Oona O’Leary
Chief Storyteller

Oona finds the humor in life, whether in a staff meeting of consultants or on stage. She is the one to call for business inquiries. Alongside her day-to-day work on proposals, she also sets the tone for Threshold’s voice as Chief Storyteller, despite a deep suspicion of being musically tone-deaf.

Readers of Threshold’s collective bios may notice a trend among our consultants beginning first as young musicians, often times with parental influence. Oona failed out of piano lessons but she started writing stories as soon as she could stabilize a pencil. Her mother, also a writer and the parental influence here, taught her how to format a play at an impressionable age and to this day regrets it - suggesting at least once a year that law school is still a viable option.

Oona holds an MFA from Northwestern University and has performed sketch comedy across Chicago since 2011. In 2013 she performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with the London-based group Stand Up Tragedy. Two of her short plays have been produced by Chicago Dramatists. Her full-length screenplay EXPOSURE won second place in the inaugural Krevoy Screenwriting Fund Prize. Her one-act comedy Please Go Gentle into that Good Night was produced as part of the 2017 Araca Project at The American Theatre of Actors.