Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Announces 2018 Summer Season
By: Stephi Wild Apr. 17, 2018
The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center announced today the 2018 summer season of plays, musicals, and other works in development at the National Puppetry Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Playwrights Conference, and Cabaret & Performance Conference.
"This summer, the O'Neill's campus in Waterford, CT, will once again launch exciting new plays, musicals, puppetry, and cabaret, and I'm delighted to welcome audiences from around the world to experience these vital new works." O'Neill Executive Director Preston Whiteway continues "The O'Neill is a magical place, especially so in the summer, and I am grateful to each of our Artistic Directors for their bold vision in selecting these pieces and artists that will impact the field for decades to come."
National Puppetry Conference
Pam Arciero, Artistic Director
Performances: June 15 & June 16
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The National Puppetry Conference welcomes artists from around the globe to explore the range and power of the puppet, with rehearsals and workshops in puppet and mechanism building, writing, music, marionettes, and more. Artists leading Conference intensives this summer include: Dr. Melissa Dunphy, Phillip Huber, Martin Kettling, Jim Kroupa, Jane Martineau, Martin P. Robinson, Jim Rose, Richard Termine, and Derron Wood, Guest artists include Yael Rasooly and Iliya Magalnyk (The Puppeteer, the Object, and the Secret In Between), Ronnie Burkett (a workshop designed to break the fourth wall entitled CRAVE), and Michael Paul Ziegfeld (Your Voice in Comedy Writing: Comedic Structure & Character Development). The Conference concludes with two public performances featuring an extraordinary mix of devised work from throughout the Puppetry Conference, featuring guest artists, artists-in-residence, and a vast array of performance styles.
National Music Theater Conference
Alexander Gemignani, Artistic Director
Readings: June 23 - July 13
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Since its founding in 1978, the National Music Theater Conference has developed more than 120 new musicals, including early works of award-winning writers and composers such as Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tom Kitt, Andrew Lippa, Tan Dun, Robert Lopez, Duncan Sheik, Kirsten Childs, Adam Gwon, Steven Sater, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Maury Yeston, and Jeanine Tesori. 2018 is the inaugural season of Artistic Director Alexander Gemignani. Selected from 287 submissions, the following three new musicals will be developed:
The Family Resemblance Book, Lyrics, & Music by Masi Asare Teeth Book & Lyrics by Michael R. Jackson Book & Music by Anna K. Jacobs
Eddie the Marvelous, Who Will Save the World Book, Music, & Lyrics by Kate Kilbane & Dan Moses
National Playwrights Conference
Wendy C. Goldberg, Artistic Director
Readings: July 5-28
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The O'Neill's founding program will present eight new works this summer season by a broad mix of brand new, mid-career, and established writers. Each play will undergo the O'Neill's signature development process, employing professional creative and support staff, including acclaimed directors, dramaturgs, actors, and designers to bring new plays to life. All eight plays to be workshopped were chosen from 1,429 plays received through the O'Neill's open submissions process. Sarah DeLappe (The Wolves) and J. T. Rogers (Oslo) join as writers-in-residence.
Beth Henley - Lightning
Benjamin Benne - #nowall
Cori Thomas - Lockdown
Enid Graham - Ruth
Celine Song - Endlings
Lia Romeo - The Forest
Jeremy O. Harris - Slave Play
Sarah Tuft - Marvel-ous Monica; In Which Monica Lewinsky Is a Superhero Hell-Bent On Revenge
Cabaret & Performance Conference
John McDaniel, Artistic Director
Performances: August 1-11
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The conference brings some of the biggest names in Cabaret Theater to perform at the O'Neill each summer, providing valuable development and performance training for select Cabaret Fellows (up-and-coming performers on the cabaret scene) as well as middle and high school students through the Junior Fellows program. Applications for the Fellows Program are accepted through April 24. Headliners for 2018 include:
Tonya Pinkins & Brad Simmons Ed Dixon in Georgie Rebecca Parris Float Like A Butterfly: the Songs of Sting - Barb Jungr & John McDaniel Sin Twisters, Too! - Anita Gillette & Penny Fuller Gone, But Not Forgotten - Sharon McNight
National Theater Institute - Theatermakers
Rachel Jett, Artistic Director
FREE Performances: Mondays, June 18 - July 23
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One of six programs from the O'Neill's flagship educational program the National Theater Institute. Theatermakers Summer Intensive trains students in a credit-earning curriculum of acting, directing, and playwriting alongside the O'Neill's professional artists. Join us each week as students share their works-in-progress with the public.
National Critics Institute
Chris Jones, Director
July 1-15
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Chris Jones, critic and columnist at the Chicago Tribune, helms America's only boot camp for arts writers. NCI is a two-week residential workshop and conference, designed for arts writers and critics looking to strengthen their skills in an increasingly competitive and fast-paced industry. Past faculty members include: Mark Blankenship, Ben Brantley, Sarah Kaufman, Peter Marks, Michael Phillips, Tejal Rao, and Dan Sullivan. Applications for NCI are accepted through April 23.
The O'Neill Box Office opens to the public June 6. Advance ticket sales are available to O'Neill members May 16. For more information, visit www.theoneill.org or call 860-443-5378.
Funding for the summer season provided by: The Shubert Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The Reva and David Logan Foundation, Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Burry Fredrik Foundation, Time Warner Foundation, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation, The Jane Henson Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, The Frederick Loewe Foundation, Inc, The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation, Dramatist Play Service, Foundation of the American Theatre Critics Association, The Joseph C. and Esther Foster Foundation, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, Actors' Equity Foundation, BMI, Inc., New London Education Foundation/Karl Kelly Fund, Dime Bank Foundation, and O'Neill donors.
The O'Neill is the country's preeminent organization dedicated to the development of new works and new voices for the American theater. Founded in 1964, and named in honor of Eugene O'Neill, four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner and America's only playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Launchpad of the American theater, the O'Neill has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and thousands more emerging artists. Scores of projects developed at the O'Neill have gone on to full production at theaters around the world. O'Neill programs include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Critics Institute, National Puppetry Conference, Cabaret & Performance Conference, National Directors Fellowship, and National Theater Institute - which offers six credit-earning undergraduate training programs. In addition, the O'Neill owns and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage as a museum open to the public. The O'Neill is the recipient of two Tony Awards and National Medal of Arts. www.theoneill.org.
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