The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2018 Summer Season Playbill

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EUGENE O’NEILL THEATER CENTER
board of trustees
EUGENE O’NEILL THEATER CENTER
staff
Thomas Viertel, Chairman
Ruth Hendel, Vice Chair
Robyn Wolman, Secretary
Stephen Hendel, Treasurer
Jeff Aiosa
Jim Calhoun
Patricia Calhoun
Roger S. Christiansen
Ron Cowen
Steve Daren
Brian Dennehy
Michael Douglas
Lynn R. Fusco
Alva Greenberg
Carolyn Greenspan
Ted Hartley
George C. White, Founder
Preston Whiteway, Executive Director
* Honorary Trustee
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Heather Henson
David Jaffe
Herb Kohler, Jr.
Dorita Lieberman*
Daniel Lipman
Linda Mariani
David Preka
Harold Prince
Michael Rauh
Scott Richards
Sally Speer
Betsy White
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Torrence Browne, Art Director
Isaak Berliner, Photographer
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Preston Whiteway, Executive Director
Rachel Jett, Artistic Director, National Theater Institute
Pam Arciero, Artistic Director, National Puppetry Conference
Alexander Gemignani, Artistic Director, National Music Theater Conference
Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director, National Playwrights Conference
Chris Jones, Director, National Critics Institute
John McDaniel, Artistic Director, Cabaret & Performance Conference
Allison Acuff, Development Apprentice
Gabe Leuszler, Bartender
Aanika Allen, Schedule & Production Manager Lexy Leuszler, Literary Manager
Chelsey Barker, Gene’s General Store Staff Madison Marone, Business Apprentice
Eric Bemont, Facilities Manager
Steven Meeker Jr., Theatermakers Assistant
Isaak Berliner, Media Associate
Jake Miller, Facilities & Grounds Assistant
Mackenzie Blade, Assistant Production Manager Scott Murphy, NMTI Artistic Associate
Clara Blickenstaff, Business Manager
Austin Murray, NTI Program Representative
Rebecca Brill Weitz, Producing Apprentice Marcus Myler, Audio Supervisor
Daniel Brown, Development Associate
Carrigan O’Brian, NTI Program Representative
Torrence Browne, Marketing Associate
Helena Pennington, Literary & Library
Molly Burdick, Assistant Company Manager
Management Associate
Stacey Cain, Van Driver
Danielle Phillips, Bartender
Isaiah Campbell, Kitchen Assistant
Gabrielle Piazza, Company Manager
Tatianna Casas, Company Management Associate Jonas Picinich, IT Coordinator
Sophia Chapadjiev, Director of Education Alizae Powell, Summer Kitchen Assistant
& Young Playwrights Festival
John Reinschmidt, Executive Assistant
Zachary Cooper, Technical Director
& Special Events Coordinator
Renée Cox, Box Office
Colby Rison, Summer Kitchen Assistant
Jenna Doherty, Summer Housekeeper
Amanda Kay Ritchie, Director of Marketing
George Dowker, Van Driver
& College Relations
Grace Frahm, Assistant Company Manager Courtney Roque, NTI Program Assistant
Talia Frank-Stempel, Summer Kitchen Assistant Alix Rosenfeld, Script Coordinator
Marco Frucht, Van Driver
Janae Santiago, Kitchen Assistant
Austin Hayes, Master Electrician
Violet Saylor, NTI Program Representative
Al Heartley, Director of Development
Dani Schlenker, Summer Facilities Assistant
Michelle Holcomb, Assistant Chef
Gaines Semler, Gene’s General Store Staff
Lydia Johnson, Summer Facilities Assistant Lillian Sheridan, Summer Housekeeper
Harvey Lee Jones, Chef
Chandler Smith, Associate Producer
Dariya Kimmes, Van Driver
Bill Speer, Housekeeper
Bonnie Kramm, General Manager
Stephanie Sutera, Housekeeper
Samantha Lancaster, Assistant Master Electrician Leya Van Doren, Business Associate
Johanna Laverty, Pub Manager
Darcy Van Ness, Development Associate
Wayne Lippert, Facilities & Grounds Assistant Ash Zeitler, Assistant Audio Supervisor
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WELCOME FROM BOARD CHAIRMAN
tom viertel
Welcome to the O’Neill! Beginning with our National
Playwrights Conference in 1964, the leading and
emerging playwrights of that time helped us to create the
development process you are taking part in today. At the
time nothing like it existed. It has served as a model for
every other play development program in America ever
since.
As time went on, development of new work at the O’Neill
grew to encompass musicals, puppetry, and cabaret. Within a few years of its founding,
the O’Neill began the National Theater Institute, a school to develop the next generation
of playwrights, actors, directors, and designers by providing an immersive term-away
education for college-age students. In addition to the NTI’s fall and spring term programs
there is now an NTI summer session, Theatermakers, whose students may be among you
tonight.
We continue to build our school because we are convinced that inspiring and training
new generations of theater artists is vital to this wonderful, age-old art. All of our students
study all aspects of theater — writing, directing, acting, design, voice, and movement.
Many of them discover what they love most while they are here with us. Many of their lives
are changed profoundly, and all of them grow as artists.
One of the main thrusts of the growth of the O’Neill over the years that I have been Board
Chairman is to integrate our many programs to provide crucial networking opportunities.
One of the ways we did so this year is by providing professional artists the space to work
on campus during the NTI fall and spring terms, allowing both master teaching moments
and a chance for students to participate in the creation of new work at the professional
level. We continuously seek ways to connect our many programs to make the most of the
enormous talent with us on campus.
One of the things most often said of the O’Neill is that it is “magical.” Of course, part of
that is our gorgeous campus, but even more important is the encouragement our artistic
directors give to the artists and students who work here to “risk, fail, risk again” — the
mantra of the O’Neill. Taking chances, big and small, is such an important part of artistic
discovery. Our job is to create a world where that challenge is taken seriously.
Welcome to the O’Neill — and the unique experience that awaits you.
WELCOME FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
preston whiteway
Welcome to the launchpad of the American theater.
Your presence is an essential element in launching and shaping
these new works for the nation. Thank you for being part of our
magic.
On this campus, year-round, artists and projects incubate that
will shape culture for decades to come.
The O’Neill is always evolving, too — we’re growing in
programs, projects, budget, staff, and partnerships, all with one goal: to discover and support
the most exciting new work in America. Just a few of our new projects include a joint MFA with
Rose Buford College in London, completely upgraded lighting systems in the Barn and Dina, and
welcoming Alexander Gemignani to lead our National Music Theater Conference.
I invite you to enjoy the show, and thank you for supporting the best of new work in America.
about preston whiteway
Preston Whiteway was appointed Executive Director in January 2007, after serving the O’Neill
as General Manager since 2004. Under his leadership, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center was
awarded both the National Medal of Arts by President Barrack Obama in 2016, and the 2010
Regional Theatre Tony Award. Since 2005, the O’Neill’s budget has grown by 140%, with
especially strong earned revenue growth in his time. Significant projects developed at the O’Neill in
his tenure include: In The Heights (2005); [title of show] (2005); The Receptionist (2006); Tales of the
City (2009); The Nether (2013); Superhero (2017); and others.
While at the O’Neill, Preston has secured a new 60-year lease of the grounds, gained significant
facility investments and repairs to every building, and completed the largest expansion in the
organization’s history, with nine new buildings and major new programming launched as part of an
$8 million capital campaign.
In spring 2017, Preston produced a Broadway concert of Tales of the City at the Music Box Theatre,
benefiting the O’Neill and The Trevor Project. And for the organization’s 50 th Anniversary in 2014,
he negotiated a major book release from Yale University Press, resulting in The O’Neill: The
Transformation of Modern American Theater by Jeffrey Sweet, and also acted as photography editor.
He additionally secured a four month exhibition at the New York Library for the Performing Arts entitled
Launchpad of the American Theater: The O’Neill Since 1964. Both projects chart the enormous role
the O’Neill has played in shaping the American theater landscape — its artists, canon of work, and
innovation of new forms.
Preston joined the O’Neill upon graduating from Duke University, with a BA in Economics; has
been profiled by the New York Times, Hartford Courant, and CBS Sunday Morning; and serves as a
Trustee of the Southeastern Connecticut Cultural Coalition and of the Eastern Connecticut Chamber of
Commerce. In 2014, he was named to a three-year term to the nominating committee of the Tony
Awards. A native of Virginia, Preston lives in New London, Connecticut.
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cottage
restoration
Last fall, Eugene O’Neill’s boyhood
home — the Monte Cristo Cottage —
received some much-needed
upgrades with a new cedar roof
and restored copper gutters.
40 years of
nmtc
Our 2017 Summer Gala celebrated
40 years of the National Music Theater
Conference and the final season of
Founding Artistic Director Paulette
Haupt with performances by NMTC
alumni Tom Kitt, Julia Murney, Lance
Horne, and more.
nti spring ‘18
In January 2018, we welcomed
26 students studying with the
National Theater Institute.
Highlights include working with
acclaimed director Seret Scott,
Obie Award-winning playwright Adam
Bock, and film creator Bridie Elliott.
dracula at
the o’neill
Strangemen & Co. developed an
adaptation of Steve Dietz’s Dracula
in September 2017 as part of the
annual Jim Henson Foundation
Puppetry Residency.
o’neill
residencies
Last year featured major developmental
workshops of All Hallow’s Eve, an immersive
musical with 20-foot puppets by Sesame Street
puppeteer and National Puppetry Conference
faculty member Martin P. Robinson, and
Bedlam’s adaptation of Peter Pan which
subsequently premiered off-Broadway
in November 2017.
nti fall ‘17
In September 2017, we welcomed 50
students to the National Theater
Institute, our largest class to date.
Highlights from the semester include
working with Tony-nominated actress
Judy Kuhn, acclaimed composer Kirsten
Childs, and NTI alumni company The
Debate Society.
the miranda
studio
In May 2018, the studio in Henson Hall
was renamed the Lin-Manuel Miranda
Studio, dedicated to this alumnus’ achievements
and support of the O’Neill and its artists.
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lin-manuel miranda
receives the 18 th annual
monte cristo award
Become a Member
O’Neill members are at the core of our family and a staple of the summer season, supporting new
musicals, plays, and works of puppetry and cabaret. To bring this work alive, your support is key!
individual membership
Receive access to new work and artists while spending a summer on the O’Neill’s historic oceanside
campus. Benefits include free tickets and ticket exchanges, discounts on merchandise and tickets,
invitations to artist receptions, tickets to Summer Gala, reserved parking, and more.
corporate membership
Your business will benefit from exposure, both local and beyond, while supporting new work and
new artists. Benefits include ads on Playbills, tickets, emails, and website; free tickets for employees;
invitations to artist receptions, gala, private tours, and more.
