If you have seen NCIS: Sydney on TV Channel 10 you may not know that its producer/director is Pauline Morgan O’Neill. Morgan was at Paul’s 1992-95 and Senior Student in 1994. He contributed widely to music, debating, Mummers, social rugby and JDDs while at College and was chair of the Intercol Committee. He went on to become a professional musician, singing jazz and playing saxophone, a showrunner, writer and director. He graduated from University of Sydney and National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1998.
His contribution to the entertainment industry in Australia and the US includes: television roles in Home and Away, All Saints, Water Rats and Sea Patrol; motion picture credits in Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles, Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback, Supernova, Little Oberon and the 2012 Netflix movie, The Factory, which he also directed; he directed the ABC TV Show Les Norton and most recently worked as a producer on Nine Network’s The Block.
He has recently produced and directed NCIS: Sydney which is showing currently on Channel 10 and streaming on 10Play.
His slick crime caper Solo is the first film produced by Project Greenlight Australia.
He is the winner of the first Project Greenlight Australia and continues to write scripts. Morgan says: “Filmmaking is such a collaborative effort, you have to test ideas, use the synergy of the group. And lastly, know that not winning is not losing. I’ve written so many plays that have been rejected. I know how difficult it is writing a screenplay.”
Congratulations to Morgan O’Neill who is generating great mass entertainment with careful research and well written scripts and engaging some of the best actors and emerging talent in Australia.
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