Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

Walnut Grove
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Location:	305 Great Neck Road, Waterford, Connecticut
Area:	40 acres (16 ha)
Built:	1822
Architectural style:	Federal, Gothic Revival, et al.
Governing body:	Local
NRHP Reference#:	05001044^[1]
Added to NRHP:	September 21, 2005

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 the recipient of the 2010 Regional Theater Tony Award. The O'Neill is home to the National Theater Institute (est. 1970), and several major theater conferences including the National Critics Conference^[2] (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 in New London, Connecticut, was purchased and restored by the O'Neill in the 1970s and is maintained as a museum. The company also 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. The O'Neill is run by Executive Director Preston Whiteway.

Also known as Walnut Grove and Hammond Estate, the seven buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 21, 2005.

1 National Theater Institute
2 Major works
3 Notable O'Neill alumni
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

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]

Well Known Faculty: Brian Dennehy; Donna DiNovelli; G.W. Mercier; David Chandler; Adam Bock; Michael Cadman

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 Playwrights Conference

The Receptionist – Adam Bock (2006)
Fuddy Meers - David Lindsay-Abaire (1998)
Trueblinka – Adam Rapp (1997)
Seven Guitars – August Wilson (1994)
The Piano Lesson – August Wilson (1986)
Joe Turner's Come and Gone – August Wilson (1984)
Fences – August Wilson (1983)
Fences - August Wilson (1982)
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea - John Patrick Shanley (1982)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – August Wilson (1982)
Agnes of God – John Pielmeier (1979)
FOB – David Henry Hwang (1979)
Bent – Martin Sherman (1978)
Uncommon Women and Others – Wendy Wasserstein (1977)
A History of the American Film – Christopher Durang (1976)
Madmen and Specialists - Wole Soyinka (1970)
House of Blue Leaves - John Guare (1966)

National Musical Theater Conference

Tales of the City (2009)
In the Heights (2005)
Avenue Q (2002)
The Wild Party (1997)
Nine (1979)

Cabaret & Performance Conference

The Story of My Life (2006)
title of show (2005)

National Critics Conference

Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater – Davi Napoleon

Notable O'Neill alumni

National Theater Institute

Emily Bergl
Adam Bock (The Receptionist)
Gordon Clapp (NYPD Blue)
Jack Coleman (Heroes)
Rachel Dratch (SNL)
Chris Elliott (SNL)
Michael Emerson
Paul Hodes
Kristina Klebe
John Krasinski (The Office)
Jeremy Piven (Entourage)
Michael "Soy Bomb" Portnoy
Josh Radnor (How I Met Your Mother)
Kate Robin (Six Feet Under)
Sam Robards
Mark Teschner

Conference Playwrights

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
^ Napoleon, Davi (June 3, 2010). "At the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Critics Institute 5Q4 Dan Sullivan". The Faster Times. http://thefastertimes.com/theatertalk/2010/06/03/at-the-eugene-oneill-theater-centers-critics-institute-5q4-dan-sullivan/. Retrieved June 4, 2010.

External links

[//http://www.theoneill.org/ Eugene O'Neill Theater Center official website]

Regional Theatre Tony Award

1940s	Barter Theatre (Abingdon, VA) (1948)

1970s	Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) (1976) · Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles, CA) (1977) · Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven, CT) (1978) · American Conservatory Theater (San Francisco, CA) (1979)

1980s	Actors Theatre of Louisville (1980) · Trinity Repertory Company (Providence, R.I.) (1981) · Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis, MN) (1982) · Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland, OR) (1983) · Old Globe Theatre (San Diego, CA) (1984) · Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago, IL) (1985) · American Repertory Theater (Cambridge, MA) (1986) · San Francisco Mime Troupe (1987) · South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA) (1988) · Hartford Stage (1989)

1990s	Seattle Repertory Theatre (1990) · Yale Repertory Theatre (New Haven, CT) (1991) · Goodman Theatre (Chicago, IL) (1992) · La Jolla Playhouse (1993) · McCarter Theatre (Princeton, NJ) (1994) · Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT) (1995) · Alley Theatre (Houston, TX) (1996) · Berkeley Repertory Theatre (1997) · Denver Center Theatre Company (1998) · Crossroads Theatre (New Brunswick, NJ) (1999)

2000s	Utah Shakespearean Festival (Cedar City, UT) (2000) · Victory Gardens Theater (Chicago, IL) (2001) · Williamstown Theatre Festival (2002) · Children's Theatre Company (Minneapolis, MN) (2003) · Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (2004) · Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Minneapolis, MN) (2005) · Intiman Playhouse (Seattle, WA) (2006) · Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, GA) (2007) · Chicago Shakespeare Theater (2008) · Signature Theatre (Arlington, Virginia) (2009)

2010s	Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center (Waterford, CT) (2010) · Lookingglass Theatre Company (Chicago, IL) (2011)

Complete list · (1976–2000) · (2001–2025)

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