To sign up or learn more about membership:
Visit www.theoneill.org/membership, email membership@theoneill.org,
or call (860) 443-5378 ext. 255.
On April 30 th , the O’Neill honored multi-discipline creative artist Lin-Manuel Miranda with its 18 th
Annual Monte Cristo Award. An alumnus of the O’Neill, Miranda’s first professional production was
at the 2005 National Music Theater Conference with In the Heights. The O’Neill annually bestows
the Award on a prominent theater artist whose work has had an extraordinary impact on American
theater, in memory of its namesake. The gala dinner’s centerpiece was a conversation with
Lin-Manuel and Lindsay Mendez and the evening featured performances of some of Miranda’s work
— with appearances by Karen Olivo, Anthony Ramos, Judith Light, Javier Muñoz, and Christopher
Jackson. Music director Alex Lacamoire led a band of musicians from the Broadway orchestras of
In the Heights and Hamilton. The evening raised $575,000 to support the O’Neill’s commitment to
developing new work and new artists for the stage.
the miranda family fund
Lin also discussed the scholarship that he and his family set-up. The Miranda Family Fund was
created to provide scholarships for artists of color to attend the O’Neill’s National Theater Institute.
NTI is a pipeline to the profession — and with this partnership, The Miranda Family Fund and NTI
helps further the inclusion of artists of color across all disciplines of theater. “My time at the O’Neill was
challenging and formative. The work we did there was instrumental in the development of In The
Heights. The long days and nights immersed in the musical, alongside the cast and creative team,
was a thrilling first for me in that kind of environment. I want as many emerging artists as possible to
enjoy that experience. My family and I are excited to be able to partner with the O’Neill to help make
that happen for more talented artists of color who are creating new work.”
the eugene o’neill theater center’s
2018 summer gala
A CONCERT BY BROADWAY’S ABBY MUELLER
THE MUSIC OF CAROLE KING
AT 6 PM
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Now in its 28 th season, the National Puppetry Conference provides a meeting and creating
ground for master artisans to pass their craft and ingenuity to new artists in the field of
puppetry. Each June, participants gather from across the globe to create works that defy
the bounds of contemporary theater and the imagination.
Puppet artists participate in workshops, rehearsals, master classes, and individual critique
sessions over the 12-day conference. In the spirit of founding members Jane Henson;
George Latshaw; Richard Termine; Bobbi Nidzgorski; Bart P. Roccoberton, Jr.; and Jim
and Margo Rose, the Conference remains dedicated to creating a nurturing and supportive
environment for artists to explore performance styles, develop new works of puppetry, and
discover innovative techniques and projects that expand the boundaries of puppetry in
performance. The Conference culminates in two public performances, featuring works that
explore the extraordinary range and power of the puppet.
Past participants have gone on to work in such puppetry venues as HERE Arts Center
(NYC), The Puppet Showplace (Massachusetts), St. Ann’s Warehouse (NYC), The Sandglass
Theatre (Vermont), Dixon Place (NYC), The Center for Puppetry Arts (Atlanta), Zeum (San
Francisco), and the El Capitan (Los Angeles). Broadway shows featuring alumni include
The Addams Family, Rite of Spring, Big Fish, Little Shop of Horrors, and Beauty and the
Beast, to name a few. Television and films include Sesame Street, The Muppet Show,
The Muppet Movies, Between the Lions, Blue’s Clues, Bear in the Big Blue House,
and many more. Internationally, our artists have appeared in The Castiliers Festival in
Montreal, Canada; The Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland; The Festival du Mondial
des Theatre du Marionettes in Charleville-Meiziers, France; and multiple festivals in China
and Eastern Asia.
Outreach has also been a part of the Conference’s success, with a video on Land Mine
Awareness in Afghanistan, and international shows on varied topics including women’s
issues, health and sanitation, disaster preparedness, and economic practices in India,
Uganda, Iran, and more.
pam arciero
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR • NATIONAL PUPPETRY CONFERENCE
Pam Arciero is a principal puppeteer with Sesame Street
performing numerous characters, most notably Grundgetta
Grouch, Oscar’s girlfriend. She has worked on many adult and
children’s programs including Between the Lions, Lomax: The
Hound of Music, Blue’s Clues: Blue’s Room, Chappell’s Show,
Allegra’s Window, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, TV Funhouse, Oobi, Eureeka’s Castle,
and The Great Space Coaster. She has performed in many commercials and films, including
commercials for Zappos, Fuze, and Angel Soft, and the films Sundance Myths, Sundance
Film Festival: Extreme Measures, Little Monsters, and Follow That Bird. As a stage director,
she directed Iftah Ya Simsim for Sesame Street Saudi Arabia, Elmo’s World Live, Oscar’s Big
Game Show, Gotta Dance, Bird’s Beach Party for Sesame Place, Play with Me Sesame Live,
and Disney’s Wahoo Wagon at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles. Pam directed the film
Whiskey Neat, and she has also directed Between the Lions and Oobi for television. Pam
has taught for the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, the University of Hawaii, Sesame
Street International, the University of Connecticut, the National Theater Institute, and
California State University, Fresno. She holds an undergraduate degree in Drama from the
University of Hawaii and a master’s degree in Puppetry from the University of Connecticut.
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special thanks
Heather Henson for her many years of generous and constant support.
Cheryl Henson & The Jim Henson Foundation for the Jim Henson Residency at the
O’Neill.
Dorita & Ted Lieberman for continued support.
Preston Whiteway for his inspiring leadership, support, and advice.
The O’Neill Staff for all they do.
scholarship support
Our deepest gratitude to those who have supported our puppetry scholarships:
Allelu Kurten Generous Spirit Scholarship
Alumni Scholarship & Travel Stipend
Connecticut Guild of Puppetry Scholarship in honor of Margo Rose
Eric Engelhardt Memorial Scholarship
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center Scholarship
Founders Award
Jerry Nelson Scholarship
Lisa Simon Scholarship
Ralph Cheese Minority Scholarship
the pre-conference workshops
TEXT CREATION AND INTERPRETATION
led by Ronnie Burkett
THE LANGUAGE OF MATERIAL AND OBJECTS:
MOVEMENT AND EXPERIMENTAL PUPPETRY
led by Alice Gottschalk
EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT MECHS AND THEN SOME!
led by Jim Kroupa
main conference
Ensemble and Guest Artists provide participants the opportunity to work side by side with
premier puppet artists, learning skills and techniques.
THE PUPPETEER, THE OBJECT, AND THE SECRET IN BETWEEN with Yael Rasooly
in collaboration with Iliya Magalnyk actively investigates, explores, and develops the
various channels of relationship between the performer and object. The workshop aims
to dive into the process of creation itself, giving tools for working with others and working
alone.
CRAVE with Ronnie Burkett is a new work featuring a company of a dozen puppeteers
manipulating two figures and the environment they live in, resulting in a non-verbal
exploration of theater. CRAVE (cradle/grave) is Mr. Burkett’s first group project at the
O’Neill.
MARIONETTE MANIPULATION AND CONSTRUCTION with Jim Rose, Phil Huber,
and Kurt Hunter offers a thorough examination of marionette design, layout, and
construction methods for the creation of a new marionette, as well as an advanced study
of marionette manipulation.
MUSIC COMPOSITION with Dr. Melissa Dunphy gives music participants the unique
opportunity to collaborate with puppetry artists as they create new works for the stage.
Participants work with the artists and directors to help tell their story with music.
WRITING: SHAPE AND STORY with Martin Kettling: as both creators and cosmologists
of their own baby universes, participants delve deeply into terra incognita and explore.
Participants will attempt to understand what it is that makes drama effective and affecting.
THE EMERGING ARTIST strand invites previous participants to return to the Conference
to further develop their artistic voice and vision, under the guidance of Richard Termine
and Derron Wood.
RESIDENT COMPANY with Jane Martineau develops a small company to support
emerging artists and the artists in residence throughout the Conference.
PARTICIPANT PROJECTS are short works created by the participants apart from the
regular activities. All works are presented to the conference on the final morning of the
Conference. Jean Marie Keevins directs this program.
VIDEO ANARCHY
led by Tim Lagassee with Martin P. Robinson
YOUR VOICE IN COMEDIC WRITING: COMEDIC STRUCTURE AND
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
led by Michael Paul Ziegfeld
support for the 2018 national
puppetry conference provided by:
The Jane Henson Foundation • The Joseph C. and Esther Foster Foundation, Inc. •
Dorita & Ted Lieberman • Heather Henson
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national puppetry
conference staff
Pam Arciero, Artistic Director
Jean Marie Keevins, Associate Artistic Director
Bart P. Roccoberton, Jr., Production Manager
Richard Termine, Emerging Artist Co-Director
Derron Wood, Emerging Artist Co-Director
Phillip Huber, Marionette Master (Manipulation)
Jim Rose, Marionette Master (Construction)
Yael Rasooly, Guest Artist
Iliya Magalnyk, Guest Artist
Ronnie Burkett, Guest Artist
Jesse Byeirs, Assistant to Mr. Burkett
Kurt Hunter, Assistant to Mr. Rose
Jim Kroupa, Guest Artist (Mechanisms)
Alice Gottschalk, Guest Artist (Movement)
Tim Lagasse, Guest Artist (Video Anarchy)
Martin P. Robinson, Guest Artist (Video Anarchy)
Michael Paul Ziegfeld, Guest Artist (Your Voice in Comedy)
Dr. Melissa Dunphy, Musical Director
Matt Dunphy, Musical Assistant
Martin Kettling, Writing Coach
Lexy Leuszler, Resident Dramaturg
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James Godwin, Assistant Director of Participant Projects
Jonathan Little, Shop Steward
Ulysses Jones, Shop Steward
Zach Broome, Evening Shop Assistant
Matt Lazarus, Lighting Designer
David Regan, Technical Director
Seth Kropowski, Production Assistant to Mr. Burkett
Rachel Leigh Roccoberton, Production Assistant to Ms. Rasooly
Tracy Becker, Production Assistant
Sharon Challenger, Artistic Associate
Tom Cariello, Artistic Associate
Calvin Tamura, Artistic Associate
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The National Theater Institute’s Theatermakers Summer Intensive enables actors,
directors, and playwrights to spend six weeks training in a single discipline and producing
new works alongside the O’Neill’s professional conferences. In addition to daily classes,
students bring original work to life each week written, directed, and performed by the
ensemble. Join us Mondays at 7pm as the Theatermakers works-in-progress are
given public presentations. Free and open to the public.
rachel jett
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR • NATIONAL THEATER INSTITUTE
Rachel​ha​s been a proud ​faculty member of NTI since 1998 and
is an alumna of the NTI, NTI-Advanced Directing, and Moscow
Art Theatre Semesters. S​he is a ​performer and ​lyricist/librettist. ​
A 2006 Baryshnikov Fellow, she holds an MFA from NYU Tisch
School of the Arts Musical Theater Writing Program and is the first American aspirant to
Andrei Droznin, master teacher of movement at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, Russia.
