Exploring the art of Eugene O'Neill, America's only
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PLAYWRIGHTS THEATER O'NEILL STUDIO
SINCE 1998, EXPLORING EUGENE O'NEILL'S PLAYS THROUGH THE BIOGRAPHICAL LENS OF
ARTHUR AND BARBARA GELB FOR THE PURPOSE OF INSPIRING NEW WORK.
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Writing your first play can be a thrilling but disappointing experience, so a mentor can make all the difference in whether you attempt a second one. Without critique and encouragement, a promising voice can be silenced forever.
Stephen Kennedy Murphy, who has had his writing has published in The New Yorker and performed in venues at Lincoln Center, The Provincetown Playhouse and The Irish Repertory Theatre has sought to provide mentorship by creating a structure by which playwrights mentor each other.
Through The O’Neill Studio at Yale, playwrights from the Yale School of Drama were linked in mentorship with Yale college students who in turn mentored local high school students in a “chain of mentors” anchored in a study of O’Neill. One new play was then selected from each level for production subsequent to a master class on it with a prominent Yale alumnus.
PLAYWRITING COMPETITION
In celebration of the centennial of O’Neill’s Broadway debut in 2020, Playwrights Theater’s O’Neill Studio will make this kind of mentorship opportunity available to playwrights nationally through our website eugeneoneill.net where they may enter The O’Neill Studio’s new competition for audio or “sonic” plays.
With the dialects, sound effects and many songs heard in them, O’Neill’s plays are a feast for the ear. So, The Studio seeks to encourage the creation of theater that can be as readily heard as seen.
O"NEILL AFTER DARK
For inspiration, contestants will be invited to tune into Playwrights Theater’s radio station O’Neill After Dark, where they can fuel their artistic process by listening to sessions of The Playwrights Theater Forum, a reading series in which O’Neill’s plays are read and discussed.
The Forum, which was first inaugurated by preeminent director of O’Neill, Jose Quintero, has ignited the imaginations of young theatre artists through evenings featuring appearances by Oscar and Tony-winning actors, among them Liam Neeson, Zoe Caldwell and Marian Seldes. The Forum explores O’Neill’s creative beginnings through the biographical lens of Stephen’s mentor Arthur Gelb, a former managing editor of The New York Times whose O'Neill books co-written with his wife Barbara Gelb are the foundation of Playwrights Theater’s exploration of O’Neill.
The Subsequent to The Forum, playwrights will submit their audio plays as self-made media which will then be made listenable at O’Neill After Dark for audience feedback. From the initial round, three will be selected from each of the three levels for mentoring: young professionals under 25, who mentor college students, who in turn mentor high school seniors by exchanging play drafts and critique through logins to be made available at our eugeneoneill.net.
One playwright from each level will be selected for professional recordings being made of them for final broadcast.
Theater is the most human of spoken mediums. New voices need to be nurtured to be heard. By linking playwrights and their mentors, Playwrights Theater seeks to invest in the sounds of the future.