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The Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit theater company founded in 1964 by George C. White. The O'Neill is home to the National Theater Institute (est. 1970), and several major theater conferences including the National Critics Conference (est. 1975), the National Musical Theatre Conference (est. 1978), the Puppetry Conference (est. 1990), the Cabaret Conference (est. 2005) and the National Playwrights Conference (est. 1965). The Monte Cristo Cottage, Eugene O'Neill's childhood home, was purchased and restored by the O'Neill in the 1970s and is maintained as a museum. The company received a Special Tony Award in 1979. The theater's campus, overlooking Long Island Sound in Waterford Beach Park, has four major performance spaces: two indoor and two outdoor.
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National Theater Institute
The National Theater Institute (NTI) is the O'Neill Center's accredited 14-week intensive theater program for college students. Accredited by Connecticut College, NTI offers classes in acting, directing, design, movement, playwriting and voice. International components include two-week seminars at Stratford-upon-Avon or St. Petersburg, Russia; a semester at the Moscow Art Theater is also a possibility.
The motto of NTI is "risk, fail, risk again." [1]
Major works
The following is a list of plays, musicals, and performance pieces first developed at the O'Neill that have gone on to further success.
- National Musical Theater Conference
- Avenue Q (2002)
- In the Heights (2005)
- Nine (1979)
- Violet (1994)
- The Wild Party (1997)
- National Playwrights Conference
- A History of the American Film – Christopher Durang (1976)
- Agnes of God – John Pielmeier (1979)
- Fences – August Wilson (1983)
- FOB – David Henry Hwang (1979)
- Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson (1984)
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – August Wilson (1982)
- Seven Guitars – August Wilson (1994)
- The Piano Lesson – August Wilson (1986)
- The Receptionist – Adam Bock (2006)
- Trueblinka – Adam Rapp (1997)
- Uncommon Women and Others – Wendy Wasserstein (1977)
- Cabaret & Performance Conference
- The Story of My Life (2006)
- title of show (2005)
- National Critics Conference
Notable O'Neill alumni
- National Theater Institute
- Emily Bergl
- Adam Bock (The Receptionist)
- Susan Booth
- Ted Chapin
- Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue)
- Jeremy B. Cohen
- Jack Coleman (Heroes)
- Rachel Dratch (SNL)
- Chris Elliott (SNL)
- Jennifer Garner (Alias)
- Chad Gervich
- Maria Goyanes
- Barry Grove
- Paul Hodes
- Kristina Klebe
- Greg Allen
- John Krasinski (The Office)
- Jeremy Piven (Entourage)
- Michael Portnoy
- Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother)
- Kate Robin (Six Feet Under)
- Sam Robards
- Erica Schmidt
- Rebecca Taichman
- Mark Teschner
- Conference Playwrights
- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
- Edward Albee
- Ifa Bayeza
- Lee Blessing
- Julia Cho
- Constance Congdon
- Kia Corthron
- Joe DiPietro
- Christopher Durang
- Rebecca Gilman
- Gina Gionfriddo
- John Guare
- Israel Horovitz
- David Henry Hwang
- David Lindsay-Abaire
- Adam Rapp
- John Henry Redwood
- John Patrick Shanley
- Sam Shepard
- Regina Taylor
- Paula Vogel
- Wendy Wasserstein
- August Wilson
- Lanford Wilson
- Conference Directors
- Conference Actors & Guest Artists
External links
- Eugene O'Neill Theater Center official website
- Eugene O'Neill Theater Center at the Internet Broadway Database
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