She is one of the few practitioners teaching his method of Russian movement in the U.S. ​She
is a former company member of the award-winning SYNETIC Theater in Washington, D.C. ​
She also appears in the ​short film STAG ​written by Donna Di Novelli​and was most recently
seen in Jody McAuliffe’s stage adaptation of Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist.​She is also thrilled
with her role as mom to Jett and Phoenix.
2018 theatermakers ensemble
Emma Anderson, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Michelle Atwood, Wellesley College
Tameka Bennett, Post-Graduate
Ahnna Beruk, Duke University
Jonathan Binion, Drake University
Ludmila Brito, Post-Graduate
Abbey Burgess, Yale University
Marielle Burt, Brown University
Ella Chen, University of California
Los Angeles
Quincy Confoy, Brown University
Diana Dimiri, Northwestern University
Lydia Duff, Bennington College
Owen Elphick, Emerson College
Issac Lunt, Post-Graduate
Joan Milburn, Southwestern University
Valerie Muensterman, Duke University
Evan Peterson, Post-Graduate
Lucy Purnine, Vassar College
Antoinette Ramrey, The Alabama State University
Genevieve Riordan, Hampshire College
Savannah Ritz, Southwestern University
Gilberto Saenz, Yale University
Christopher Sferra, Southern Methodist University
Nathan Sorscher, Brown University
theatermakers staff
Rachel Jett, Artistic Director
Olivia Kasten, Theatermakers Associate
Jasen Miyamoto, Theatermakers Associate
Steven Meeker, Jr., Theatermakers Assistant
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national theater institute
Imagine an entire semester devoted to studying theater. Only theater. Every person there is
utterly devoted to the same thing. A community of theater practitioners all working towards
the same goals. That is the National Theater Institute. Founded in 1970, a “semester-away”
at NTI is a crucible unlike any other credit-earning undergraduate training program in the
nation. NTI also offers semesters in Advanced Directing and Advanced Playwriting.
Offered in the spring and the fall, NTI is for driven young artists eager to learn from master
teachers ten hours a day, seven days a week; training in acting, directing, playwriting,
design, voice, and movement. Additionally, two weeks are spent studying in London.
national music theater
institute
Called the place for those “who will be writing, designing, staging, and performing the
Broadway musicals of the 2020s and beyond” by Playbill, NMTI is offered every fall for
students seeking a launchpad into the music theater profession through ensemble training
in all aspects of music theater. Led by ​Artistic Associate Scott Murphy (Richard Rodgers
Award and Jonathan Larson Grant recipient), the program offers a conservatory-like
training regimen with a faculty of professional artists and a two-week residency in New
York City. NMTI is an ideal springboard for those pursuing a career in music theater to
hone their craft, find their voice, and meet with like-minded collaborators.
Semester-long credit-earning theater training at the
Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, recipient of
two Tony Awards and the National Medal of Arts
RISK. FAIL. RISK AGAIN.
RISK. FAIL. RISK AGAIN.
With a singular schedule and an unmatched breadth of training, NTI’s six semester-long
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theater intensives, taught by industry professionals and master teachers, train actors,
singers, directors, dancers, designers, playwrights, and composers.
moscow art theatre semester
NTI’s Moscow Art Theatre Semester is a prestigious, credit-earning13-week study abroad
program offered every fall at the Moscow Art Theatre, the birthplace of modern theater
and modern actor training. Conservatory rigor meets cultural immersion with classes in
acting, movement, voice, Russian theater history, design, and language at the famed
school. In 2016, the program celebrated 25 years of its historic partnership.
@NTIRiskFailRisk
National Theater Institute • National Music Theater Institute
Moscow Art Theatre Semester • Advanced Playwrights
Advanced Directors • Theatermakers Summer Intensive
www.NationalTheaterInstitute.org
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q&a with
alexander gemignani
NATIONAL MUSIC THEATER CONFERENCE
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR IN HIS INAUGURAL YEAR
green eugene
This spring, we began a major renovation of the Rufus and Margo Rose Barn Theater and
Dina Merrill Theater. As part of our “Green Eugene” initiative to make our campus more
sustainable and environmentally friendly, these iconic spaces underwent a total renovation
to modernize the lighting systems. In addition to critical structural and cosmetic repairs,
the spaces were re-wired and LED fixtures installed to improve the energy efficiency, design
capabilities, and comfort of these theaters and classroom spaces.
This project is made possible through the support of generous individuals, O’Neill
alumni, Nina Rumbough, PRG, Dominion Energy, and the Chelsea Groton Foundation.
by the numbers
1 ST BARN ELECTRICAL
UPGRADE SINCE
1966
360° 88
OF DESIGN CAPABILITY NEW BARN LIGHTS
LED THEATRICAL FIXTURES
REDUCE ENERGY USE BY
82%
350
FEET OF NEW CABLE
You have worked on some of the canon’s
most beloved shows. Tell us about your
background with new work:
As an actor I have been in countless table
reads, full readings, and workshops. As a
writer, music director, and educator, I am
surrounded by new ideas and new voices all
the time. Music theater is ever expanding and
absorbing all the ideas that came before and
all the ideas yet to be discovered. This year
marks my 17 th in the theater and I am eager
to help create and encourage a legacy of
powerful new work.
Why did you want to become the NMTC Artistic Director?
NMTC is a remarkable haven for artistic growth and development. I wanted to be on the ground with
the writers and creative teams, rolling my sleeves up, helping to shape the voices that will continue to
influence and change the future of music theater. I can’t imagine a more exciting proposition.
What are your goals for music theater’s future?
My hope for the future of music theater is that we continue to embrace bravery, inclusion, and
imagination. I mean this in a broad sense, but also in the ways in which stories are being told and
what kinds of stories are being told. When those two things are present in the same piece, theater
is electric. I was blown away by the variety and bravery in the works submitted this year. I hope we
double the amount of submissions we received this coming fall and break 500. I think the Literary
Office (led by the fantastic Lexy Leuszler) would be a tad overworked if that were the case, but I want
to see how brave our writers can be.
Why has the “O’Neill Process” endured?
So often a reading of a new show is performed once and then never revisited in front of an
audience again (or not until the writers and creative team have time to get together to meet and pay
for additional readings). At the O’Neill, the concentrated rehearsal and rewrite time, as well as the
opportunity to share the work four times over the two-week residency, allows the piece to grow and
change as a result of practical experimentation in front of an audience. Additionally, the O’Neill offers
unmatched dramaturgical support (this year lead by the fantastic Carrie Chapter) and, even more
importantly, the time and encouragement to experiment with big changes in the work. To my
knowledge, there is no other place that develops work this way, and is one of the primary reasons why
the O’Neill continues to be at the forefront of new work.
What do this season’s three works signal to you ​about the future of the American musical?
These musicals represent the kind of bravery and craft I will continue to seek out. Masi Asare’s The
Family Resemblance has a deep vein of beauty and light running through it. The powerful themes
within about cultural identity and family spoke to my sensibilities immediately. Teeth — the offering
from Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson — is daring, masterful, and white-knuckle exciting. I
cannot wait to see this in front of an audience. And finally, Eddie The Marvelous, Who Will Save The
World, by Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses, is magical, funky, and fabulous. The incredible rock score,
truly imaginative story, and deep heart of the piece hooked me and several of our readers instantly.
Each of these musicals represent a giant step towards the bright future of music theater.
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The National Music Theater Conference is the nation’s premier program developing
and launching new musicals by emerging and established artists. Each year, three new
music theater works, drawn from a national submission process, undergo intensive
development with leading directors, dramaturgs, and actors, culminating in public,
script-in-hand staged readings.
The Conference supports the development of all styles and genres of music theater,
including operas and hybrid works. Since 1978, NMTC has provided a supportive
and challenging environment for the development of new theater and its creators. This
intensive environment encourages creative artists to take risks in order to refine and
illuminate their work’s vision during its formative stages.
This year’s three musicals drawn from a pool of 287 applicants are among 143 developed at
the O’Neill including Avenue Q, In the Heights, Violet, Nine, and In Transit.
alexander gemignani
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR • NATIONAL MUSIC THEATER CONFERENCE
Alexander Gemignani is an actor, musical director, composer/
lyricist, orchestrator, and educator and is thrilled to add artistic
director of NMTC to his resumé. He is currently in the Broadway
revival of Carousel (Mr. Snow, Tony and Drama Desk nominations)
after opening the Chicago company of Hamilton (King George).
His Broadway acting credits include: Violet (Father), Chicago (Billy), Les Misérables
(Valjean, Drama League nomination), Sweeney Todd (Beadle, Drama Desk nomination),
Assassins (Hinckley, Theatre World Award), The People In The Picture (Moishe), Sunday
in the Park With George (Boatman/Dennis). Off-Broadway: Road Show at the Public
(Addison Mizner, Drama League nomination), Headstrong at EST (Nick) and Avenue Q at
the Vineyard Theatre (Brian). Favorite Regional: The Three Sisters at Cincinnati Playhouse
(Andrei), Oklahoma! at THE MUNY (Jud Fry), The Boys From Syracuse at The Shakespeare
Theatre of D.C. (Sergeant) and the title character in the world premiere musical Saint-Ex
at The Weston Playhouse. Concerts: Encores! 1776 at New York City Center (Rutledge),
the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, LA
Phil at the Hollywood Bowl, and Lincoln Center’s American Songbook.
He has premiered solo shows at the Kennedy Center (Barbara Cook’s Spotlight),
The Sheen Center, Birdland, and Feinstein’s. TV/Film: Empire (recurring), Homeland
(recurring), Chicago Fire, The Good Wife, Empire State (pilot), and the film The Producers.
As a composer/lyricist, he is currently developing four new musicals and has composed
the incidental music for several plays. As a musical director, he is currently in development
for productions with the Public Theater and Roundabout Theatre Company.
