Known for his audacious artistic vision, O’Hara has directed around the country and has been credited with “shaking up the world, one audience at a time” (The New York Times).
He has won the NAACP Best Director Award, the Helen Hayes Award for
Outstanding New Play, two OBIE Awards and the Oppenheimer Award.
In preparing for the production, director O’Hara was struck by Banquo’s lines in Act 1 Scene 3 referencing the witches, “You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so,”
“That inherent contradiction stuck in my head,” said O’Hara. “And right then I was like, ‘Well maybe they're not women. Maybe they are
men!’ ” That moment of inspiration opened up the door for a concept
told from the point of view of the supernatural, specifically a warlock
coven recreating the tale of Macbeth.”
“People have asked me, ‘What will an all-male Macbeth
do to the story?’” says O’Hara. “I tell them, ‘I hope it will do
exactly what Shakespeare’s work should always do – give some insight
into the world in which we are living today.’”
