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David Brendan O’Meara is a writer, actor and translator from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In addition to the novel My Way to Canossa, which began as a false blog in 2009 and was released in a 99-episode audio serial in 2024-25 and in a special print edition in 2026 by Manofalso Editores (Peru), Dave is the author of the three verse monologues (Parsimony, Group Theory, and Teratology) collected in book form as Three Plays for One Actor. Dave has translated the poetry and prose of such Latin American writers as Horácio Costa, Sergio Fong, Andrés Cisnegro, Rubén Medina, Julio Grotten and Juan Esteban Harrington, and toured Peru and Mexico withTeratología, his own translation of Teratology, published by Manofalsa Editores.


Other projects includeThe Death of the Homunculus, a remix of his experimental podcast, Five by Five, Bite Size (an aleatory poetry generator based the officia histories of traumatic events), and Kunst Mundo Discours, a multi-lingual re-imagining of the 2008 Whitney Biennial web catalog, (which unfortunately has been lost to changing web technologies.) His website, daveomeara.com, also features Crystal Cabinets, a collection of his critical writings in English and Spanish.


From 1999 to 2002, he was Artistic Director of Hotel Milwaukee, a weekly one-hour comedy-variety radio show on the Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio. Under Dave’s direction, the show won a Golden Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and was selected to be aired nationally on the A&E Channel of Sirius Satellite Radio.

As an independent audio producer, Dave has released Destination: Downtown, a comic walking tour of Milwaukee featuring Art Kumbalek, and Sermon of the Mouth, a collection of Dan Hanrahan’s energetic performance poetry from the early 1990s. He also produced, co-directed (with K O’Brien and Dave Maleckar) and played half of the narrator in Sweeny in the Trees, a 18-hour complete staged reading for the 50th anniversary of Flann O’Brien’s post-Joycean comic novel, At-Swim-Two-Birds.

Other recent projects include My Way to Canossa, a novel (OT!OM!, 2018, 2nd edition, 2023; audio serialization expected 2024); Three Plays for One Actor, a collection of verse monologues (OT!OM! September 2017), and The Death of the Homunculus, a remix of his experimental podcast, Five by Five. His website, daveomeara.com, also features Crystal Cabinets, a collection of his critical writings in English and Spanish.

As an audio producer, Dave has released Destination: Downtown, a comic walking tour of Milwaukee featuring Art Kumbalek, and Sermon of the Mouth, a collection of Dan Hanrahan’s energetic performance poetry from the early 1990s.  He also produced, co-directed (with K O’Brien and Dave Maleckar) and played half of the narrator in Sweeny in the Trees, a 18-hour complete staged reading for the 50th anniversary of Flann O’Brien’s post-Joycean comic novel, At-Swim-Two-Birds.

As a solo actor, Dave has performed the three monologues in Three Plays for One Actor (Parsimony, Group Theory, and Teratology) in various venues. Dave has also toured the Midwest (mainly bars and Irish festivals) with Moon & Cloud, a pair of “plays for one actor” which he adapted and performed from short stories by James Joyce and Joseph Gahagan.

Dave also appeared in Jennifer Montgomery’s Threads of Belonging (2003) as the leader of the film’s fictional therapeutic community.

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