The O’Neill Studio is a project of Playwrights Theater of New York.

We are an independent professional Studio that has partnered with New York University and Yale University since 1998.

In its first decade, O’Neill’s plays have inspired new work by Yale student and alumni playwrights. Yale alumni actors and celebrated guest artists have performed the O’Neill plays and the new work they inspired. These performances have take place at the NYU Provincetown Playhouse as part of our O’Neill Festival, in which we have staged O’Neill’s first 17 works as part of a chronological series of his complete canon, 50 plays in all.

NY Times Coverage from our most recent Festival

In its second decade, we will strengthen our emphasis on the art of acting O’Neill.

Eugene O’Neill is America’s only Nobel Prize-winning playwright and winner of four Pulitzer Prizes. He is our premier playwright. The O’Neill Studio seeks to cultivate a vocabulary for the challenges of acting in his plays as put forth in The Studio’s Artistic Statement).

These challenges will be the focus of The O’Neill Forum for which Resident Artists will be engaged to perform excerpts from his works.

On November 2 at 7pm Tony Award honorees Marian Seldes and Brian Murray joined artistic director Stephen Kennedy Murphy at The Players Theater for a discussion on acting O’Neill. Click here for more information.