Jody O'Neill

White middle-aged woman, with mid-length light brown hair, smiles broadly, looking off-camera as if observing something.

Jody O'Neill, She/her/hers

Writer, Producer & Advocate, Ireland

Jody O’Neill is a writer, producer, and disability and neurodiversity advocate who has spent the past decade transforming accessibility and building community in the arts. Her work centers disabled and neurodivergent audiences and artists, embedding access into creative processes and challenging the barriers that limit participation. Over the past year, Jody consulted with the Dublin St. Patrick’s Festival on its Relaxed Parade Space and toured Grace, a production about a non-speaking girl with creatively embedded access. She also collaborated with non-speaking playwright Max Whelan to produce his first play, Unveiled, which was presented at three Irish festivals. Jody mentors disabled and neurodivergent artists and co-founded Neuroconvergence, an organization working to unite the neurodivergent community through an intersectional lens. She also curated and co-produced Neurofestivity, an accessible arts festival created for the neurodivergent community. Through storytelling, production, and advocacy, Jody works to transform public understanding of disability and neurodiversity. Her play What I (Don’t) Know About Autism won a Zebbie Award, and she received the 2025 Phelim Donlon Award.