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 Trade: Impersonal 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