He has served on the faculty of the National Theater Institute and NYU. Alexander is a
member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a proud graduate of
the University of Michigan. His greatest joys are his incredible wife, Erin Ortman, and their
amazing daughter, Olive.
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national music theater
conference staff
Alexander Gemignani, Artistic Director
Robert Bennett, Production Stage Manager
Carrie Chapter, Lead Dramaturg
Lindsay Levine, CSA, Casting Director
Ryan Looke, Assistant Stage Manager
Frederick Kennedy, Burry Fredrick Sound Design Fellow
Amanda Baschnagel, Assistant to the Artistic Director
the paulette haupt
composition prize
In recognition of the enormous contribution Paulette Haupt made to the O’Neill and
its artists over four decades as Founding Artistic Director of the National Music Theater
Conference (1978 - 2018), the Paulette Haupt Composition Prize is made annually to a
composer in residence at NMTC. The purpose of this award is to recognize and support a
promising, talented composer early in their career. The endowed fund was created through
the support of many donors; lead gifts were generously provided by Robert Lopez & Kristen
Anderson-Lopez, Sally Speer, Wendy MacDonald, and Sheldon Harnick.
2018 nmtc readers
Derin Altay-Gemignani
Mark Blankenship
Daniel Breaker
Carrie Chapter
Walter Chon
Maegan Clearwood
Melissa Crespo
Mia Crivello
Kurt Crowley
Ian Eisendrath
Daniel Glenn
Emma Goidel
Linda Goodrich
Martine Kei Green-Rogers
Claire Hirschi
Nehal Joshi
Megan Larche Dominick
Lexy Leuszler
Lysna Marzani
Karen Olivo
Jesse Perez
Jill Rafson
Gina Rattan
Keith Reddin
Thom Sesma
Natasha Sinha
Ben Steinfeld
Caridad Svich
Yuvika Tolani
Miriam Weiner
Alan Zackheim
Meg Zervoulis
the georgia bogardus holof
lyricist award
In loving memory of his wife, Robert Holof has endowed a fund through the Eugene O’Neill
Theater Center to present an award to a lyricist in residence at NMTC each summer. Georgia
Bogardus Holof developed Fahrenheit 451 with her collaborators Ray Bradbury and David
Metee. In honor of her bountiful talent and courageous spirit, the purpose of this award is
to recognize and support a promising, talented lyricist early in their career. Past awards have
gone to Maryrose Wood (2001), Stephan Tomac (2002), Beth Blatt (2003), Lauren Robert
(2004), Lin-Manuel Miranda (2005), Ellen Fitzhugh (2006), David Rossmer & Dan Lipton
(2007), John Mercurio (2008), Daniel Zaitchik (2009), Alison Louise Hubbard (2010), Don
Chaffer (2011), Bryan Putnam (2012), Christopher Dimond (2013), Jim Bauer (2014), Adele
Ahronheim (2015), David H. Bell & Daniel Green (2016), and Ronvé O’Daniel (2017).
june 23 at 7 pm, june 24 at 3 pm
june 27 at 8 pm, june 29 at 7 pm
Directed by Awoye Timpo
Music Directed by David Gardos
Dramaturged by Kent Nicholson
MASI ASARE
Akosua and her family are expecting an ordinary Christmas back home in Pennsylvania,
but heavy winds, a corporate crisis, and a visitation from an ancestor mean things do not
go as planned. This semiautobiographical musical centers on three generations of one
cross-cultural family. Even when your heritage is all over the map, you have to go back to
your roots to find your way forward. The score includes American folk and popular song,
West African highlife, and Akan classical music. Masi Asare is a composer, lyricist, and
playwright whose work has been seen at NYMF, Playwrights Horizons, and Theatre Royal
Stratford East. She is currently writing lyrics for the Broadway-bound new musical Monsoon
Wedding.
Major Underwriting for The Family Resemblance provided by Yin Yoga Group.
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june 30 at 7 pm, july 1 at 3 pm
july 4 at 8 pm, july 6 at 7 pm
july 7 at 7 pm, july 8 at 3 pm
july 11 at 8 pm, july 13 at 7 pm
MICHAEL R. JACKSON
ANNA K. JACOBS
Directed by Portia Krieger
Music Directed by Julie McBride
Dramaturged by Allison Horsley
Adapted from an award-winning indie horror film, Teeth tells the story of Dawn O’Keefe,
an evangelical Christian teen with a powerful secret: she has teeth in her vagina. When
the men in Dawn’s life try to exploit her, she is forced to choose between survival or
destruction. Michael R. Jackson’s (book & lyrics) work has been seen at Lincoln
Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Joe’s Pub, NAMT, and Williamstown Theatre
Festival. He is the recipient of the 2017 Jonathan Larson Grant and Lincoln Center Emerging
Artist Award. Anna K. Jacobs (book & music) is a Brooklyn-based composer, lyricist, and
librettist whose work has been seen at Yale Rep, Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, Goodspeed,
and Barrington Stage Company. She is a former Sundance Fellow and Dramatists Guild
Fellow.
support for the 2018 national music
theater conference provided by:
Directed by Evan Yionoulis
Music Directed by Wiley DeWeese
Dramaturged by Carrie Chapter
KATE KILBANE & DAN MOSES
Eddie the Marvelous fronts a band, struts the stage, and saves the world. Eddie the
Real can’t leave the house, can’t hold a job, and can’t keep a friend. His mom makes
every sacrifice, but when she finds a new man, neither Eddie knows what to say or what
to sing. Husband and wife duo Dan Moses and Kate Kilbane make up the Oakland,
CA-based theatrical rock band The Kilbanes. Together, they have written three rock
musicals and have toured as a rock band in over 20 cities across the United States. Eddie
the Marvelous has been developed at Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor and Theatreworks
Silicon Valley.
Major Underwriting for Eddie the Marvelous, Who Will Save the World provided by
Linda Mariani.
National Endowment for the Arts • Time Warner Foundation Inc. • The Jerome Robbins Foundation
• The Frederick Loewe Foundation, Inc. • The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation
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The National Playwrights Conference — the O’Neill’s founding program — is a laboratory, offering
resources vital to creative risk-taking. Prior to the O’Neill, unheralded and undiscovered writers
lacked the time, space, and support necessary to develop new work for the American stage. To
meet this need, founder George C. White created the National Playwrights Conference in 1964,
giving writers a safe haven to experiment during a crucial stage in a play’s evolution.
The O’Neill places each of the eight playwrights at the center of their own development process
with the support of a professional company of production staff, designers, dramaturgs, actors, and
directors. During the four-week residency, each work undergoes varying degrees of revision, two
design sessions, more than 30 hours of intensive rehearsal, and two public script-in-hand staged
readings. The remaining time in residence is self-directed — to think, to create, and to interact with
other artists.
This year’s eight plays, selected from a pool of 1,429 applicants are among nearly 700 to be
discovered and developed at the O’Neill, including some of the most significant works in American
theater. Plays such as John Guare’s House of Blue Leaves; Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women
and Others; Lee Blessing’s A Walk in the Woods; and August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,
Fences, and The Piano Lesson all began their lives here in Waterford.
wendy c. goldberg
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR • NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE
Wendy C. Goldberg is in her 14 th season as Artistic Director of the
National Playwrights Conference and also leads the National Directors
Fellowship, now in its fourth year. Under Goldberg’s tenure, the
O’Neill was awarded the 2010 Regional Tony Award and the National
Medal of Arts. Ms. Goldberg has overseen the development of more
than 100 projects for the stage, many of which have gone on to great acclaim with productions in
New York, London, and around the country.
Ms. Goldberg is an award-winning director whose credits include multiple productions at the most
esteemed theaters in the country including Arena Stage, the Guthrie, the Goodman, Denver Center,
the Alliance, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Associate Artist), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Center
Stage Baltimore, Signature Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, Philadelphia Theater Company, and off-
Broadway at Ars Nova, The Daryl Roth 2, and McGinn-Cazale. She was Creative Advisor to the
long-running Rock of Ages on Broadway and recently directed the first post-Broadway production of
Paula Vogel’s Indecent for the Guthrie Theater. Upcoming projects include a commission for Seattle
Rep in conjunction with BMG Music and writer/composer Matt Schatz that focuses on the early 90’s
Seattle music scene as well as a number of television and new media projects.
As Artistic Associate at Arena Stage for five seasons, Ms. Goldberg helped to create the theater’s
new play initiatives and led them from their inception through 2005. American Theatre magazine
has described her as “one of the most promising theater artists working today.” Other than the
theater’s founder, Zelda Fichandler, she is the youngest director to have directed for Arena Stage in
its 50-year history, making her main stage debut at the age of 26 with the revival of K2 in celebration
of the company’s 50 th anniversary.
Ms. Goldberg is a visiting faculty member at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Yale School of Drama,
and National Theater Institute. She has served on panels for the NEA and TCG, and has served as
a judge for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize as well as a guest at the Commercial Theater Institute
through the Broadway League. She has served on the Executive Board of the Stage Directors and
Choreographers Society for 12 years and was awarded a “Theatrical Standout Moment of the Year”
for the founding and leadership of the NDF Program as well as receiving a finalist award for the
Zelda Fichandler Award for a director transforming theater on the East Coast. She is an honors
graduate of the University of Michigan (BA) and holds an MFA in Directing from UCLA’s School of
Theater, Film, and Television where she received the Distinguished Alumna Award in 2014.
