Shannon O’Neill (Playwright) has been an active Factory Ensemble Member since 2003. She has worked with the company in many capacities – as an actor, writer, fight choreographer and production manager/producer. Her first contribution to The Factory as a playwright was with Jenny and Jenni in 2010; May the Road Rise Up marks her second full-length play for the company. As an actor: Dick Danger: DJ Crime Solver, Janice Dutts Goes to Life Camp, Mop Top Festival, White Trash Wedding and a Funeral – The Remount and Jenny and Jenni. As a production manager, O’Neill has produced Operation Infiltration and Incident on Run 1217, both by Joseph Jefferson Award-winning playwright Manny Tamayo. O’Neill graduated with a BA in Theater from Columbia College Chicago and has had the privilege of working with a variety of theaters in Chicago since then: Lifeline, Trap Door, Steep, Stage Left, Journeymen and The Hypocrites.