Jeanie O’Hare

Commissioning Dramaturg

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RSC: Company Dramaturg at the RSC from 2005 to 2012.

TRAINED: The Royal Court, under Artistic Director Stephen Daldry, from 1994-2000. 

Jeanie is Director of New Work Development at the Public Theatre in New York. She was Chair of Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama from 2012-16, and Company Dramaturg for the Royal
Shakespeare Company for seven years. During that time, she edited classic plays and commissioned and developed new plays and musicals. She was Literary Manager of Hampstead Theatre from
2001-2004. In 2006, Jeanie commissioned Dennis Kelly to write the book of Matilda The Musical and two years later she commissioned Tim Minchin to write the songs.

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