The O'Neill Announces Weekly Events

The National Music Theater Conference, led by artistic director Paulette Haupt, enters its final week, and will present final readings of two new musicals, Suprema, with Book and lyrics by JorDan Harrison, Music and Lyrics by Daniel Zaitchik; and The Shadow Sparrow, with Book by Anton Dudley, Lyrics by Charlie Sohne, and Music by Keith Gordon.

Readings of Suprema, directed by May Adrales with musical direction by Julie McBride, and featuring Heath Calvert, Chris Hoch, Jamey Hood, Carl Kimbrough, Theresa McCarthy, Brooke Moriber, Rachel Resheff, and Price Waldman will be held Wednesday, July 13 at 8pm, and Friday, July 15 at 7pm.

A reading of The Shadow Sparrow, directed by Joe Calarco with musical direction by David Libby, and featuring Danny Binstock and Barbara Walsh will take place Thursday, July 14 at 8pm.

The National Playwrights Conference, led by artistic director Wendy C. Goldberg, will present two more of the Conference?s eight shows, Good Goods, by Christina Anderson and An Incident by Anna Ziegler.

Readings of Good Goods, directed by Mia Rovegno and featuring Cherise Boothe, Frank Harts, Tyrone Mitchell Henderson, Aja Naomi King, Curtis McClarin, and Hubert Point Du Jour, will begin Wednesday, July 13 at 8:15pm and conclude Thursday, July 14 at 8:15pm.

An Incident, directed by Giovanna Sardelli and featuring Molly Coogan, Rick Foucheux, Linda Gehringer, Ben Morrow, and Matthew Stadelmann, will have readings at Friday, July 15 at 7:15pm and Saturday, July 16 at 8:15pm.

Theatermakers, the summer program of the National Theater Institute will present three original one-act plays on Tuesday, July 12 at 8pm. These one-act plays are written, directed, and performed by Theatermakers students within a weekly intensive period of development. All Theatermakers performances are free and open to the public.

All performances take place at the O'Neill, 305 Great Neck Road in Waterford, Connecticut. Schedule is subject to change. Tickets may be ordered online at www.theoneill.org or through the box office at 860.443.1238. Discounted tickets are available for O'Neill Members, for more information, email Membership@theoneill.org or call 860-443-5378 x211.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, founded in 1964 in honor of Eugene O'Neill, four-time Pulitzer Prize Winner and the only American playwright to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, 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 the American theater. The O'Neill has been home to more than 1,000 new works for the stage and 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, the Cabaret & Performance Conference, and the National Theater Institute, which conducts semester-long intensive theater training programs as well as Theatermakers, a six-week summer program.

The O'Neill also owns and operates the Monte Cristo Cottage, boyhood summer home of Eugene O'Neill and setting for his plays Ah Wilderness! and Long Day?s Journey Into Night. The museum is a registered National Historic Landmark and is open to the public during the summer season.

In addition to its Tony recognition, the O'Neill has received the National Opera Award, the Jujamcyn Award for Theatre Excellence, and the Arts and Business Council Encore Award. For more information, visit www.theoneill.org or email theaterlives@theoneill.org.

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