Past Productions
The Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House, in collaboration with the National Park Service, has produced O'Neill plays several times per year since 1997. Many performances take place in the Old Barn at Tao House, within sight of the study where O'Neill penned his most famous plays. Other performances are staged in downtown Danville, and in recent years, also in San Francisco, Boston, St. Louis, and Ireland for the O'Neill International Festival of Theatre. Scroll below for a full list of productions.
Our more recent productions are accompanied by educational videos, interviews, and engagement guides for those wishing to learn more about the plays. These resources can also be used in a classroom setting.
The Tao House Films of Welded and Beyond the Horizon can both streamed for free HERE
2024
January
Warnings Before Breakfast, adapted and dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes from O'Neill's Warnings and Before Breakfast
Festival 2024
Mourning Becomes Electra (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
2023
Spring
The First Man (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Festival 2023
Yellow Wallpaper 2.0, 2020 (Maisel), dir. Chloe Brosnan
"Anna Christie" (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
2022
January
Welded (O'Neill) dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Jan.)
Festival 2022
A Moon for the Misbegotten (O'Neill) dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
2021
Festival 2021
Beyond the Horizon (O'Neill) dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Beyond the Horizon, a Tao House Film
The Ghosts of Tao House, virtual recordings
Tiny Horizon Stories, virtual short stories
2020
O’Neill’s Lost Plays; The Web, Abortion, and Recklessness, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (virtual recordings)
2019
January
The Great God Brown (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Festival 2019
Long Day's Journey Into Night, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
Balclutha Sea Plays, Hyde Street Pier, SF.
The Second Girl (Ronan Noone)
2018
January
Days Without End (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Festival 2018
Hughie (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Blemie (Adapted Poem, Eric Fraisher Hayes)
All My Sons (Arthur Miller), dir. Patrick Russell
2017
A Touch of the Poet (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Festival)
The Playboy of the Western World (J. M. Synge)
Shell Shock (O’Neill), dir. Chloe Bronzan and
The Rescue (Creighton Smith), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Dynamo (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Jan.)
2016
The Emperor Jones (Festival)
Seascape (Edward Albee)
"N" (Adrienne Pender - Spring)
O’Neill: the Rhythms of His Soul (Written by Dan Cawthon. Based on The Eugene O’Neill Songbook by Travis Bogard), dir: Rachael Robinson (Jan.)
2015
Waiting for Lefty (Clifford Odets), dir. Chad Deverman
Golden Boy (Clifford Odets), dir. Phoebe Moyer
Hughie (O'Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes (Jan.)
Desire Under the Elms, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
2014
A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller), dir. Joy Carlin
El Paso Blue (Octavio Solis)
The Iceman Cometh, dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams)
2013
The Cherry Orchard (Anton Chekhov), dir. George Maguire
The Lady From the Sea (Henrik Ibsen), dir. Susannah Martin
"Anna Christie"
Chris Christopherson
More Stately Mansions (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
2012
Short scenes from PlayGround, SF, dir. Josy Miller
Exorcism (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Diff’rent (O’Neill), dir. Lois Grandi
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Ah, Wilderness!
The Straw (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
January 2011
Bound East for Cardiff (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
In the Zone (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
The Long Voyage Home (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Spring, 2010
Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill), dir. Soren Oliver
Track of the Cat (Graeme Maley), dir. Graeme Maley
Short Scenes from PlayGround, SF, dir. Josy Miller & Eric Fraisher Hayes
January 2010
A Touch of the Poet (O’Neill), dir. Eric Frasher Hayes
Spring, 2009
Born Tired (new play) Bevin Lew, dir. Bevin Lew
The Sniper (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
The Movie Man (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Shell Shock (O’Neill), dir. Eric Fraisher Hayes
Spring, 2008
Blood Mirage (new play) Jeremy Hargraves, dir. Michael Ward
Revelations (scenes from Anna Christie, Mourning Becomes Electra), dir. Michael Ward
Welded (O’Neill), dir. Josy Miller
Spring, 2007
This Is Not My Life (new play), Adam Sandel, dir. Michael Ward
Now I Ask You (O’Neill), dir. Daren A. Carollo
Spring, 2006
Pear Slices, (8 brief original plays) Pear Avenue Theatre, dir. Diane Tasca
The Typographer’s Dream (Bock), Encore Theatre Company, dir. Lisa Steindler
Spring, 2005
Overtures (Gerstenberg), dir. M. O’Neill
Before Breakfast (Eugene O’Neill), dir. M. O’Neill
Enemies (Boyce/Hapgood), dir. M. O’Neill
E.G.O: The Passions of Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (Morello), dir. Dan Cawthon
Spring, 2004
The Lonesome West (McDonagh), Namaste Theatre Company, dir. M. Uppendahl
Fog (O’Neill), dir. Lois Grandi
Thirst (O’Neill), dir. Lois Grandi
Recklessness (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Suppressed Desires (Glaspell and Cook), dir. Dan Cawthon
Spring, 2003
Into the Wake of the Moon—written and performed by Kurt Gravenhorst
The Great God Brown—Oakland Public Theatre, dir. Norman Gee
Spring, 2002
Hairy Ape (O’Neill)—Marin Theatre Company, dir. Lee Sankowich
Where the Cross is Made (O’Neill) – Namaste Theatre Company, dir. Mike Uppendahl
’Ile (O’Neill) -Namaste Theatre Company, dir. Mike Uppendahl
The Rope (O’Neill) -Namaste Theatre Company, dir. Mike Uppendahl
Spring, 2001
Servitude (O’Neill), dir. Tom Ross
Abortion (O’Neill), dir. Lois Grandi
Red Carnations (Hughes), dir. Lois Grandi
Bound East for Cardiff (Eugene O’Neill), dir. Andrea Gordon
In the Zone (O’Neill), dir. Andrea Gordon
Spring, 2000
Riders to the Sea (Synge), dir. Joy Carlin
Overtures (Gerstenberg), dir. Joy Carlin
Diff’rent (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Freedom (Reed), dir. Alan McElvey
Shell Shock (O’Neill), dir. Alan McElvey
Spring, 1999
Recklessness (O’Neill), dir. Jan Erlendson
Another Way Out (Langer), dir. Jan Erlendson
A Wife for a Life (O’Neill), dir. Nancy Carlin
Lovers—Winners (Friel), dir. Nancy Carlin
Welded (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Spring, 1998
’Ile (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Aria Da Capo (St. Vincent Millay), dir. Dan Cawthon
The Web (O’Neill), dir. Ed Hastings
Hello Out There (Saroyan), dir. Ed Hastings
Miss Julie (Strindberg), dir. Barbara Oliver
Spring, 1997
The Outside (Glaspell), dir. Joy Carlin
Trifles (Glaspell), dir. Joy Carlin
Fog (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
Thirst (O’Neill), dir. Dan Cawthon
The Emperor Jones (O’Neill), dir. Ed Hastings
Spring, 1996
Constancy (Neith Boyce), dir. Joy Carlin
Suppressed Desires (Glaspell and Cook), dir. Joy Carlin
Before Breakfast (O’Neill), dir. Barbara Oliver
My Heart’s in the Highlands (Saroyan), dir. Barbara Oliver
The Rope (O’Neill), dir. Ed Hastings
Where the Cross is Made (O’Neill), dir. Ed Hastings