Past Artists in Residence

See our past artists in residence and the projects they worked on during their fellowships at Tao House.

 

2023

Martin Petrucci                       One Act:  O’Neill in Buenos Aires

Matthew Olmos                     “A Home What Howls” into an opera

Min Kahng                               “The Aftermath Liturgy” (COVID)

Sharon Green                          “Teaching and Learning in Pandemic Time: A Documentary Theatre Project”

 

2022

Vernon Williams                     Play, “Mayor Jones” depiction of “Emperor Jones” In modern times

Dassia Possner                       Research for book on Kamerny Theatre of Russia

Tommy Smith                         “The Buried Stream – based in Ireland

Nia Akilah Robinson              “The Day After” – a play about the reviews of a Preview of a “Black” play

Mary Lynn Owens                  (Testing) now “Salvage” a play about interracial, intergenerational characters (4 actors)

 

2021

Kate Bredeson                        Continuation of forthcoming book: “A Lifetime of Resistance: the Diaries of Judith Malia

                                                    1947-2015 Co-founder

Chuck Goodin                         Play, “Port Hope”. Three act play post war modern age of New York experimental theater

                                                    Company

Minghao Tu                             “A Silkworm Play”

Bill Bowers                              a solo play, “The Space Between Us” (mime Prizes, BTH AND AC)

Jennifer Maisel                      Play:  “Yellow Wallpaper – 2020”

 

2020

Dan Venning                           Research and writing an article of O’Neill’s Pulitzer

Tira Palmquist                         new play, “A Body’s Midnight”

 Erin Considine                        Complete a two play cycle: “ The Firefly Plays”

Paul Kruse

 

2019

Jane Dominik                            Develop, edit and complete for publication, "Singing for their Fathers: The Struggle for

                                                      Connection and Catharsis in American Drama”

 Katie Johnson                          Complete, “Racing the Great White Way: A Counter-History of Early Twentieth-Century

                                                      Broadway”

John Jesurun                            Play: “Tabula Rasa” – library in space

 

2018

Kara Lee Corthron                   New play: features three slave auctions, one 1619, Fictional auction set in 20th century plus

                                                      one not fully developed

William Davis King                  Book about the time and place when O’Neill wrote “Long Days Journey Into Night” and

                                                      other late plays

Ann Fletcher                             Work on a chapter in her book regarding stage of O’Neill plays, specifically of

                                                      Provincetown plays

 

2017

Scott Cummings                     Complete manuscript for book examining the exercises, playwriting strategie and artistic vision of Maria Irene Fornes (deceased soon after Cummings Residency)

Adam Versenyi                        Complete the first draft of a translation of Chilean Playwright/director Ramon Griffero’s book of aesthetic theory (The Dramaturgy of Space)

Patrick Midgley                       A performance piece connections between Shakespeare and O’Neill

 

2016

Valerie Joyce                           Preparations for participation in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, revise and edit, “I Will Speak for Myself” and completion of a chapter of a book 4

Thierry Dubost                        Two projects with one more likely: short biography of O’Neill written in French to assist readers to understand the these and aesthetic achievements of the playwright

 

2015

Adrienne Pender                     A play about Charles Sidney Gilpin, a relation, who starred in the original “The Emperor Jomes” on Broadway in 1921

Herman Farrell                        Work on notes, outlines and scenes with a first draft of O’Neill’s life and work

David Palmer                           A scholarly paper on the conception of tragedy as displayed in the work of O’Neill