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national playwrights
conference staff
Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director
Meg McDonald, Production Stage Manager
David Caparelliotis, CSA, Casting Director
Debora Porazzi Assistant Stage Manager
Carolyn Mraz, Lawrence Moten, Scenic Designers
Raquel Davis, Christian DeAngelis, Brian Lilienthal, Lighting Designers
Matt Hubbs, Florian Staab, Sound Designers
Claire DeLiso, Burry Fredrick Scenic Design Fellow
Frederick Kennedy, Burry Fredrick Sound Design Fellow
Emily Grill, Assistant to the Artistic Director
2018 npc artistic council
Suzie Agins, Freelance Director
John Baker, Freelance Dramaturg
Nan Barnett, Executive Director, National New Play Network
Jed Bernstein, President, Above The Title Entertainment
Eddie Boroevich, Actor
Carrie Chapter, Freelance Dramaturg
Kimberly Colburn, Literary Director, South Coast Repertory
Madison Colquette, Freelance Dramaturg
Inda Craig-Galván, Playwright
Raquel Davis, Assistant Professor, Boise State University
Josh Epstein, Designer
Julie Felise Dubiner, Associate Director of American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Teresa Focarile, Adjunct Professor, Boise State University
Aislinn Frantz, Associate Producer, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Amy Handlesman, Story Consultant and Dramaturg
Heather Helinsky, Freelance Dramaturg
Jo Holcomb, Senior Dramaturg, Guthrie Theater
Abigail Katz, Director of New Play Development, Atlantic Theater Company
Janine Sobek Knighton, Assistant Professor and Freelance Dramaturg
Kristin Leahy, Literary Director, Seattle Repertory Theatre
Lexy Leuszler, Literary Manager, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
Linda Lombardi, Freelance Director and Dramaturg
Larissa Lury, Assistant Professor, New Mexico State University; Freelance Director
Anne G. Morgan, Literary Manager, American Shakespeare Center
Ramona Ostrowski, Associate Producer, HowlRound Theatre Commons
Martha Steketee, Freelance Dramaturg
Gregg Wiggans, Former Artistic Associate, National Playwrights Conference
Martin Damien Wilkins, 2015 National Directors Fellow
Derron Wood, Artistic Director, Flock Theatre; Master Teaching Artist for the State of Connecticut
july 5 at 8:15 pm
Directed by Wendy C. Goldberg
Dramaturged by Kristin Leahey
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley, best known for her Broadway plays Crimes
of the Heart and The Wake of Jamey Foster, comes to the O’Neill for the first time with
her new play Lightning. In a cabin high on a peak surrounded by the Blue Mountains and
sky, a young woman is visited by a traveling salesman as a storm gains strength. The play
is a theatrical and captivating story of resilience and determination in a most unforgiving
world.
july 6 & 7 at 7:15 pm
Directed by Elena Araoz
Dramturged by Catherine Rodríguez
Nearly 18 years ago, Alma, pregnant, crossed the US-Mexico border with great dreams
for the life ahead. Now it’s December 2, 2016. Alma has been having haunting
nightmares about elephants and spider webs since the election. On the eve of her
daughter Angel’s SATs, Alma comes home early to Trump’s voice blaring from the
television, but Angel isn’t at home studying. Benjamin Benne currently resides in
Minneapolis, MN, and will be pursuing an MFA in Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama
this Fall.
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july 11 & 12 at 8:15 pm
Directed by Kent Gash
Dramturged by Ignacia Delgado
A writer and a prison inmate embark on an unexpected journey through the realities
of long-term incarceration and grief, as they work together to craft a statement for his
upcoming parole hearing. LOCKDOWN was commissioned by Rattlestick Playwrights
Theater through the Toulmin Foundation and is inspired by Cori Thomas’ experiences
getting to know and working alongside a number of men currently serving life sentences
at San Quentin State Prison.
july 18 & 19 at 8:15 pm
Directed by Sammi Cannold
Dramturged by Ignacia Delgado
On the island of Man-Jae in Korea, three elderly haenyeos — “sea women” — spend
their dying days diving into the ocean to harvest seafood with nothing but rusty knives.
Endlings is a real estate lesson from the last three remaining haenyeos in the world: Don’t
Live On An Island, unless it is the island of Manhattan. Celine Song is a New York-based
playwright whose work has been developed at the Public Theater, Ars Nova, and
Playwrights Realm. Endlings was featured on the 2017 Kilroys List.
july 13 & 14 at 7:15 pm
Directed by Mark Brokaw
Dramturged by Catherine Sheehy
Ruth, a young woman with a mysterious and sheltered background, attempts to create a
new life in New York. Navigating this strange, bewildering environment, she struggles to
make her way in the city and to answer the question that drove her out into the world in the
first place: is it possible to be alive and not be alone? Enid Graham is a Tony-nominated
actress and writer based in New York City.
july 20 at 7:15 pm & july 21 at 3:15 pm
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Dramturged by Carrie Chapter
Juliet is losing her marriage. Her mother Pam is losing her memory. And there’s a
mysterious forest growing in and around their living room. A play about grief, weird
love, and what to do when there aren’t any right answers. Lia Romeo’s plays have been
produced off-Broadway at 59E59 and beyond. She has been nominated for the
prestigious Steinberg Award for Best New Play and featured by the 2016 Kilroys List.
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july 25 & 26 at 8:15 pm
Directed by Robert O’Hara
Dramturged by Aaron Malkin
The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation — in the breeze, in the cotton fields...
and in the crack of the whip. It’s an antebellum fever dream, where fear and desire entwine
in the looming shadow of the master’s house. Jeremy O. Harris is a New Haven-based
playwright whose work has been seen at Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Ars
Nova, and The New Group. Slave Play will receive its world premiere this fall at New York
Theatre Workshop.
Major Underwriting for Slave Play provided by Alva Greenberg.
sarah delappe’s debut play The Wolves (The
Playwrights Realm/NY Stage & Film/Lincoln Center Theater was a
co-winner of the Relentless Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize,
the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Yale Drama Series Prize.
Other honors include the Page One Fellowship at the Playwrights
Realm and the Sky Cooper New American Play Prize. Fellowships
and developmental support include The MacDowell Colony, The
Ground Floor, LCT3 Playwright-in-Residence, Ars Nova Play Group, Clubbed Thumb,
SPACE on Ryder Farm, and Sitka Fellows Program. She holds an MFA from Brooklyn
College.
july 27 & 28 at 7:15 pm
Directed by Giovanni Sardelli
Dramturged by Tanya Palmer
As Monica Lewinsky rehearses for a TED Talk, her PTSD sends her spinning into an
alternate universe where she’s a superhero hell-bent on rescuing a Pretty Young Coed
from a Lecherous Professor. Combining humor and fantasy, Marvel-ous Monica offers a
#MeToo look at the woman at the center of a notorious political scandal. Sarah Tuft’s
work has been seen at the Public Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre, and
Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Major Underwriting for MARVEL-OUS MONICA... provided by The Playreaders Group.
j.t. rogers’ plays include Oslo (Lincoln Center Theater, then
Broadway; National Theatre, London, then West End); Blood and
Gifts (Lincoln Center Theater; National Theatre); The Overwhelming
(National Theatre, then UK tour with Out of Joint; Roundabout
Theatre Company); White People (Off-Broadway with Starry Night
Productions); and Madagascar (Theatre 503, London; Melbourne
Theatre Company). For Oslo, he won the Tony, New York Critics,
Outer Critics, Drama Desk, Drama League, Lortel, and Obie awards. He has been twice
nominated for London’s Olivier Award, for Oslo and as co-author of The Great Game:
Afghanistan. His works have been staged throughout the United States and in Germany,
Canada, Australia, and Israel, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times,
American Theatre, The Guardian, and the New Statesman. He is a Guggenheim
fellow and has received three NYFA fellowships in playwriting. Rogers is a member of the
Dramatist Guild, where he is a founding board member of the Dramatists Legal Defense
Fund. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and holds an honorary doctorate from his
alma mater, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
support for the 2018 national
playwrights conference provided by:
The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust • The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation • Burry Fredrik
Foundation • Time Warner Foundation Inc. • National Endowment for the Arts • Connecticut Office
of the Arts • Dramatists Play Service, Inc. • Actors’ Equity Foundation
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2018 npc preliminary readers
Rachel Aberman
Rebecca Adelsheim
Aanika Allen
Shanna Allison
Aaron Alonso
Donald Alsedek
Natalie Ault
Brittany Ayers
Brey Ann Barrett
Amanda Baschnagel
Mary Beevers
Isaak Berliner
Grace Bernardo
Jed Bernstein
Brooke Bishop
Clara Blickenstaff
Haley Bond
Sasha Bratt
Daniel Brown
Torrence Browne
Darcy Bruce
Ryan Bruce
Julia Bumke
Molly Burdick
Cate Cammarata
Peggy Carey
Serena Cates
Carrie Chapter
Wei-Huan Chen
Maegan Clearwood
Kimberly Colburn
Madison Colquette
Amanda Connors
Alexandra Constas
Inda Craig-Galván
Emily Daly
Nora Daly
Elinor Mary Davies
Raquel Davis
Christian DeAngelis
Céline Delcayre
Christopher Diercksen
Nikki DiLoreto
Laurie Dowling
Julie Felise Dubiner
Charles Duggan
Alison Durkee
Estefanía Fadul
Kareem Fahmy
Liz Fentress
Alan Filderman
Amanda Finn
Molly FitzMaurice
Lucretia Anne Flammang
Haley Fluke
Aislinn Frantz
Christian Frederickson
Jeri Frederickson
Robert Frost
Marco Frucht
Lily Fryburg
Paul Gabbard
Charlotte Lily Gaspard
Nicole Gehring
Cynthia Goldberg
Helene D. Goldfarb
Tiffany Gray
Micah Greenleaf
Julia Greer
Alice Grindling
Olivia Haller
Mattie Hawkinson
Catherine Healey
Heather Helinsky
Larry Herold
Jessi Hill
Aaron Hock
Adam D. Howard
Bryan Howard
Betsy Anne Huggins
Colleen Hughes
Dan Jakes
Rachel Jett
Lydia Johnson
Sarah Johnson
Jane B. Jones
Jonathan Judge-Russo
Jungmin Kang
Maura Kanter
Alex Keegan
Emma Kimball
Danielle King
Bonnie Kramm
Laura Kressley
Portia Krieger
Alan Langdon
Chris Larkin
Colton Larsen
Kristin Leahey
Amelia Lembeck
Lexy Leuszler
Laley Lippard
Linda Lombardi
Leah Lowe
Larissa Lury
Pam McCaddin
Marina McClure
Charlie McGrath
Meghan McLeroy
Jessie Mhire
Emma Miller
Jessie Mills
Jasen Miyamoto
Gary Mok
Megan Monaghan Rivas
Ned Moore
Anne G. Morgan
Charles B. Morgan
Leora Morris
Jesse Murphy
Austin Murray
Cortland Nesley
Callie Nestleroth
Amy Northup
Nick O’Leary
Gail Obenreder O’Donnell
Evren Odcikin
D. Ohlandt
Kara Ontiveros
Eric Ort
Amelia Parenteau
Susanne Parker
Bill Partlan
Amanda Paulick
Helena Pennington
Dylan Pickus
Andy Pierce
Kevin Place
Andy Probst
Cheyenne Queen
Samip Raval
Jessica Reese
John Reinschmidt
Molly Revenson
Vanessa Reyes
Nicole Ricciardi
Amanda Kay Ritchie
Nick Roesler
Courtney Roque
Seth Roseman
Alix Rosenfeld
Emily Ruddock
Susan Russell
J. Isabel Salazar
Evan W. Saunders
Oliver Sava
Violet Saylor
Lila Schmitz
Erin Leigh Schmoyer
Keri Schultz Kent
Amanda Schumacher
Deena Selenow
Courtney Shaw
Chandler Smith
Jose Solis
Sabrina Sonner
Katie Soricelli
Karen Sours
Zachary Spicer
Veronica Sprague
Aurin Squire
Florian Staab
Steven Strauss
Brian Sutow
Annie Szeliski
Edward Torres
Nina Trotto
Michael Tucker
Sara Turner
Corey Umlauf
Marya Ursin
Leya Van Doren
Jennifer Vanasco
Nikki R. Veit
Luke Walchuk
Aleksandra Weil
Bryn Weiler
Calan Welder
Alyssa White
Preston Whiteway
Gemma Wilson
Samuel Yates
Shara Ashley Zeiger
Jenna Zhu
Meredith Zotkiewicz
monte cristo cottage
The O’Neill owns and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage, boyhood summer home of
Eugene O’Neill and setting for his plays Ah, Wilderness! and Long Day’s Journey Into
Night. The museum is a registered National Historic Landmark and is open to the public
during the summer season.
hours, contact, & admission
Open seasonally June through August.
