Past Artists in Residence

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

2024

 

Parade Stone

At Tao House, she will write a new draft of her play,  An Invitation to Anna’s Wedding based on familial problems with drugs and alcohol  She refers to the theme as being like O’Neill’s Long Days Journey into Night.

Lee Osorio

Recipient of the Carey Perloff Fellowship which is awarded to an established theatre artist who desires to transition into a writer. He will work on his play Public Wickedness, based on Laud Humphreys’ 1968 expose regarding public sex between men in Saint Louis’s Forest Park, and an abridged version Tearoom TradeImpersonal sex in Public Places: a little-known chapter of queer history.

Deborah Yarchun

She will work on a new play Variations on Crossing the Alps, which she describes as “a personal quest to illuminate my family’s long-obscured Holocaust survival.” It will focus on a modern-day woman grappling with her own displacement during Covid-19 while attempting to understand her grandparents’ WWII experiences.

Jodie Hollander

At Tao House she will work on her Third Collection of Poems, exploring nature as a place of refuge in the aftermath of trauma and the impact of climate change.

Dassia Possner

Returns to Tao House to work on her book TheatreUnchained: the Moscow Kamerny Theatre Revolution. This residency she plans to complete the final chapter (6) focusing on the political persecution of the Kamerny.

Henry Schvey

At Tao House he plans to write an essay, Realism vs. Expressionism in the work of Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams, a subject he believes has never been adequately observed or examined and will use the Foundation’s archival materials to delve into the composition and manuscripts of O’Neill’s late plays.

 

 

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                      To prepare a scholarly book, “A Lifetime of Resistance:  The Diaries of Judith Malina, 1947-

2015” for publication by publishing house, Routledge, August 2021.

Chuck Goodin                        To work on a new three-act play, “Fort Hope” about a Korean War veteran who is received

at home as a hero but must contend with a personal sense of moral guilt about his actions in the war. Theme; “what happens to the human soul when overwhelmed by the onslaught of modern demands.” Post-war, modern age of New York experimental theater.

Minghao Tu                           To develop “A Silkworm Play,”  a tragic comedy about two silkworms as they transition out of

their cocoons.

Bill Bowers                             An accomplished mime and writer,  he will explore ‘the voice of silence’ incorporating

storytelling with and without words in a new solo play, “The Space Between Us,”  based on his personal experience during the COVID pandemic. (Mime Prizes, BTH AND AC)

Jennifer Maisel                      To continue the  development and writing  of the first draft of a play, “Yellow Wallpaper 2.0

2020,”  based on an 1892 feminist story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”. As a result, her play was produced by the Eugene O'Neill Foundation to a public audience for the first time, in 2023.

 

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

                                                     Jones” 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