The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center
Announces The Summers Picks

The authors of ten plays and three music theater works have been invited to attend the annual Playwrights Conference and Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

The summer session, July 5 through 31 will mark the 40th anniversary of the Playwrights Conference and the first time that the playwrights and music theater seasons have been combined. According to O’Neill Center Artistic Director, J Ranelli, the decision to bring the two together was made “in the interests of providing the entire range of artistic resources to both projects”. In announcing the Playwrights Conference selections, Mr. Ranelli also outlined a sequence of celebratory events on Sunday mornings throughout the month that will bring past and present writers, actors, directors and designers to Waterford to share their recollections from all periods of the O’Neill Center’s history. The music theater choices were announced by Paulette Haupt, artistic director of the Music Theater Conference since its inception in 1978.

The Plays are:

• afterdark – by Kara Manning
• As Reaper in Summer Grain – by Keith Byron Kirk
• Blind Mouth Singing– by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas
• Dark Yellow – by Julia Jordan
• The Electric Century – by Andrew Case
• Erin Go Bra-less – by John Shea
• The Frugal Repast – by Ron Hirsen
• Slay the Dragon– by Victor Lodato
• Transference – by Wayne Peter Liebman
• A Living Room In Africa – by Bathsheba Doran

The Music Theater works are:

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Lauren Robert: Book, Music and Lyrics

River’s End

Cheryl Coons: Book and Lyrics
Chuck Larkin: Music

Hell Hole Honeys

Steve Mackes: Book and Lyrics
Dave Ogrin: Music and Lyrics
Ben Budick: Lyrics

The public presentation schedule of the works-in-progress begins with a Sunday matinee on July 11. For box office information, call 860-443-1238. A detailed scheduled will be announced soon and will be available on the O’Neill Center’s website: www.theoneill.org