Welcome to J. Omar Hansen's official writer's website. Omar is an award winning, published and frequently produced playwright. He is also a novelist, children's writer, songwriter and storyteller. Take a look at Omar's work in the next pages and then contact him with any questions about productions and/or publication.
What's coming up!
BIELZY AND GOTTFRIED
will receive a second production this coming june at the Echo Theatre in Provo,Utah.
The regional debut of "Bielzy and Gottfried" was October 23-November 3 on the mainstage season at BYU-Idaho.
Suppose God and Lucifer joined forces to create a night of theatre. What would be the outcome? Comedy? Tragedy? Picture a modern day Job, a proud stone thrower named Joseph McCarthy, a devout christian woman on the brink of a spiritual meltdown, a lost Adam and Pandora, and finally, a dead man who can't see his past or face his future.
NEWS
Omar just received a fellowship grant from the Idaho Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the arts as a playwright and composer.
Omar is also a proud member of the Dramatist's Guild.
Omar's one act musical
HORNED WITCHES
just finished a two week run at the Romance Theatre in Haunted Romance.
CLEVER JACK AND THE PIRATES
Omar's new children's musical
for the Tellers and Troubadours Children's theatre just closed
having played to almost 3000 children in its two week run.
