Bree O'Connor is a Wonder Woman of the arts. She has seen and done it all, from every angle, and she plans to never stop. A lover of creation and an inquisitive student of life, Bree is always examining the human experience, and trying to find ways to magnify its brilliance and pain. She is an artist but also one of the best champions of other's art; all while wearing many hats, including wife, mother and activist. Want to know what the future of creation could look like for everyone... then listen up, Bree has some things to explain.
Bree O’Connor is a co-founder and Artistic Director of Playful Substance, a New York based theater company focused on the development of conscientious collaborators, new works, and substantive productions approached with a sense of fun. Bree is equally at home onstage, backstage, behind the computer or in the box office. As a playwright, director, and writing coach, Bree has fostered over 30 works from page to stage including her own works, Pull, SAHM’s Club and her solo show, Gee, I Hope You Have Fun…., as well as new plays by Raphael Perahia, Grant Harris and Lauren Lindsey White. Bree’s design work includes conjuring 1880’s New York through costumes for Infinite Variety Production’s award winning immersive project Nellie and the Women of Blackwell, costume, set and prop design for Playful Substance’s productions of Frank, by Grant Harris, Tell Me by Lauren Lindsey White, Still We Grow (A benefit for LifeWay Network) and for Bree’s own SAHM’s Club that won Staff Favorite at FRIGID 2017. Bree’s most recent acting credits include Still, Birth. By Coley Campany and Robyne Parrish, her aforementioned solo show and her comedic monologue The Ballad of Roddy Rod Johnson. For more information on Bree’s work and Playful Substance, visit playfulsubstance.com.
Art has never been more important than it is right now, and not just the Goliath of the artistic money machine, but all creation. Yes everyone loves the bright lights of Broadway and the marquees of the Cinema, but there is a world of artists out there who deserve notice as well. Their stories are our stories and Bree is one of the best conduits to find them. So take a few minutes with us this week and be... "Breevigorated."