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The O'Neill Studio is a project of
Playwrights Theater of New York.
We are an independent professional Studio that has partnered with New
York University and Yale University since 1998.
In
its first decade, O'Neill's plays inspired new work by Yale
student and alumni playwrights. In that time, Yale alumni actors and
celebrated guest
artists have performed the O'Neill plays and the new work they
have inspired. These performances have taken place at the NYU
Provincetown
Playhouse as part of our O'Neill Festival, in which we have staged
O'Neill's first 17 works as part of a chronological series of his
complete canon, 50 plays in all.
NY Times Coverage from our most recent Festival
In its second decade, we are
focusing on
strengthen the work of our acting company through a emphasis on
the unique art of acting O'Neill.
Eugene
O'Neill is America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright and winner of
four Pulitzer Prizes. He is our premier American playwright. The
O'Neill Studio
seeks to cultivate a vocabulary for the challenges of acting in his
plays as put forth in The Studio's Artistic Statement).
These challenges are the focus
of The O'Neill Studio Forum for which Resident Artists
are engaged to perform excerpts from his works for guest masters
so as to generate relevent discussion. The Forums take place at The
Players Club on Gramercy Park, where O'Neill one once a member.
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