Who’s New at O’Neill: 2013 Nat’l Playwrights Conference Cast and Directors Announced

The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center knows who will be in the seven plays of its National Playwrights Conference, which runs July 3-27.

The playwrights and plays— David Auburn (Lost Lake), Jeff Augustin (Little Children Dream of God), Bekah Brunstetter (The Oregon Trail), Michael Yates Crowley (Evanston: A Rare Comedy), Samuel D. Hunter (A Great Wilderness), Jen Silverman (All the Roads Home), Lauren Yee (Samsara) and Martin Zimmerman (The Solid Sand Below)—were announced weeks back.

Here are the actors:

Damian Bailey (Little Children Dream of God)

Duane Boutte (Little Children Dream of God)

Ashley Bryant (Little Children Dream of God)

Tina Benko (Little Children Dream of God)

Hannah Cabell (All the Roads Home)

Eisa Davis (Lost Lake)

Mike Doyle (Sansara)

Daiva Deupree (Sansara)

Jon DeVries (A Great Wilderness)

Scott Drummond (Solid Sand Below)

Christine Estabrook (A Great Wilderness)

Mateo Gomez (Little Children Dream of God)

Aaron Simon Gross (A Great Wilderness)

Anna Margaret Hollyman (Evanston: A Rare Comedy)

Eva Kaminsky (Evanston: A Rare Comedy)

Ryan King (Solid Sand Below)

Tasha Lawrence (A Great Wilderness)

Ronete Levenson (The Oregon Trail and Evanston: A Rare Comedy)

Bhavesh Patel (Sansara)

Emily Louise Perkins (The Oregon Trail)

Crystal Lucas-Perry (Evanston: A Rare Comedy)

Kate McCluggage (Evanston: A Rare Comedy)

Christy Pusz (All the Roads Home)

Brian Quijada (Solid Sand Below)

Laura Ramadei (The Oregon Trail)

James Lloyd Reynolds (The Oregon Trail and Evanston: A Rare Comedy)

Will Rogers (Evanston: A Rare Comedy)

Lipica Shah (Sansara)

Alec Shaw (The Oregon Trail)

Shayna Small (The Oregon Trail)

Terrell Donnell Sledge (Solid Sand Below)

Felix Solis (Solid Sand Below)

Makela Spielman (All the Roads Home)

Phillip Taratula (Sansara)

Joe Tippett (All the Roads Home)

 

Two shows, A Great Wilderness and Lost Lake, have some roles yet to be filled. And Jeff Augustin’s Little Children Dream of God isn’t mentioned at all in the press release about the casting.

 

Nice list. A few folks I recall fondly from their Yale School of Drama days and beyond—Ryan King (who was in Rolin Jones’ The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow both at the Yale Rep and Off Broadway) and James Lloyd Reynolds (in photo abovel; he was in Mame and 42^nd Street at the Goodspeed), for starters. Kate McCluggage was in Bell, Book and Candle last year at the Long Wharf and Hartford Stage, and in It’s a Wonderful Life at the Long Wharf before that. I could go on.

Here are the performance dates for the shows:

The Solid Sand Below (directed by Kent Thompson): July 3 & 4 at 8:15 p.m.

Samsara: July 5 at 7:15 p.m. and July 6 at 8:15 p.m.

A Great Wilderness (directed by Braden Abraham): July 10 & 11 at 8:15 p.m.

Little Children Dream of God (directed by Giovanna Sardelli): July 12 at 7:15 p.m. & July 13 at 8:15 p.m.

The Oregon Trail (directed by Geordie Broadwater): July 18 at 8:15 p.m., July 19 at 7:15 p.m.

All the Roads Home (directed by Adam Greenfield): July 19 at 7:15 p.m., July 20 At 3:15 p.m.

Evanston: A Rare Comedy (directed by Michael Rau): July 24 & 25 at 8:15 p.m.

Lost Lake (directed by Wendy C. Goldberg): July 26 at 7:15 p.m., July 27 at 8:15 p.m.

 

Is there a need to remind you that these are script-in-hand readings of works-in-progress? Didn’t think so. This is summer in Connecticut, and O’Neill rules. For descriptions of the shows and other stuff, head here.