Life Is A Stage

Acting Bio SALLY O’BOYLE began her theatre career at 5, putting on shows complete with costumes, makeup, sets, and lights for hostage family members. Acting out at each and every opportunity that followed, often on stage, she earned a B.S. in Drama and membership in Actor’s EQUITY, AFTRA and SAG. In ‘83, she appeared in Grease at the Waterfront Playhouse and never left Key West or its stages. Favorite roles include Babe/Crimes of the Heart, Betty/The Foreigner, Berdine/Psycho Beach Party directed by the legendary Ray Coates, and Rhetta/Pump Boys and Dinettes. She was the grieving widow in Three Little Comedies by Chekhov and Rose Ritz in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change from whence came Always A Bridesmaid. Financing for Sally’s theatre habit provided by Sally O’Boyle Realty.

Directing Bio (you get more lines if you direct!) SALLY O’BOYLE (Director) began her theatre career at age 5, putting on shows with her siblings and cousins - complete with costumes, makeup, sets, and lights – for hostage family members. In 1977, she earned a B.S. in Theatre Arts from Lindenwood University, participating in every theatrical event, onstage or backstage (often both), during her four years there. The road led to Los Angeles (not enough theatre) to New York City, where she earned membership in Actor’s EQUITY, SAG and AFTRA, and was a founding member of Encore Theatre Company. ETC produced seven plays in its four years, including The Lower Depths and The Ugly Duckling both of which Sally directed. Winters were spent in Key West and, in 1983, Sally got her first local acting job in Grease at the Waterfront Playhouse. The Key West theatre scene drew Sally like a fish to water…. NYC became a fond memory. Favorite roles include The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd, Babe in Crimes of the Heart, Betty in The Foreigner, Berdine in Psycho Beach Party directed by the legendary Ray Coates, Rhetta in Pump Boys and Dinettes, one of “the girls” in Sweet Charity, the grieving widow in Three Little Comedies by Chekhov, Mama/Aunt Mary in How I Learned to Drive, and the popular I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Sally made her Key West directorial debut with Stop Kiss at the Waterfront Playhouse in 2002 and was asked back to direct the main stage production of Misery in 2003. In May 2004, Sally directed the Keys’ Kids production of The Emperor’s New Clothes at KWHS. She is looking forward to her next opportunity to have 70 kids do what she says to do when she says to do it.