OCT, 2023
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TALKS AND LECTURES
NOVEMBER, 2023
A symposium on the Cuala Press run by the Yeats family. (On display will be prints from the Cuala Press held by the Gotlieb Archives at BU).
https://www.bu.edu/calendar/?day=2023-11-8&uid=287244@17.calendar.bu.edu
OCTOBER, 2023
A Eugene O’Neill Symposium was held on October 6 at Washington University in St. Louis.
THIRST - a Journey into Long Day’s Journey into Night
While Long Day's Journey into Night is going on in the living room - what is happening in the kitchen? Thirst is the play that takes place in the kitchen of Monte Cristo Cottage during that fateful day in August, 1912. By using an upstairs/downstairs perspective, it opens a conversation with Eugene O’Neill’s classic family drama. Ronán Noone (Boston University), author of Thirst, will discuss the process of creating the play while illustrating how the themes of deracination and immigration are considered essential to our understanding of O'Neill's work.
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Previous Productions
THE SMUGGLER
JUNE 2023
January 18th-February 26th, 2023
(extended to March 12th)
Irish Repertory Theatre, New York
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THIRST
August 18-Sept 3, 2022
Dorset Theatre Festival
https://dorsettheatrefestival.org/thirst
The Smuggler
Jan 14 - Feb 27, 2022
Urbanite Theatre, Fl
Assedegats (Thirst)
October, 2022
Teatre Estable de Sabadell, Spain
https://tesbd.cat/
The Smuggler
April 28 - May 22, 2022
Corrib Theatre