O'Neill requires new plays

The distribution window within the O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference is becoming open, and scribes can submit works well with consideration through March. 21. The annual summer season session within the O'Neill is probably the country's most prominent development showcases for completely new legit works and is probably the handful of allowing playwrights to submit scripts without any agent or other industry connections. About eight shows are frequently selected each year in the pool of 800-1,000 competitors, with lots of attracted on view distribution process (and a few by invitation). Participating conference authors get yourself a monthlong summer season residency within the O'Neill, located in Waterford, Conn., plus a stipend, housing, meals and transportation. Each play sometimes seems with the public -- by industry types searching in the wares -- in staged bloodstream pressure dimensions throughout the time from the month. The Playwrights Conference, founded in 1964 and presently introduced having a.n. Wendy C. Goldberg, has aided launch the careers of scribes including August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein and John Guare. One work seen recently within the conference, Molly Cruz Metzler's "Close-up Space," will land at Manhattan Theater Club later this season in the production toplined by David Hyde Pierce. The O'Neill also hosts a musical theater conference round the same time period since the playwrights session. This year tuner distribution will probably be recognized November. 1-12 ,. 1. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com