Eugene O'Neill Foundation

Great news for our local community! Hope to see you at tao House soon.

Bay Area high school actors and playwrights are invited to apply for our upcoming virtual FREE one-day workshop! Join us for Student Day 2021, with local instructors and organized but the Eugene O'Neill Foundation, Tao House. www.eugenoenill.org

Calling all Bay Area high school actors and playwrights! Apply now for our FREE one-day virtual Student Day scheduled for March 27. Online application and tons of info here: http://www.eugeneoneill.org/event/virtual-student-day-2021/

EONF Artistic Director Eric Fraisher Hayes introduces our new short film series "The Ghosts of Tao House". This series will explore the deep and haunting connections between Eugene O’Neill’s imagination and Tao House, the place he saw as his last harbor and home. https://youtu.be/h6NdDfzz8WQ

We are so fortunate to work in partnership with the Eugene O'Neill Historic Site in Danville, CA. A plethora of wildlife can be seen around Tao House and the local trails, especially during these beautiful sunny days in January!

Check out our most recent newsletter, and see what we've been up to these last months, and what we have in store for 2021. Go to www.eugeneoneill.org for more, and http://www.eugeneoneill.org/newsletters/ to read the entire newsletter.

Calling Bay Area artists: Apply for a chance to work in a serene, safe and secluded spot at Tao House, Danville, in the one-time home of Eugene O'Neill! More info at http://www.eugeneoneill.org/artist-in-residence-program/

What a fantastic photo from our partners, the National Park Service, Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site. We're all looking forward to hosting live productions in the Old Barn at Tao House next year, fingers crossed!

EONF Artistic Director Eric Fraisher Hayes has made a short video celebrating Eugene O'Neill's birthday. https://youtu.be/dXgZyizT "I hope it captures the drama and the ironic worldview that I find in so many of his plays," says Hayes.... Join a birthday party for Eugene O’Neill TODAY, October 16, 5:00-7:00 pm A Covid-safe pop-up event in front of Cottage Jewel Antiques 391 Hartz Ave., Danville Remarks by Mayor Karen Stepper, cupcakes and a chance to win amazing gifts, including a handmade acorn cottage by folk artist Melissa Terecke!! Plus a $1.00 off token for beverage or food at nearby Auburn Lounge... Awesome Raffle Prizes!

O'Neill's one-act play, "Recklessness" is now available for all to see at www.eugeneoneill.org. Besides watching this play, our website has several videos featuring our Lost Plays actors, and many discussions of the plays by eminent O'Neill scholars. We encourage you to join us for our final premiere, "Abortion", this Saturday, October 17, at 5pm PDT!... Register on our website www.eugeneoneill.org Each of our premieres will feature a live post-show discussion with Artistic Director Eric Fraisher Hayes, and our Lost Play actors!

Friends and Members of the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, join us in a birthday party for Eugene O’Neill: Friday, October 16, 5:00-7:00 pm A Covid-safe pop-up event in front of Cottage Jewel Antiques 391 Hartz Ave., Danville... Remarks by Mayor Karen Stepper, cupcakes and a chance to win amazing gifts, including a handmade acorn cottage by folk artist Melissa Terecke Plus a $1.00 off token for beverage or food at nearby Auburn Lounge

Over the last month, we have collected short videos from eminent O’Neill scholars sharing their thoughts on the three Lost Plays we are presenting this month. We are excited to announce that we have added a scholars’ page to our website, where you can learn more about these early one-act plays from a group of distinguished experts. http://www.eugeneoneill.org/oneill-scholars/ As an introduction to this new feature, Steven F. Bloom discusses themes in these early O’Neill plays, and their effect on the American Theatre: https://youtu.be/C74B76s5kTg

Eugene O’Neill’s "The Web" now available for viewing on our homepage at www.EugeneOneill.org!

