TRU Panel - Nurturing New Work
What Producers Can Learn from the Playwrights Conference
Members and friends, please join us for our monthly panel.
With Jeffrey Sweet, playwright (The Value of Names, Kunstler, Flyovers, Bluff, Court-Martial at Fort Devens, You Only Shoot the Ones You Love) and the upcoming book "The O'Neill: The Transformation of Modern American Theater" on the 50th anniversary of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center; Tom Viertel, Board Chairman of the O'Neill Center, commercial producer (Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, Young Frankenstein, Leap of Faith, The Norman Conquests, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Company, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Café, Angels in America, Oleanna, Love Letters, Driving Miss Daisy, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Penn and Teller and many others); Linda Winer, chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday, frequent teacher at the National Critics Institute of the O'Neill.
For nearly 50 years, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has been a pioneer in the development of new work and new artists for American theater. The National Playwrights Conference, and subsequently the National Music Theater Conference, were founded upon the concept that critically important work exists between (1) when a work is written and (2) when it advances into production. That step became known as “the O’Neill process.” How has this process evolved over the years, how has it set the pattern for other developmental programs, and how does it influence the way writers develop their work? What do writers learn at the O'Neill? Might it be fruitful for commercial producers to apply some of the principles of the O'Neill when developing new works for production?
Doors open at 7:00pm for networking and refreshments, roundtable introductions of everyone in the room will start at 7:30pm - come prepared with your best one-minute summary of who you are, and what you need.
Free for TRU members; $12 for non-members. Please call at least a day in advance (or much sooner) for reservations: 212-714-7628; or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com
For nearly 50 years, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center has been a pioneer in the development of new work and new artists for American theater. The National Playwrights Conference, and subsequently the National Music Theater Conference, were founded upon the concept that critically important work exists between (1) when a work is written and (2) when it advances into production. That step became known as “the O’Neill process.” How has this process evolved over the years, how has it set the pattern for other developmental programs, and how does it influence the way writers develop their work? What do writers learn at the O'Neill? Might it be fruitful for commercial producers to apply some of the principles of the O'Neill when developing new works for production?
Doors open at 7:00pm for networking and refreshments, roundtable introductions of everyone in the room will start at 7:30pm - come prepared with your best one-minute summary of who you are, and what you need.
Free for TRU members; $12 for non-members. Please call at least a day in advance (or much sooner) for reservations: 212-714-7628; or e-mail TRUStaff1@gmail.com
Event Information
TRU Monthly Panel: Nurturing New Works: What Producers Can Learn from the O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference.
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When?
Wednesday, Apr 30, 2014, 07:30 PM
Where?
The Players Theater, 115 Macdougal Street, downstairs Mainstage Theatre
Jeffrey Sweet, playwright
Author of "The O'Neill: The Transformation of Modern American Theater" on the 50th anniversary of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
Linda Winer, theater critic
Chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday, frequent teacher at the National Critics Institute of the O'Neill.
Tom Viertel, producer
Board Chairman of the O'Neill Center, commercial producer (Hairspray, The Producers, A Little Night Music, Young Frankenstein, Leap of Faith, The Norman Conquests, more).