Joe Calarco, Gabriel Barre, Saheem Ali to Direct at O'Neill's 2013 National Music Theater Conference, June-July 2013

Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Music Theater Conference, today announced directors of the three projects selected for development at the 2013 Conference, as well as a Composer in Residence.

The list of directors includes: Breaking Bread Theatre Co-Artistic Director and four-time Helen Hayes Award winner Joe Calarco, Calloway Award winner and Tony Award nominee Gabriel Barre, and Shubert Fellow & New York Theatre Workshop Directing Fellow Saheem Ali. Kenneth Gartman and Ray Fellman return to the O'Neill as the music directors for the 2013 selections Broadcast and The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes, respectively. The O'Neill welcomes John DiPinto as the music director for Goddess.

BROADCAST
Book & Lyrics by Nathan Christensen
Music by Scott Murphy
Directed by Joe Calarco
Music Direction by Kenneth Gartman
Performances: 6/22 at 8pm; 6/23 at 3pm; 6/26 at 8pm; 6/28 at 7pm

THE NOTEWORTHY LIFE OF HOWARD BARNES
Book & Lyrics by Christopher Dimond
Music by Michael Kooman
Directed by Gabriel Barre
Music Direction by Ray Fellman
Performances: 6/29 at 8pm; 6/30 at 3pm; 7/3 at 8pm; 7/5 at 7pm

GODDESS
Book, Lyrics, & Music by Mkhululi Z. Mabija & Michael Thurber
Directed by Saheem Ali
Music Direction by John DiPinto
Performances: 7/6 at 8pm; 7/7 at 3pm; 7/10 at 8pm; 7/12 at 7pm

2012 Fred Ebb Award winner and 2009 Kennedy Center ACTF Musical Theater Award winner Samuel Willmott will be the Conference's Composer in Residence.

Schedules are subject to change. Tickets go on sale Wednesday, June 5. Please call the O'Neill Box Office at (860) 443-1238 or visit www.theoneill.org for times, prices and reservations.

Founded in 1964, The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center honors the work of Eugene O'Neill, four-time Pulitzer Prize Winner and America's only playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and is the recipient of two Tony Awards, in 2010 for Regional Theatre, and in 1979 for Theatrical Excellence.

The O'Neill is the country's preeminent organization dedicated to the development of new works and new voices for American theater. It has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and to more than 2,500 emerging artists. Scores of projects developed at the O'Neill have gone on to full production at other theaters around the world, including Broadway, Off-Broadway, and major regional theaters.

O'Neill programs include the National Playwrights Conference, National Music Theater Conference, National Critics Institute,National Puppetry Conference, Cabaret & Performance Conference, and National Theater Institute which conducts semester-long intensive theater training and includes Theatermakers, a six-week summer program; academic credits are awarded for all NTI programs.

The O'Neill owns and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage as a museum open to the public. The childhood summer home of Eugene O'Neill, the Cottage is a National Historic Landmark.

Pictured: Gabriel Barre

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