Eugene O’Neill’s "The Web" Now Available for Viewing on our homepage at www.EugeneOneill.org Thank you to our large Zoom audience who joined us for the first of our three "Lost Plays" premieres yesterday! We are happy to announce that Eugene O’Neill’s "The Web" is now available for all to see o our website. In addition to viewing this play, our website has numerous videos featuring our Lost Plays actors, and later this week, we will begin posting short videos from eminent O’Neill scholars discuss our Lost Plays series. We encourage you to join us for our next premiere, "Recklessness" next Saturday, October 10, at 5pm PDT. REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZMudOusrT8sEtLh0Ra3ZT4QQGa1LQgPR

ANNOUNCING: "LOST PLAYS" NOW FOUND! REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us//tZMudOusrT8sEtLh0Ra3ZT4QQGa1LQgPR You can register for our three Zoom premieres of the Lost Plays. Each of our premieres will feature a live post-show discussion with Artistic Director Eric Fraisher Hayes, and our "Lost Plays" actors. If you are unable to attend these three dates, not to worry; 48 hours after each of our premieres, we will be posting our plays to YouTube and a link will appear on ou...r homepage. THE WEB, SAT., OCT. 3, 5:00PM PDT RECKLESSNESS, SAT., OCT. 10, 5:00PM PDT ABORTION, SAT., OCT. 17, 5:00PM PDT

Many of our Lost Plays actors have performed at Tao House in the past, and describe it as 'marvelous', 'magical' and "something special". Find out in our video what makes this experience unique https://youtu.be/Rn8z5MkKLe0 Join us online for the Lost Plays, three one-acts from O’Neill’s early career: The Web, Recklessness, and Abortion on Oct 3, 10 and 17 at 5:00pm PDT... Check our website for registration details! www.eugeneoneill.org

Though there have been fewer human visitors to Eugene O'Neill NHS over these last months, the wild things that call this place their home have been showing them...selves regularly. In the past week alone, we've spotted coyotes, deer, wild turkeys, turkey vultures, red-tailed and Cooper's hawks, and this curious little California quail perched in the bushes right outside Headquarters! While we're waiting to be able to offer tours of Tao House-- keep checking this page for updates!-- our grounds are still open to hiking and picnicking. Why not walk up and see what you can see for yourself? (Image description: a California quail seen through binoculars in green vegetation with trees in the background. NPS photo by Altman Studeny.)

Every year as part of the Eugene O’Neill Festival, we co-host a hike with East Bay Regional Park District and the Eugene O’Neill Foundation. This year, with the... particulars of COVID-19 making an in-person ranger-led hike impractical, we have created a virtual hike to accompany the Virtual Gene event which will be on-going throughout this summer and fall. All of the content in this album can also be accessed using the Interactive Google Map found at: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit Grab a mask, get with your social bubble, and come with us to Tao House: approximately four miles one way with an elevation gain of 337 feet (See map below). Rangers will be sharing the cultural and environmental history along our route through a variety of thought-provoking facts and questions, beautiful photos, and engaging videos all contained in this guide. "Happiness hates the timid!" said O'Neill, so why not go on an adventure? See you at the top! National Park Service thanks Robert Rothgery for filming and editing our video. https://www.youtube.com/playlist

Thank you to our wonderful partner the Eugene O'Neill Historic Site for posting such a fitting and meaningful recognition of the women who were instrumental to our Foundation's past. What a legacy! Linda Best also needs recognition, as she was an original board member and has worked in different ways for the foundation as a board member, board president and in many capacities ever since, most recently heading up their strategic planning committee, and as a member of the Artist in Residence Committee. Thank you to all for their efforts over the many years, and also to the women of the National Park Service!

In honor of the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we wanted to share the story of a woman significant to the playwright’s Tao House years: Gene’s third w...ife Carlotta Monterey: Carlotta was thirty-one when the 19th Amendment was ratified. At the time, she was making her own way in the world as an actress. As a young woman, she traveled to London to study with Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and, in 1922, would perform in the first Broadway production of O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape. In the years the O'Neills lived at Tao House, Carlotta was a secret motor behind the work of the playwright. Though her name does not appear on the front of the Tao House plays, the seemingly endless drafts and revisions of those works written here were all typed by her patient hands. We find Eugene’s recognition of her efforts, more often than not, between the book covers such as in the inscription that he made To Carlotta- with our production birth pangs still upon usthis OUR childwith my love forever! on her copy of Ah! Wilderness. As the executor of O’Neill’s will, Carlotta saw the value of having Long Days Journey Into Night released, and as O’Neill’s star began to fade toward the end of his career and after his death, it was through the persistence of Carlotta that their work would receive its later critical reevaluation and not be in vain. Photo Courtesy of Eugene O'Neill NHS EUON2356