Thursday - Sunday, 12-4pm, or by appointment.
General Admission: $10; Students and Seniors: $5; Members: free of charge.
For more information, call (860) 443-5378, or visit www.theoneill.org/mcc.
support for the
monte cristo
cottage
provided by:
The Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation
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2018 tony award nominees
Best Revival of a Play
Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh
2018 pulitzer prize winner
Drama
Martyna Majok (NPC ‘17), Cost of Living
2018 drama desk nominees
Outstanding Play
Joshua Harmon (NPC ‘13), Admissions
Jocelyn Bioh (NPC ‘11), School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
Outstanding Actor in a Play
Paul Sparks (NPC ‘08), At Home at the Zoo
Outstanding Actress in a Musical
Daphne Rubin-Vega (NPC ‘02), Miss You Like Hell
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
Nathan Lane (MCA ‘15), Angels in America
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
Alexander Gemignani (NMTC Artistic Director), Carousel
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play
Jocelyn Bioh (NPC ‘11), In The Blood
Deirdre O’Connell (NPC ‘04), Fulfillment Center
Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical
Lindsay Mendez (NMTC ‘11), Carousel
Outstanding Lyrics
Quiara Alegría Hudes (NMTC ‘05, NPC ‘11), Miss You Like Hell
Outstanding Orchestrations
Tom Kitt (NMTC ‘04, ‘08, ‘17), Spongebob Squarepants: The Broadway Musical
Annmarie Milazzo (NMTC ‘17) & Michael Starobin (NMTC ‘13-’17), Once On This Island
Jonathan Tunick (NMTC ‘85), Carousel and Pacific Overtures
Best Original Score
Kristen Anderson-Lopez (NMTC ‘08) and Robert Lopez (NMTC ‘02), Frozen
Best Performance by Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Nathan Lane (MCA ‘15), Angels in America
Best Performance by Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Alexander Gemignani (NMTC Artistic Director), Carousel
Ari’el Stachel (NMTC ‘15), The Band’s Visit
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Lindsay Mendez (NMTC ‘11), Carousel
Best Scenic Design of a Play
Ian MacNeil (NTI Spring ‘79), Angels in America
Best Direction of a Play
George C. Wolfe (MCA ‘16), The Iceman Cometh
Best Orchestrations
Tom Kitt (NMTC ‘04, ‘08, ‘17), SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
Annmarie Milazzo (NMTC ‘17) & Michael Starobin (NMTC ‘13-’17), Once On This Island
Jonathan Tunick (NMTC ‘85), Carousel
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Eugene O’Neill
Theater Center
for your ongoing
support of the
American Stage.
2018 obie award winners
Playwriting
Dominique Morriseau (NPC ‘10), Pipeline
Directing
Jesse Berger (NPC ‘07, ‘08), The Government Inspector
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Established in 1968, the National Critics Institute is the nation’s premier “boot camp” for arts
writers. A two-week summer intensive, NCI is a convening for arts journalists, bloggers, reporters,
social-media gurus, and critics looking to strengthen their skills in the increasingly competitive
and fast-paced arts and entertainment industry. The workshop makes unique use of the creative
professionals working at the O’Neill to help writers gain insight into specialized areas of the arts,
to understand arts journalism from all sides, observe first-hand the play development process, and
strengthen their understanding of theater and their ability to critique it.
The program includes writing workshops in the crafts of reviewing theater, film, performance,
and food; workshops in storytelling and analysis; insights into the critical process with a faculty
composed of America’s leading arts critics; explorations of the relationship of critics with social
media; and studies of best practices in blogging and other online mediums.
chris jones
DIRECTOR • NATIONAL CRITICS INSTITUTE
Dr. Chris Jones, the chief theater critic and a Sunday cultural
columnist of the Chicago Tribune, has reviewed and commented on
culture, the arts, politics, and entertainment for the Chicago Tribune
for more than 16 years. He also appears weekly on CBS-2 news in
Chicago, and on the Tribune’s WGN Radio. Before joining the staff of
the Tribune a decade ago, Dr. Jones wrote for many years for Variety and Daily Variety, publishing
several hundred reviews and commentaries, especially of pre-Broadway tryouts. He also spent a
short time as Variety’s Broadway critic. He has twice served on the drama committee of the Pulitzer
Prizes. His arts criticism also has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the
Washington Post, American Theatre magazine, and many other newspapers and magazines. He
has taught criticism, arts writing, and cultural reporting in several universities. He’s the author of a
new history of theater criticism in Chicago, Bigger, Brighter, Louder. In 2015, he was awarded the
George G. Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
mark j. charney
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR • NATIONAL CRITICS INSTITUTE
Mark Charney served as Director of Theatre for the Department of Performing Arts at Clemson
University for many years before retiring as a Professor Emeritus and accepting the role of Chair
of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University. A past Chair for Region IV, a past member of the
National Selection Team, and currently the National Coordinator of Institute for Theatre Journalism
and Advocacy/Dramaturgy for KCACTF and Focus Group Leader for Playwrights and Creative
Teams for ATHE. His play, The Power Behind the Palette, won the David Mark Cohen Award.
His chapter on “The Entertainment Marketplace from 2000-2014” was published in Screenwriting
by Rutgers Press. His play, Shooting Blanks, was performed at the Prague International Festival.
Mark was an invited guest to the Actors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Los Angeles, where
he received an award and was an honorary inductee for his work in criticism and dramaturgy
nationwide. He has attended the Playwriting Institute at the American University of Sharjah First
International Theatre Festival near Dubai and served as Artistic Director of the International
Cultural Festival of Schools from Southeast Asia in Kuala Lumpur.
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2018 nci fellows
Alex Barasch
Yan Chen
Jennifer Dorn
Rosalind Early
Maggie Gilroy
Constance Grady
Naveed Kumar
Ashley Lee
Soraya McDonald
Billy McEntee
Daniel Perks
Jeremy Reynolds
Matthew Wexler
Lauren Whalen
faculty
Ben Brantley, New York Times
Mark Blankenship, AKA_NYC
Scott Heller, New York Times
Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post
Peter Marks, Washington Post
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Sam Sifton, New York Times
Jennifer Vanasco, WNYC
scholarships
Formed in 1949 by a group of New York theater critics, editors, and reporters, the Drama Desk
Scholarship promotes and supports artistic excellence. Drama Desk provides a full NCI scholarship.
Clara Hieronymus of The Nashville Tennessean was that city’s leading theater and arts critic for
almost fifty years. The Clara Hieronymus Scholarship — a full NCI scholarship — was established
on Clara’s retirement in 1990 by the Tennessee Performing Arts Center.
THE O’NEILL:
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BY JEFFREY SWEET
Yale University Press
A lavishly illustrated celebration of the
fifty-year history of the most influential
theatrical organization in America.
Founded at the 1974 NCI, the American Theatre Critics Association is the only national association
of professional theater critics. Members work for newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and online
services across the United States. ATCA provides a full NCI scholarship.
The Theatre Communications Group’s Rising Leaders of Color addresses the lack of diversity
in the critical talent pool and creates new opportunities to nurture arts journalists to reflect the
increasingly diverse work on US stages. TCG provides a full NCI scholarship.
support for the 2018 national critics
institute provided by:
Reva & David Logan Foundation
Foundation of the American Theatre Critics Association • Theatre Communications Group •
Drama Desk • Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
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The Cabaret & Performance Conference provides a dynamic opportunity for performers to work on new
performances and projects, mentored by professional directors, music directors, and guest artists while
reexamining, redefining, and revitalizing the cabaret art form for the 21 st century. During an intense
two-week period, the Conference provides hands-on artistic guidance and instruction to a select group
of performers featuring some of the top names in the theater.
The Conference has presented more than 80 performances in past years, including Broadway and
cabaret favorites Betty Buckley, Academy Award-winner Shirley Jones, 10-time Tony Award-winner
Tommy Tune, Judy Kuhn, Donna McKechnie, Leslie Uggams, Barb Jungr, Wesla Whitfield, Mike Greensill,
Penny Fuller, Rita Gardner, Andre DeShields, Norm Lewis, Melissa Manchester, and many more.
john mcdaniel
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR • CABARET & PERFORMANCE CONFERENCE
John McDaniel is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning music director,
composer, arranger, orchestrator, and theatrical and record producer.
Broadway music direction credits include: Bonnie & Clyde (Drama
Desk Nomination, Best Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn
(Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun, Taboo, Chicago,
Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway, and Company — the Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center.
Television credits include: The Rosie O’Donnell Show (Two Emmy Awards), Friar’s Roasts ’99-’02,
Tony Awards ’97-’00 (Arranger), A Rosie Christmas (ABC), A Family is a Family (HBO). Recordings
as producer: Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award), The Maury Yeston Songbook, Bonnie & Clyde,
Brooklyn, Taboo, The Journey Home (Malcolm Gets), and John McDaniel at the Piano (Broadway,
Christmas, Compositions, and Live at Joe’s Pub). Recent: composer of Brave New World, the musical
(NC Stages). John has enjoyed collaborations with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Al
Jarreau, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett, Frederica von Stade, Betty Buckley, and most recently Bette Midler.
