Dave O'Meara is a writer, director, and performer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 1999 to 2002, he was Artistic Director of Hotel Milwaukee, a weekly one-hour comedy-variety radio show on the Ideas Network of Wisconsin Public Radio. Under Dave's direction, the show won a Golden Reel Award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, and was selected to be aired nationally on the A&E Channel of Sirius Satellite Radio.

In addition to writing and performing the trio of "plays for one actor" which compose A Metaphysician in the Dark, Dave has also toured the Midwest (mainly bars and Irish festivals) with Moon & Cloud, a pair of "plays for one actor" which he adapted and performed from short stories by James Joyce and Joseph Gahagan.

Dave's screenplay, The Blue Elevator, based on "Parsimony," one of the plays collected in A Metaphysician in the Dark, is currently in development at North Of Two Productions in Hollywood.

Dave has recently been seen on the film festival circuit in Threads of Belonging, an independent motion picture by Jennifer Montgomery that explores the life of a "therapeutic community," a house where psychiatrists and psychotic patients live together as a sort of family. Dave plays Dr. Arnold Lasker, the founder and leader of the community - a character loosely based on R.D. Laing.

Through his production company, O Tempora! O Mores! Productions, Dave has produced and released spoken word recordings by curmudgeon Art Kumbalek and performance poet Dan Hanrahan.