Eugene O'Neill Theater Center

Moved to Chicago for a year before I got an agent.

I went to the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill in Connecticut, the Eugene O'Neill Center, for three summers in a row working on plays that I'd worked on at Iowa.

It's kind of crazy.

Really lucky.

But I made it work because I went abroad three times and I never left the country.

I went to the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, National Theater Institute.

It was the best semester of my college experience.

It's what I thought college would be.

I remember being...

I, I studied at a bunch of different places, and one of them was, uh, um, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut, and that was one of the many places I was at.

And there was a guy, he literally said to us, "If you're fat, do radio."

radio."Fuck.

But I think my favorite moments are the moments of real connection that I have made with people.

And one of my favorites, and this is one of my more personal ones, is years ago I was doing a program at the O'Neill Theater Center.

And there were a bunch of us participating.

It was a performance-based program.

I didn't really know anybody.

And at the end of the day, everyone would go to this little building that was on the O'Neill kind of campus.

If you don't know the O'Neill Theater Center, it's way out in the wilds of Connecticut.

and uh it's like being on a little farm for a week every you know all these little outbuildings and there was this little barn like place where everybody gathered at the end of the day and they'd hang out and they'd talk and maybe somebody would get up and sing with the piano or something and i that first night there i was terrified i didn't know anybody the instructors were all people who were well known in their fields and you know i was at the time living in dc and i i was just like oh god i don't know and so i kind of walked Walked in and I saw a corner in the back, this little table, and there was nobody in it.