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2011 Spring Season DAYS O’NEILL’S WHERE the CROSS IS MADE and GOLD ARE MAY 5, 6, 7 FEATURED in PLAYWRIGHTS’ THEATRE OFFERINGS NEWSLETTER SPRING 2011 ARTIST 2011 Spring Season DAYS O’NEILL’S WHERE THE CROSS IS MADE AND GOLD ARE MAY 5, 6, 7 FEATURED IN PLAYWRIGHTS’ THEATRE OFFERINGS The spring session of Artists Days at The Eugene O’Neill National Haunted by the Sea: From performed. The plays, written by Ignacio Historic Site this year will be on Transcendence to Greed Zuelete, Garret Jon Groenveld, and Rod Thursday May 5, Friday May 6, is the theme of the McFadden, were selected from over 30 and Saturday May 7. All artists upcoming Playwrights’ entries submitted in November for presenta- are welcome-- including sculp- Theatre playbill for May, tion at the Berkeley Rep. They were tors, musicians, poets, authors 2011. Following a highly “prompted” by the word-sculpture at the and performers. successful performance O’Neill Commemorative in downtown The site is adjacent to the Las of three plays from Danville dealing with transcendence. Joel Trampas open space on the west Eugene O’Neill’s Roster and Ken Sonkin will direct. and affords one of the most beau- Glencairn Cycle in Sunday, May 22 — Daren A.C. Carollo, tiful views of Mount Diablo and January, the spring Artistic Director of Diablo Theatre Company, the San Ramon Valley giving plein- offerings will further illustrate the playwright’s will direct Gold , written in 1921. The full- air artists multiple vistas and sub- attraction to the sea. jects from which to choose. length play of conscience, vengeance, and Sunday, May 1 — Josy Miller, Artistic Director ghosts, is based on the one-act work to be For those who prefer still life of the Hapgood Theatre Company in Antioch, presented on May 1. The cast will include painting, this year there will be an will direct a staged reading of the one-act play, Ruta and the other actors from Where the opportunity to create art works Where the Cross is Made , written in 1918. Cross is Made. from an arrangement of O’Neill Acclaimed Bay Area actor Both performances are scheduled for 3:00 pm artifacts and memorabilia. Artists Ken Ruta will be featured may stay for the day to paint, or in the Old Barn at Tao House. The National in the role of Captain may attend a partial day, taking Park Service will provide bus transportation Isaiah Bartlett. pictures to be used for reference to the site. They will leave from the Museum in producing works in their own In addition to the O’Neill of the San Ramon Valley, 205 Railroad studios. work, three short plays Avenue, Danville. beginning at 2:00.pm Select works will be displayed from PlayGround , the Admission is $25 for individual performances, during the O’Neill Festival in San Francisco based $45 for both. For reservations, visit our September. company that develops website www.eugeneoneill.org or call new playwrights, will be 925.820.1818. There are facilities to support Ken Ruta, Photo by Peter Prato almost every media -- bathrooms, Tom Leatherman is New Superintendent at hot and cold running water, sinks, Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site 110-volt electrical outlets, tables and chairs, and covered space. In early January 2011 Tom Leatherman was named the new superintendent of The program is sponsored by the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, replacing Martha Lee. Tom had been Eugene O’Neill Foundation in serving as the deputy superintendent for the past two years at Eugene O’Neill partnership with the National as well as three other National Park sites in Contra Costa County. Prior to his Park Service. Tom Leatherman assignments in the Bay Area, he served as the superintendent of Manzanar There is a nominal charge of five National Historic Site. But, Tom is no stranger to the Bay Area. He was born dollars. Shuttle Service provided in Oakland and grew up in the Santa Cruz Mountains on a small farm. He attended college at the by NPS. University of California at Santa Cruz and began his NPS career in 1989 as an intern at Pinnacles National Monument. Upon graduation in 1990, he started working seasonally for the NPS at Pinnacles Make your reservation by calling and went on to work at several other parks in the west, including Great Basin National Park, Sequoia 925.820.1818 or by email to tao- and Kings Canyon National Parks, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and Point Reyes National [email protected] . Seashore. Tom lives in San Ramon with his wife, Jeanie and two children, Marissa and Max. While not at work, he enjoys spending time with his family, hiking and cooking gourmet food. SPRING 20111 ‘O’NEILL IN BOHEMIA’ IS THEME OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN NY The conference program will focus on Book signings and a Greenwich Village tour O’Neill’s early career and those of other of sites important to O’Neill’s life