About Beatrix O'Neal

Beatrix started out copying the voices that her mother would give different characters in bedtime stories, and this evolved into a passion for the creative depiction of characters and their different voices. She began to enthrall friends and strangers with her ability to change her vocal life to match any character from her stories. Even today, Beatrix is still driven to entertain people and portray moving characters.​

 

After teaching herself a French accent in the three hours before her first audition and landing the lead role in her high school play, Beatrix never let theatre go. She went on to star in several more high school productions, and win awards in a UIL one-act play contest. However, she wanted to be better, to know more, so she pursued higher education.

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​​In 2021 Beatrix began her BFA in Theatre and began to truly challenge herself, learning to make accents and voices a tool instead of a crutch. As her education continued she co-starred as Orpheus in Euridice. The next production Beatrix took part in was Love/Sick, in which she appeared as two different characters. One of the characters being a gay man, and the other a lesbian woman. ​

 

On the suggestion of the director of Euridice, Beatrix began to learn about directing in order to become a more skilled performer. As she did, she realized there was a story she needed to tell, a play she had to direct. So she was given a chance to direct Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy at UNT. A chance that she took, and with the help of a dedicated cast and crew, presented Incident at Vichy in her last semester as an undergraduate.​Her education and experience as a performer has helped Beatrix to be the dedicated, skilled, and dynamic artist she is today.