Jean O’Hara’s journey in theatre began in college with Augusto Boal's theories concerning the “Theatre of the Oppressed.” “It’s about using theatre to look at social issues. I wasn’t into theatre so much until then—I’m not someone who was in plays all through high school and so on. Most of my theatre experience has been using theatre as a social tool, for awareness and education.”
She created and directed two theatre groups in New England to put these theories into action, before beginning the Spare Change Theatre Troupe for Humboldt County teens, which became a statewide model for using theatre for peer education. After earning her Masters in theatre with a political and physical theatre focus at HSU, O’Hara taught and directed at Dell’Arte and studied with the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Most recently here, she’s been directing productions of Salmon Is Everything, a play about the Klamath controversy created and performed by a cast of Native Americans and non-Natives from the community. She was co-director of the original production last year at HSU.
She's also teaching at HSU--- a course on “Theatre of the Oppressed.”
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