He has been a guest conductor at many symphony orchestras, including San Francisco, Indianapolis,
Utah, Buffalo, Colorado, Baltimore, and in his hometown at the St. Louis Symphony. He holds a Drama
BFA from Carnegie Mellon.
cabaret & performance
conference staff
John McDaniel, Artistic Director
Brad Simmons, Artistic Associate/Junior Fellows Program Director
Barb Jungr & Lennie Watts, Master Artists, Fellows Program
Michael Holland, Tracy Stark, Jon Weber, Music Directors
Madison DeCoske, Production Stage Manager
Nik Nemec, Assistant Stage Manager
Alex Jainchill, Lighting Designer
Joshua D. Reid, Sound Designer
support for the 2018 cabaret &
performance conference provided by:
New London Education Foundation/Karl Kelly Memorial Scholarship Fund • Steinway Piano Gallery
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august 1 at 8 pm
This variety show opening night performance is free to the public — come one, come all to get a
preview of the the next nine nights!
august 7 at 8 pm
Multi-award-winning Broadway actresses offer their adventures in songs and stories from the Golden
Age of Broadway, having worked with such giants as Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers!
Directed by Barry Kleinbort.
august 2 at 8 pm
Tonya and Brad are together again after wowing crowds at Joe’s Pub in NYC. Tony, Drama Desk, and
Obie Award-winning Tonya Pinkins is known to theater, film, and television audiences everywhere and
she pairs this summer with O’Neill favorite Brad Simmons for an eclectic evening of song.
august 8 at 8 pm
The Junior Fellows — Zander Baas, Emma Cenholt-Haulund, Chris Gregor, Kellan Harrod, Chloe
Kolbenheyer, Makayla O’Connor, Nina Pezzello, Allegra Rosa, Rosemary Rossi, and Spencer Stanley
— kick up the dirt showcasing the music of Springsteen, Mellencamp, Aerosmith, and more, featuring
a live band all under the direction of Brad Simmons.
august 3 at 8 pm
2017 Drama Desk-winner for Solo Performance, Ed Dixon, recreates his stunning and delightful one
man show, recounting his 20-year friendship with the incomparable George Rose.
august 9 at 8 pm
Join us for an evening of songs and stories from these emerging cabaret performers: Nakeisha
Daniel, Sarah Krauss, Madisyn Mugavero, Zachary Riopelle, Derek Staranowski, and Elizabeth Woolf.
august 4 at 8 pm
Rebecca Parris is a Grammy-nominated American jazz vocalist who has appeared with Count Basie,
Buddy Rich, Wynton Marsalis, and Dizzy Gillespie. She is bound to thrill us with a fine collection of
songs, accompanied by the one and only Mike Renzi on piano.
august 10 at 8 pm
Cabaret great and MAC Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Sharon McNight tips her hat to some of
the great female singers and comedians who are no longer with us, but whose names and music live
on — Betty, Sophie, Ethel, Patsy, Judy, and more. Ian Herman accompanies on the piano.
august 5 at 8 pm
august 11 at 8 pm
Join Barb and John as they present their latest collection of music, celebrating the release of their
This cavalcade of performers — and a few surprises — is a sell-out every year, and promises to be a
brand new recording.
fantastic show to wrap the season!
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In its fourth year, the O’Neill, along with the Kennedy Center, National New Play Network (NNPN),
and Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation (SDCF), has chosen five fellows for the National
Directors Fellowship (NDF), a five-year, joint initiative that will accelerate the professional experience
of 25 directors and propel the advancement of new plays.
Led by director Wendy C. Goldberg, the program offers wide-ranging professional development
opportunities and unmatched practical experience. It connects early career directors to a vast network
of writers, expands access to professional support services, and provides environments for observation
and experimentation.
Employing the signature “O’Neill Process,” the Young Playwrights Festival provides professional-level
support to develop original one-act plays written by middle and high school students. With this approach,
the young playwrights hone their work, furthering it from the initial isolation of writing to the collaborative
process involved in making their script into a living, breathing play. Students receive a rigorous exploration
of their work guided by professional artists — alumni from the National Theater Institute — as well as a
script-in-hand public reading of their new play.
Led by Sophia Chapadjiev, Director of Education, the 13 th Annual Young Playwrights Festival took place
May 11-13, 2018 and featured five plays selected from 208 nationwide entries.
The 15-month training cycle involves hundreds of theater professionals, including nationally recognized
guest mentors and faculty. Fellows attend and participate in the O’Neill’s National Playwrights
Conference, the Kennedy Center’s NNPN MFA Playwrights Workshop, and NNPN’s National Showcase
of New Plays. After nearly a year of workshops and professional development symposiums, training,
and observation, Fellows embark on a NNPN Directing Residency to direct a full new production. This
offers an unmatched opportunity to lead and fortify the advancement of NDF fellows and new play
production around the country.
2018 ndf fellows
Arpita Mukherjee
Tatiana Pandiani
Mei Ann Teo
Hannah Wolf
Jenna Worsham
support for the national directors
fellowship provided by:
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation • David Auburn • James Bundy • Blake Robison, Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park • Doug Hughes • Thomas Kail • Jack Tantlefff and Kevin Crosby, Paradigm
Agency • Todd Haimes, Roundabout Theatre Company • Daryl Roth • Jordan Roth, Jujamcyn
Theatricals • Molly Smith • Paula Vogel • Martin Wilkins
Additionally, 16 finalists were selected to participate in the Guest Playwright Observation Program —
attending workshops, observing the rehearsal process of the five selected plays, and receiving cold
readings of their own plays. 2018 finalists include Sierra Blanco, Ben Connor, Maya Desai, Anslie
Dybala, Ashley Fischer, Clara Gerrish, Lili Kane, Jonah Kehew, Patrick Kirwin, Abigail Klein, Jessalyn
Krenicki, Jenna Lane, Luke Meti, Jemmie Piersol-Freedman, Holly Richmond, and Aiden Rodgers.
2018 young playwrights
Unseen by Madelyn Beaudoin; Old Saybrook Middle School, CT
Infallia by Jordan Bordner; Waterford High School, CT
Schrödinger’s Wife by Maurielle Mcgarvey; High School for Performing & Visual Arts, TX
How to Make a Women’s Advocate by Taylor Roy; Clark Lane Middle School, CT
Places To Go, People to Be by Jesse Zieminski; Fitch High School, CT
support for the 2018 young playwrights
festival provided by:
Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation • Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut •
Connecticut Automotive Retailers Association/GHADA • Waterford Education Foundation
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Since our founding in 1964, dozens of generous donors have sustained
the O’Neill through bequests and other estate gifts. Such support has
allowed us to provide a world-renowned haven for new work and new
artists. Future estate gifts are critical to preserving the O’Neill as the
launchpad of the American theater for generations to come.
The 1964 Society is an honored group of O’Neill founders, artists,
supporters, and friends whose commitments to the O’Neill will extend
beyond their lifetimes. Supporters who have made provisions for the
O’Neill in their estate plans are eligible to join The 1964 Society. Such
provisions may include a gift through your will, trust, life insurance,
or retirement assets. Membership involves no dues, obligations, or
solicitations, but allows us to thank and recognize future supporters, while
inspiring generosity in others.
To discuss ways that you can help the O’Neill and future artists,
please contact the Development Office at (860) 443-5378
or at development@theoneill.org.
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11-acres, 19 th -century mansions, cottages, and barns dot the historic
property which opens up to a rolling lawn with panoramic views of
the Long Island Sound. Massive Copper Beech trees, a lighthouseinspired
cottage, and a white gazebo add to the New England charm,
making it the perfect venue to host your wedding.
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o’neill internships &
fellowships
O’Neill internships are an integral component of our summer season, where young artists are exposed
daily to the professionals immersed in the development of new works and to special workshops, speakers,
and activities. Not only are O’Neill interns a force behind the production of each performance but they
are a company of performers, writers, directors, and technicians for their own creative ventures. During
the summer, we also welcome young theater artists sponsored by the Kennedy Center American College
Theater Festival (KCACTF) to join our company as KCACTF Fellows in many disciplines. The O’Neill also
offers year-long apprenticeships from September through August and semester-long internships.
For more information, contact jobs@theoneill.org.
2018 interns & fellows
Rachel Ackerman
Katie Ciszek*
Olivia Coe
Raffaella Donatich
Jason Driver*
Emily Fluchel
Shane Horsman
Megan Johnson*
Mariah Kennedy
Brandi Lavigne*
Owen Meadows
Zak Metalsky
Maia Mulcahy
Mitchell Nease
Isabel Olson
Dara Pohl Feldman
Vanessa Ramon
Meghan Reed*
Peter Rhodin
Zoe Rosenfeld
Caleb Siler
Bryan Sng
Zoe Speer
Elizabeth Tofig
Caroline Uy
Eliza Wilkins
commercial theater
institute
*KCACTF Fellow
The Commercial Theater Institute, now in its 37 th year, is a project of the Theatre Development
Fund and The Broadway League. Dedicated to training the next generation of commercial theater
producers, CTI provides resources and guidance to individuals interested in the various paths one can
take towards creating commercial productions for the stage.
CTI-O’Neill is a three-day, hands-on, intensive program in which pairs of participants will develop
business plans for each of the plays and musicals selected for the O’Neill’s National Playwrights
Conference and National Music Theater Conference. The experience will be a mixture of lectures,
one-on-one sessions, conversations with writers and directors, and group discussion. The curriculum
and setting provide a unique opportunity to interact with artists and understand the process of creative
development.
CTI-O’Neill is led by Tom Viertel, O’Neill Board Chairman and a Broadway producer, along with an
all-star faculty from the New York theater community.
For more information about the Commercial Theater Institute, email theaterlives@theoneill.org or
visit www.theoneill.org/residencies.
supporters, donors, & members
The following list includes contributions made between June 1, 2017, and May 31, 2018. Please let us know of
any errors so we may correct our records by emailing development@theoneill.org.
foundations,
institutions,
& government
Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation
The Hispanic Federation
John Logan Foundation
The National Endowment for the Arts
Reva & David Logan Foundation
The Shubert Foundation
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable
Trust
Burry Fredrik Foundation
Connecticut DECD Office of the Arts
Time Warner Foundation
Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation
The Connecticut Trust for Historic
Preservation
The Geraldine Stutz Trust, Inc.
The Jane Henson Foundation
The Jerome Robbins Foundation
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Town of Waterford
Chelsea Groton Foundation
Child & Family Agency of SETC
Community Foundation of Eastern CT
ETC: Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc.
The Frederick Loewe Foundation, Inc.
