![]() ![]() ![]() In the pioneering spirit of its namesake, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center discovers, develops, and empowers new work, new voices, and creative risk-taking. The O'Neill also manages and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage, O'Neill's childhood home located in neighboring New London. In September 2016, the O'Neill was awarded the National Medal of Arts from President Obama in a White House ceremony celebrating the O'Neill's contribution to American culture.Īmong the hundreds of plays and musicals developed and premiered at the O'Neill are such notable works as John Guare's The House Of Blue Leaves Brian Crawley and Jeanine Tesori's Violet Wendy Wasserstein's Uncommon Women and Others August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, and The Piano Lesson Lee Blessing's A Walk In The Woods Nine by Arthur Kopit, Mario Fratti, and Maury Yeston Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty In the Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell and Jennifer Haley's The Nether. Additionally, the O’Neill has received the National Opera Award, the Jujamcyn Award of Theater Excellence, and the Arts and Business Council Encore Award. ![]() The O'Neill itself is the recipient of two Tony Awards, in 2010 for Regional Theatre, and in 1979 for Theatrical Excellence. ![]() Staff and alumni from the O'Neill have won every major award in theater arts. Others work as playwrights, directors, stage management, administration, and hundreds of other roles that the public never sees but are nonetheless essential to every production. Students and professionals who have honed their skills at the O'Neill can be seen in these venues every day across the nation and world. Work first performed at the O'Neill has gone on to regional theaters, Broadway, film, and television. Scores of projects developed at the O’Neill have gone on to full production at theaters around the world. All focus remains on the writer and script: Performers work with simply rendered sets and costumes, script in hand, revealing for the first time the magic of a new play or musical, puppetry piece, or cabaret act. Writers, directors, puppeteers, singers, students, and audiences alike take their first steps in exploring, revising, and understanding their work and the potential of the theater they help create. O’Neill programs include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Critics Institute, National Puppetry Conference, Cabaret Performance Conference, National Theater Institute – which offers six credit-earning undergraduate training programs – and more.įrom its campus in Waterford, Connecticut, the O’Neill has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and thousands more emerging artists. White 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 O'Neill has launched some of the most important voices and works in American theater and has revolutionized the way new work is developed. The Launchpad of American Theater, the O’Neill is the country’s preeminent organization dedicated to the development of new works and new voices for the stage.įounded in 1964 by George C. ![]()
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