NATIONAL
PLAYWRIGHTS
CONFERENCE
June 20–July 14
The National Playwrights Conference — the O’Neill’s founding program — is a national laboratory offering resources vital to creative risk-taking. Every year, innovative, unproduced works are selected from a pool of 1,300+ submissions to be developed with the support of a professional company of actors, designers, dramaturgs, and directors. For this development, the Conference proudly implements a staged reading process born of the workshop model developed early in the O’Neill’s history by its founder, George C. White, and NPC’s inaugural artistic director, Lloyd Richards. The remaining time in each writer’s four-week residency is self-directed — to think, create, and interact with other artists. This year’s talented group of writers join a cadre of O’Neill playwright alumni who have reimagined the American theater in fundamental ways, including August Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Wendy Wasserstein, Jeremy O. Harris, Dominique Morisseau, Martnya Majok, and more.
You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!
THURSDAY, JUNE 20 | 8:15PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 22 | 7:15PM
BY KEIKO GREEN
Greg’s received a terminal diagnosis. But the Earth's dying, too, so like, at least he’s in good company? This all makes sense to Greg. After all, the world’s too big not to be kind of magical.