Nan H. Altmayer Charitable Trust
Actors’ Equity Foundation
The Arts Federation
Bodenwein Public Benevolent
Foundation
CT Automotive Retailers Association
(GHADA Foundation)
Dramatist Guild Fund
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation
Ettinger Foundation
Foundation of the American Theatre
Critics Association
Howard Gilman Foundation
The Jim Henson Foundation
The Joseph C. and Esther Foster
Foundation
New London Education Foundation/
Karl Kelly Fund
The Rodgers and Hammerstein
Foundation
Todd Wagner Foundation
Waterford Education Foundation
individual
donors
ANGELS
Anonymous (2)
James & Patricia Calhoun
Ron Cowen & Dan Lipman
Pat Daily & Tom Viertel
Steve & Debra Daren
Michael Douglas
& Catherine Zeta-Jones
David Frederick & Sophia Lynn
Lynn Fusco
John Gore
Alva Greenberg
Carolyn Greenspan & Marshall Ruben
Stephen & Ruth Hendel
Jeffrey & Nancy Hoffman
Sander Jacobs
Cecelia & Seward Johnson
Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Wendy MacDonald
Lynnette & Kevin McCollum
Lin-Manuel Miranda & Vanessa Nadal
Chip Meyrelles & Laurie Connor
Marc & Julie Platt
Annella Preble
Nancy Rose & John Kimelman
Bernie Schilberg
Jeffrey Seller
Sally Speer
George & Betsy White
Matthew Winkler
Len & Robyn Wolman
BENEFACTORS
Dennis Adler & David Gevurtz
Jeff & Jill Aiosa
Vincent Capece
Roger Christiansen
Jason Crosby
Kenneth Dougherty
Jill Furman
Myrna & Stephen Greenberg
Cheryl Henson
Jonathan & Doreen Joslow
Thomas Kail
Herb Kohler & Natalie Black
Alex Lacamoire
Dorita & Ted Lieberman
Tom & Michelle Marra
Joseph Mele
Stephen & Margery Morris
Lida Orzeck & Susan Miller
Frank Ribas & David Lewis
Ian Richman
James & Sally Ritchie
Kay & John Shaw
Peter & Anne Thomas
Caleb White
SPONSORS
Anonymous
Pam Akins & Barry Levinson
Seth Alvord
David Auburn
Jim Barra
Joseph Benincasa
Maurizio Borletti
Jean Burgdorff & Barb Keller
Anne Calanquin
Mona & Brian Carey
John Coffin IV
Mitchell & Lori Corah
Carol Creel
Kim Curtin
David Dangremond
Kurt Deutsch
Elizabeth Dewberry
Victoria Dillingham
Robert & Nancy Downey
Kathryn Dupree & Joseph Marafito
Jenifer Endicott Emley
Wendy Federman
Jack & Gail Feinberg
Mark & Lynn Filipski
Angelina Fiordellisi
Patricia Fischer
Jennifer Friedland
William Gahagan
Cathy Glaser & Steve Semlitz
Jeff Glat
Sharon & Allan Goldfarb
Andy & Nancy Grant
Sheldon Harnick
Catherine Gropper
Todd Haimes
Theodore Hartley
Jon & Hilary Hendel
Myron & Rita Hendel
Brian R. Hoesterey
Doug Hughes
Peter Kempner
Vanessa Kerzner
Susan Lackmann
Dan Lauria
Peter & Joan Levinson
Judith Light
Bernard Lumpkin & Carmine Boccuzzi
Linda & Reid MacCluggage
Linda Mariani
Catherine Marich
Thomas & Jane Matyas
Mary & Francis Mayeda
Neil & Machiko Mazzella
James & Jane McDaniel
Brady McDonald
Steven & Marianne Mills
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supporters, donors, & members
supporters, donors, & members
Larry Morgenthal
Jennifer Murphy
Assaad & Leslie Nasr
Douglas Nevin
Thomas B. Nusz
Chris Pennington & Jeff Kazin
David Preka
Michael & Jo-Ann Price
Michael Rauh
Scott & Betsy Richards
Gregory & Dana Rogers
Daryl Roth
Charles & Deborah Royce
Maria Elvira Salgar
Megan Savage
Cheryl & Elwin Schwartz
Amy Segal
Aaron Siegel
Fred Sloan
Ellona Spear
James Stern
Janilyn Taylor
Edward Thomas
David & Pamela Thompson
Elise Thoron
Edward Trach
Betty Ventry
Mark Weinstein
Roger & Barbara Whiteway
Barbara Whitman
PATRONS
Jim Anderson
Chris Aroh
Bradley & Bonnie Baran
Gail Barley & Stephen Wood
Robert Bennett
William Bishop
Nancy Bulkeley & Kristine Halleck
Wayne Burdick
Wendy Bury
Holly Cheeseman
Jim Calhoun
Matthew Connolly
Kevin Crosby
Patricia Crown
Peter Dixon
Patrick & Lauren Doherty
Will Dunne
Devlin Elliott
Anthony Enders
Edward Erhardt
Robert Fleri
Allan Dodds Frank & Lillian King
Ronald & Jean Giannamore
A.E.O. Goldman
Tara Grabel
Brian Hashimoto
Paulette Haupt
Johnny K. Hennelly
Gary Iott
Glenn Jacobs
Eric Janney
Traug Keller
Bonnie & Mark Kramm
Garreth Lake
Judith Leary
Jay Levin
Andrew Lippa
David Martirano
Craig & Carol Melin
Nancy Mette & Barnet Kellman
Jerome & Rosylyn Meyer
Deirdre Miller
Biddle & Joann Morris
Richard Muncrief
Stephen Oremus
Francis Pavetti
Edward Perry
Kristin Pezzolesi
Charles & Romana Primus
Harold Prince
John & Lee Pritchard
Tracee Reiser
Amanda Kay Ritchie
Mary Satti
Kate & Arnold Schmeidler
Michael Sinder
Peg Snow-Madura & Donald Madura
John & Frances Steffian
Janet Steinmayer
Jessica Toltzis
Heather Toyen
Jack & Linda Viertel
Maury Yeston
SUPPORTING CAST
Anonymous (2)
Albert Barry Adams
Janet Adeletti
Sultan Ahamed
Adele Ahronheim
Susan Allgeier
Aaron Alonso
Chinita L. Anderson
Chandra Aquilina
Jeffrey & Tara Autrey
Tim Baas
Susanne Badgett
Tina Ball
William P. Barrack
Frederick & Kathleen Barrett
Sharon Barrett
Debbie Beal
James & Terese Beauchamp
Barbara Bellman
Norman & Sally Bender
Ali Bennett
Susan Benzyk
Laurie Bernhard
Mel Berning
Abigail Enez Birkett
Jeremy Bobb
Paul Bocciarelli
Charlie Brady
Rob & Patricia J. Brewer
Adam Brilliant
David & Diane Brown
Will Brumley
Joan & Lyle Brundage
Michael Burke & Lynn Kennedy
Timothy Burke
Hanna Burnett
Donald Butchko
Oliver Butler
Mark J. Charney
Kate Clark
Molly Clifford
Michelle Roden Conway
Ruth Coppersmith
Caitlin Correll
Emmet & Peggie Cosgrove
Austin Costello
Tyler Cox
Audrey Daigneault
Sean Daniels
Mike Davis
Mark Day
Kirk Deberry & Bonnie Presto-Deberry
Suzanne Delle
Lawrence Devine
Thomas DiMarco
Kate DiMarco-Ruck
Christopher Dimond
Sarah Dolan
Kerry Doyle
Joan Dreger
Syma Ebbin & Michael Kane
Cathy & Jim Elliott
Sonia Evers
Annie Fang
Brenda Faverio
Ira & Andrea Feinberg
Lucretia Anne Flammang
Thomas Fogarty
Leilah Franklin
Franklin & Joanne Friedman
Joshua Friedman
Libby Friedman
Julie & David Fryburg
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WRITER
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Susanne Badgett
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Barbara Bellman
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Susan Riley
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Phil Roberts
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Randee Smith
Saul & Esther Spigel
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Eric Butler
Elsa Cantor
Mary Beth Carta
Susan Clapp
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Elizabeth Coviello
Brian Cowel
Audrey Daigneault
Anita Darling
Robert Dowling
Caroline Driscoll
Kristen Earls & John Miscione
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Susan Ferguson
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Mary Fliri
Julie & David Fryburg
Don Gibson
Jon Goldman
Maddy Greif
Kayla Hedman
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Frances Hoffman
Beth Hogan
Donald Hooker
Mark & Jill Johnson
Susan Kelly
Susan Kenyon
Dana Kline
David Knapp
James Kropa
Robert L. Labrie Jr.
Rebecca Laird
Armand Lambert
Elyse Landesberg
Dianne Legg
Jennifer Ligeti
Janet Marolda
Jesse F. McAnally
Bud & Gail McDowell
Jane McEneaney
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Celeste Milukas
Mary Monroe
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Judith Nutkis
Constance O’Brien
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Lori Robishaw
Robert Rodner
Moira Ross
Brenna Ross
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Martin & Rona Rutchik
Karen Samide
Leila Shepard
Patricia Shippee
Bert Silverberg
Chris & Kathy Sinnett
Phillip Smith
Stephen & Diane Smith
Helen Tenney Smith
Chuck Still
Keith Turner
Lauren Turner
Harriet Tolson
Sherry Turner
Lissa Van Dyke
Leah McDonald Van Ness
Julie Wainscott & Jeffry Shrallow
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Puppetry Musicals Plays Cabaret Theatermakers
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The Family
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8 PM
Theatermakers
7 PM FREE
Theatermakers
7 PM FREE
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Theatermakers
7 PM FREE
JUNE
Puppetry
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7 PM
15
Puppetry
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7 PM
The Family
Resemblance
7 PM
16
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The Family
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8 PM
Teeth
8 PM
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8:15 PM
The Family
Resemblance
7 PM
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Teeth
7 PM
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Theatermakers
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Theatermakers
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Eddie the
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8 PM
Lockdown
8:15 PM
Endlings
8:15 PM
15 16 17 18
Opening
Ceremony
8 PM FREE
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MIC
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Teeth
7 PM
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Ruth
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Eddie the
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7 PM
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7:15 PM
Ruth
7:15 PM
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Theatermakers
7 PM FREE
Slave Play
8:15 PM
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Junior Fellows
8 PM
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PUB OPEN MIC
7 8
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Tonya Pinkins &
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Fellows
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The Forest
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The Forest
3:15 PM
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30
6 PM
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Marvel-ous
Monica
7:15 PM
Marvel-ous
Monica
7:15 PM
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Ed Dixon in
“Georgie”
8 PM
Rececca Parris
8 PM
2
PUB OPEN MIC
3
PUB OPEN MIC
4
Sharon McNight
8 PM
#ONeillSummer
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Finale
8 PM
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9
MIC
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