Artists In Residence Chosen For Eugene O'Neill Foundation

DANVILLE, CA — The Eugene O'Neill Foundation has selected four fellows to serve as artists in residence this year at Danville's Tao House.

The Tao House at the Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in Danville was where O'Neill, a famous playwright, lived with his wife Carlotta from 1937 to 1944. The four fellows will work there and live nearby at the foundation's expense, as DanvilleSanRamon.com first reported.

According to the foundation, this year's fellows are: Erin K. Considine, an actress-turned playwright who plans to complete "The Firefly Plays" about a half-Latino family working through their mother's Alzheimer's; Paul Kruse, an Austin-based playwright working on "Somewhere Else" about the experience of a gay boy growing up in the rural Midwest; Tira Palmquist, a Southern California playwright working on "The Body's Midnight" about disappearing in dementia and disappearing during an unplanned road trip; and Dan Venning, a theatre and English professor at Union College in New York, who will research and write about O'Neill's first Pultizer Prizes.

The program is open to playwrights, scholars and performing art critics, according to the foundation. Fellows have access to O'Neill's manuscripts and other materials in the Tao House library.

Residencies may live in Danville anywhere from a week to a month between April 1 and October 31, according to the foundation.

Read more about the program here.