Eugene O’Neill Theater Center to Receive 2010 Regional Theatre Tony Award

The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT. has won the 2010 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The honor will be presented at the Tony Awards ceremony on June 13 at Radio City Music Hall to be broadcast on CBS.

The center was founded in 1965 to focus on American playwrights. It is perhaps best known for its National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference, which are new work development programs offered each summer.

The Playwrights Conference, which is currently led by Wendy C. Goldberg, has helped to launch the careers of writers such as August Wilson, David Henry Hwang, Wendy Wasserstein, John Patrick Shanley and Paula Vogel, among others.

The Musical Conference, run by Paulette Haupt, has played a part in developing the Tony Award-winning Avenue Q and In the Heights, as well as the new musical Tales of the City, to be seen this season at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre.

Among the other programs at the O’Neill Center are a puppetry conference, a cabaret conference, the National Critics Institute and a summer workshop co-hosted with the Commercial Theater Institute.

For further information, visit: www.theoneill.org.