Prosiectau / Projects
Jan 2024 – July 2024
Allen Raine: the Opera?
Research and Development Project in Aberporth exploring collaborative processes for creating a site specific opera performance based on the work of Tresaith based Victorian novelist Allen Raine. Funded through the ACW Create scheme with additional support from the Allen Raine Celebration Society.
July 2022 – July 2023
Pererin Wyf / Is Oilithreach Mé / I am a Pilgrim
A participatory arts project seeking to connect with the Welsh and Irish diaspora through story and song. A collaboration with Span Arts funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Co-operation Programme.
April – Nov 2021
Cân y Ffordd Euraidd / The Song of the Golden Road
A community produced radio ballad working with Span Arts and PLANED in response to the National Lottery Heritage Funded Project Ein Cymdogaeth Werin Preseli Heartlands
Jan – April 2021
Where the Waves Meet the Sure
Mentored research and development project with Addo Creative Agency
May – Aug 2020
Dan Y Wenallt Dan Glo
Producer and Director for Span Arts Theatr Soffa project parallel productions of Under Milk Wood In Welsh and English performed during lock down with two community casts through video conferencing software.
July 2019 – Feb 2020
Map Digi Penfro
Pembrokeshire based digital deep mapping project in collaboration with Span Arts and Alan Cameron Wills
https://deep-map.azurewebsites.net/
May 2019
Rendes-vous Particulière: Potatoes from Egypt
Trilingual performance investigating shared personal and cultural values between Jersey and Wales. Morning Boat residency, supported by ArtHouse Jersey and Wales Arts International
Apr 2019 – July 2020
Digital Engagement Officer, Digidol Project, Span Arts. Leader and ACW pilot project exploring potential creative uses of digital technology to alleviate social isolation and improve community well-being.
April 2019
Gorsafoedd yr Albion/Stations of the Albion
Community promenade performance telling the story of the Albion, an emigrant ship that sailed from Cardigan to New Brunswick in Canada in 1819.
Jan 2018 – Jun 2018
Mapping the Model
Artist, Lead Creative Schools Project, Model Church in Wales School, Carmarthen. Working with Year 4 pupils on community mapping project. https://www.peoplescollection.wales/users/26381
May 2017 – Dec 2018
#CardiGras project to revive carnival in Cardigan
Jul 2016 – Nov 2016
Freelance Director, Hamlet, Shakespeare for Schools Festival, Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi.
Jan 2016 – Jun 2016
Shadow Puppet Workshop Facilitator, Small World Theatre working in primary schools in Cardiff, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire
Oct 2015
Y Ty Gwyn, Locative Installation, Rhôd in Roath
https://rhod.org.uk/2015/10/07/rhod-in-roath-rhod-yn-y-rhath-2015/
Jul 2015 – Nov 2015
Freelance Director, The Tempest, Shakespeare for Schools Festival, Ysgol Uwchradd Aberteifi.
Oct 2012 – Oct 2015
Teaching Fellow , Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University, Modules including Making theatre, Site specific performance, Politics, Media and Performance and Welsh medium theatre and Creative Media Practice modules.
June 2010
Hwyl Fawr Frank Lloyd Wright
Public art event and webcast celebrating Cardigan’s 900th anniversary, The Guild Hall, Cardigan. Project funded by Safle
January 2009
Menyw a ddaeth o Gatraeth / A Woman came from Catterick
Film short, 7 minutes. A response to the artist’s book, In Debatable Lands… by Iain Biggs with support from the Arts Council of Wales.
Aug – Sept 2008
A Grim Elegy Gallery
Art Claims Impulse, Berlin http://www.art-claims-impulse.com/ Performance installation and residency with the support of WAI
Sept – Oct 2007
Cerdded Adre –The Long Walk Home
Performance lecture tour, Experimentica 2007, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Meantime Space, Cheltenham, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
June 2007
The Decline and Fall of British Sea Power, Performance installation. Goldsmiths College, University of London
July 2005
Ex-Stasis
Performance research project researching ecstatic states led by Ailsa Richardson
Addysg / Education
2009 – 2013
Croesi’r Bar: Archwilio hunaniaeth y mewnfudwr Prydeinig trwy gyfrwng archif y artist Cliff McLucas (tr. Crossing the bar: Exploring the identity of the British incomer through the medium of the Cliff McLucas Archive), PhD. Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, Aberystwyth University
2006 – 2007
MA Performance Making, Goldsmiths, University of London
1995 – 1998
BA Theological and Religious Studies, Magdalene College, Cambridge University
Dr Rowan O'Neill 