Colm O'Reilly

Colm O’Reilly has been a theater artist in Chicago for nearly 20 years and been in Oobleck shows for more than 10. He played Jim Lehrer in Mickle Maher’s The Strangerer Off-Broadway and in Chicago and created the role of Mephistopheles in the original production of An Apology… Other Oobleck work includes Letter Purloined, The Hunchback Variations, Spirits to Enforce, and Babbette’s Feast. He is a member of Curious Theatre Branch, performing most recently as Aston in The Caretaker, as well as in nearly 30 other plays, including ElvisBride, Waiting for Godot, Texts for Nothing at the MCA, Love Horse, Round and Round, and Whiskey in Blue. He was the voice of Cesare in Redmoon Theater’s The Cabinet. Colm is also a designer of sounds and graphics for Oobleck, Curious, and others.