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Robert Egan 'is Ojai': Longtime Playwrights Conference artistic director takes a final bow
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoRobert Egan, the outgoing artistic director and producer of Ojai Playwrights, pictured in Ojai. (Mel...
Ojai Playwrights Conference head to exit after festival
VC Star | Ventura County Star via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAfter 21 years, the head of the Ojai Playwright Conference says it's time for him to move on. Robert...
Artistic director of O'Neill's National Playwrights Conference steps down after 18 years
The Day, New London, Conn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 31—WATERFORD — Wendy C. Goldberg, the first female artistic director of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in its six decades, has left the post after ...
Playwright Deepak Kumar relished O'Neill conference
The Day, New London, Conn. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJul. 3—Of the roughly 1,300 dramatists who applied to the 2022 National Playwrights Conference at Waterford's Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, there are probably a few sufficiently confident that ...
Hartford Stage’s Melia Bensussen named interim director of world-renowned National Playwrights...
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMelia Bensussen has been given a second major Connecticut theater to run this year. Bensussen, who has been the artistic director of Hartford Stage since 2019, has been named the guest artistic ...
Theater for new year: two local festivals, Akron playwright Dayo-Aliya's developing work
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAs 2023 begins, several theater events in the region are celebrating the art form, including two...
Playwright August Wilson was ahead of his time. But would he have made it today?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAugust Wilson, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled the Black experience in...
Palm Beach Dramaworks names Jenny Connell Davis its resident playwright
The Palm Beach Post via Yahoo News· 11 months agoIn the heady days of the Elizabethan theater, acting companies such as The Chamberlain’s Men formed...
Meet the Charlotte woman championing opportunities for other Black playwrights
Charlotte Observer via Yahoo News· 3 months agoWhen Vickie L. Evans was 9 years old, she started writing as a way of escape. Growing up south of...
Ojai Playwrights Conference names new leader at a critical juncture for new play development — and...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJeremy B. Cohen will replace Robert Egan as the producing artistic director of Ojai Playwrights Conference. Egan was at the helm for more than 20 years.