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Themed Entertainment Writer, Director & Experience Designer
Playwriting
Please contact at adam.b.oconnell@gmail.com for more information on these projects, as well as access to full scripts.
La Pucelle
all light on earth comes from somewhere else
Writer and Director
The Wallpaper Company, in association with All Out Arts, presents La Pucelle, a new play by Adam O'Connell as part of the 2024 Fresh Fruit Festival. La Pucelle is a folk retelling of the final days of Joan of Arc's life told through a uniquely trans and queer lens. As a child soldier approaches her inevitable execution, will her three sacred angels accept her for who she is before it's too late? And if you're going to be martyred anyway, does it really matter what you die for, and whose clothes you wear when it happens?
La Pucelle won four festival awards: Outstanding Costumes, Outstanding Debut Performance (for Mikah Mazza), Outstanding Production, and Outstanding Play (Drama).
Writer
A project by The Wallpaper Company as part of Real/Time Interventions' Post Theatrical festival, all light on earth is a play told through mail that seeks to reclaim lost queer futures from the wake of scrubbed archives, burned evidence, fabricated ephemera, and rot. Performed remotely during the COVID-19 lockdowns, each interwoven story is told entirely through the mail, as subscribers received weekly letters, images, packages, links, and more. My track, June, 1816, is told through the letters of Emmett Tendler, reaching out to the man he loves through territory lines, an abusive father, and a blizzarding winter in the middle of June. How do you stay warm in a year without a summer?