and Provincetown Playhouse contemporar- those of the Provincetown Playhouse, ies. Most of O’Neill earliest plays were along with just being able to attend produced by the Provincetown Players in professional theatre in New York will only Greenwich Village beginning in 1916. add to the Conference’s excitement. Among the activities planned are a Two previous O’Neill International keynote address by a well-known theater Conferences have been held at Tao House, professional; a tour of the recently Danville, CA with others held in Boston, rebuilt Provincetown Playhouse, and Bermuda, the Loire Valley of France, and several panel discussions, paper Provincetown MA – all locations where presentations covering facets of the playwright once lived. O’Neill’s life and forces that shaped his O’Neillians from far corners of the globe Most of the 2011 conference events will work; and a tour of O’Neill’s New York will gather in New York early this take place in Greenwich Village, and on “haunts” put together by biographers summer for the 8 th International Eugene campus at New York University. Barbara and Arthur Gelb. O’Neill Conference. Registration is $200 for O’Neill Society A highlight of the conference will be the members, and $235 for non-members; and Sponsored by the Eugene O’Neill Medallion Awards Banquet , with $90 for graduate students. Details and Society, over 100 scholars and others recognition give to three long-time conference registration is available on the interested in O’Neill and his works will O’Neill luminaries: director Robert Falls, Society’s website: come together June 22-26 in the actor Brian Dennehy, and our own www.eugeneoneillsociety.org . Greenwich Village area where O’Neill Dianne Schinnerer, past president of the and his colleagues began the Province- Eugene O’Neill Foundation, and long- town Playhouse at the center of the early time secretary of the O’Neill Society. 20 th century Bohemian culture. SHANGHAI GOVERNMENT HONORS the Vice Mayor of Shanghai Municipal Government, the Secretary General of the People’s Association for ‘FATHER OF AMERICAN DRAMA’ Friendship with Foreign Countries, and the director of the Shanghai Theater Academy. The ceremony there In late 1928, Eugene O’Neill and his future wife Carlotta Monterey received extensive press and television coverage. sailed to the Far East, and spent time in Shanghai. It was not a The O’Neill sculpture is one of 19 sculptures of different particularly happy time for O’Neill, who suffered from sunstroke during playwrights that have been commissioned for Shanghai’s his time there. Theater Way project. The Vice President of the A much more pleasant event occurred for the Nobel Prize winning Shanghai Theatre Academy told Hair “We feel that your playwright in 2010 when the Shanghai Government honored O’Neill as (sculpture) is the only one which captures the soul of the the “Father of American Drama” with the placement of a commissioned playwright.” sculpture on Theater Way, part of a large development project in Jon Hair has had thirty major sculpture commissions since central Shanghai. 1999 for public agencies, corporate and private This recognition is another example of how important O’Neill and his collections. He majored in Fine Arts at Ohio State plays are around the world. His impact on the evolution of drama in the Universality and the Columbus College of Art and Design. United States is well documented, and his plays continue to be The O’Neill sculpture was Hair’s second commission in produced frequently throughout Europe and Asia. O’Neill moved China. America drama from its nineteenth century melodramatic and “stagy” past, into a whole new genre of realism that has influenced American playwrights ever since. Chosen for the bronze commission by the City of Shanghai was Jon Hair, a noted American sculptor whose studio is in Cornelius, North Carolina, near Charlotte. Hair has received many commissions over the years including the monumental , including the monumental 35’ bronze and steel globe, “Olympic Strength” at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Hair and his family were invited to the dedication ceremony as guests of the City of Shanghai. The dedication speech was provided by a representative of the U.S. Consulate. The ceremony was attended by 2 SPRING 20111 Twentieth Anniversary of Student Days Attracts Students From Sixteen Bay Area High Schools Magic happens in the Old Barn at the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, when aspiring students come with a passion for the arts, ready to learn from professionals in their chosen fields. This year marked the 20 th anniversary of the Student Days Program sponsored by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation in partnership with the National Park Service. The program welcomes students to Tao House for explorations in drama, art, photography, and writing.
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