“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-
The Smuggler
SEPT 25th -Oct 13th, 2024
The Stage, San Jose, Ca
https://www.thestage.org/the-smuggler
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The Smuggler
SEPT 21/22 & SEPT 27/28 2024
BLOOMS BAR (AS IN LEOPOLD)
208 EAST 58TH, NEW YORK, NY
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PAST PRODUCTIONS
THE SMUGGLER
May 15th - June 9th, 2024
https://www.jobsitetheater.org/smuggler/
Tampa, Fla
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
Click Published to buy or Amazon link
PUBLISHED OCT, 2023
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TALKS AND LECTURES
Published Essay: April 2024
Thirst: My Journey into O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night
New Hibernia Review/ Iris Éireannach Nua: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies presents plainly argued scholarship on all aspects of Irish civilization. It seeks to address a readership of both professional scholars and educated readers as it examines, without political agenda, the cultures of the whole of Ireland. All disciplines are represented in the pages of New Hibernia Review; literary studies and history predominate. In additional to fully annotated scholarly articles, the journal also presents new Irish poetry and book reviews, as well as occasional memoirs and informal essays.
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/141
April - WBGH : The Culture Show with Jared Bowen
From there playwright Ronán Noone shows us how the other half lives–or rather works, sweats and toils to achieve the American dream. In his play “Thirst,” he takes us into the room where Eugene O'Neill's “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” didn’t happen. Focusing on the hired help servicing the Tyrone Family. Ronan Noone joins us to talk about examining the Irish-immigrant experience, the perils of family loyalties and the push and pull of despair and hope.
April, 9th
Bridgewater State University
The process of writing plays
March 2024:
Interview at Lyric Stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrfTIS6lEpc
https://www.lyricstage.com/an-interview-with-ronan-noone/
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