Past Productions
Initiated in 1996 by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House in collaboration with the National Park Service, has presented staged readings of O’Neill’s plays by professional directors and actors in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, The Foundation frequently presents performances of works by playwrights who influenced O’Neill or were influenced by him—including new playwrights.
Our more recent productions have educational videos and engagement guides for those wishing to learn more about the plays or use the resources in a classroom setting.
2022
Welded, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Jan.)
A Moon for the Misbegotten, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Festival)
2021
Beyond the Horizon
Beyond the Horizon, a Tao House Film
The Ghosts of Tao House, virtual recordings
Tiny Horizon Stories, virtual short stories
2020
O’Neill’s Lost Plays; The Web, Abortion, and Recklessness, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
2019
The Great God Brown (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Jan.)
Long Day's Journey Into Night, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Festival)
Balclutha Sea Plays, Hyde Street Pier, SF.
2018
Days Without End, (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Jan.)
Hughie, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Festival)
All My Sons, (Arthur Miller), dir. Patrick Russell (Festival)
2017
A Touch of the Poet (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Festival)
Shell Shock (O’Neill), dir. Chloe Bronzan and
The Rescue (Creighton Smith), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Dynamo (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Jan.)
2016
The Emperor Jones (Festival)
Seascape (Festival)
"N" (Spring)
O’Neill: the Rhythms of His Soul (Written by Dan Cawthon. Based on The Eugene O’Neill Songbook by Travis Bogard), dir: Rachael Robinson (Jan.)
2015
Waiting for Lefty (Clifford Odets), dir. Chad Deverman
Golden Boy (Clifford Odets), dir. Phoebe Moyer
Hughie (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Jan.)
Spring, 2014
A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller), dir. Joy Carlin
El Paso Blue (Octavio Solis)
January 2014
Short Plays inspired by O’Neill, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
From San Francisco PlayGround, Playwrights’ Guild of Pear Avenue, and Eugene O’Neill Studio Retreat
Spring, 2013
The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov), dir. George Maguire
The Lady From the Sea (Henrik Ibsen), dir. Susannah Martin
January 2013
More Stately Mansions (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Spring, 2012
Short scenes from PlayGround, SF, dir. Josy Miller
Exorcism (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Diff’rent (O’Neill), dir. Lois Grandi
January 2012
The Straw (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
January 2011
Bound East for Cardiff (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
In the Zone (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
The Long Voyage Home (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Spring, 2010
Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill), dir. Soren Oliver
Track of the Cat (Graeme Maley), dir. Graeme Maley
Short Scenes from PlayGround, SF, dir. Josy Miller & Eric Fraisher Hayes
January 2010
A Touch of the Poet (O’Neill), dir. Eric Frasher Hayes
Spring, 2009
Born Tired (new play) Bevin Lew, dir. Bevin Lew
The Sniper (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
The Movie Man (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Shell Shock (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Spring, 2008
Blood Mirage (new play) Jeremy Hargraves, dir. Michael Ward
Revelations (scenes from Anna Christie, Mourning Becomes Electra), dir. Michael Ward
Welded (O’Neill), dir. Josy Miller
Spring, 2007
This Is Not My Life (new play), Adam Sandel, dir. Michael Ward
Now I Ask You (O’Neill), dir. Daren A. Carollo
Spring, 2006
Pear Slices, (8 brief original plays) Pear Avenue Theatre, dir. Diane Tasca
The Typographer’s Dream (Bock), Encore Theatre Company, dir. Lisa Steindler
Spring, 2005
Overtures (Gerstenberg), dir. M. O’Neill
Before Breakfast (Eugene O’Neill), dir. M. O’Neill
Enemies (Boyce/Hapgood), dir. M. O’Neill
E.G.O: The Passions of Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (Morello), dir. Dan Cawthon
Spring, 2004
The Lonesome West (McDonagh), Namaste Theatre Company, dir. M. Uppendahl
Fog (O’Neill), dir. Lois Grandi
Thirst (O’Neill), dir. Lois Grandi
Recklessness (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Suppressed Desires (Glaspell and Cook), dir. Dan Cawthon
Spring, 2003
Into the Wake of the Moon—written and performed by Kurt Gravenhorst
The Great God Brown—Oakland Public Theatre, dir. Norman Gee
Spring, 2002
Hairy Ape (O’Neill)—Marin Theatre Company, dir. Lee Sankowich
Where the Cross is Made (O’Neill) – Namaste Theatre Company, dir. Mike Uppendahl
’Ile (O’Neill) -Namaste Theatre Company, dir. Mike Uppendahl
The Rope (O’Neill) -Namaste Theatre Company, dir. Mike Uppendahl
Spring, 2001
Servitude (O’Neill), dir. Tom Ross
Abortion (O’Neill), dir. Lois Grandi
Red Carnations (Hughes), dir. Lois Grandi
Bound East for Cardiff (Eugene O’Neill), dir. Andrea Gordon
In the Zone (O’Neill), dir. Andrea Gordon
Spring, 2000
Riders to the Sea (Synge), dir. Joy Carlin
Overtures (Gerstenberg), dir. Joy Carlin
Diff’rent (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Freedom (Reed), dir. Alan McElvey
Shell Shock (O’Neill), dir. Alan McElvey
Spring, 1999
Recklessness (O’Neill), dir. Jan Erlendson
Another Way Out (Langer), dir. Jan Erlendson
A Wife for a Life (O’Neill), dir. Nancy Carlin
Lovers—Winners (Friel), dir. Nancy Carlin
Welded (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Spring, 1998
’Ile (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Aria Da Capo (St. Vincent Millay), dir. Dan Cawthon
The Web (O’Neill), dir. Ed Hastings
Hello Out There (Saroyan), dir. Ed Hastings
Miss Julie (Strindberg), dir. Barbara Oliver
Spring, 1997
The Outside (Glaspell), dir. Joy Carlin
Trifles (Glaspell), dir. Joy Carlin
Fog (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Thirst (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
The Emperor Jones (O’Neill), dir. Ed Hastings
Spring, 1996
Constancy (Neith Boyce), dir. Joy Carlin
Suppressed Desires (Glaspell and Cook), dir. Joy Carlin
Before Breakfast (O’Neill), dir. Barbara Oliver
My Heart’s in the Highlands (Saroyan), dir. Barbara Oliver
The Rope (O’Neill), dir. Ed Hastings
Where the Cross is Made (O’Neill), dir. Ed Hastings