Hughie Adaptor, Director

During the year 2018, I worked with dramaturg William Davies King and three Bay Area actors to explore ways to work the rich text found in Eugene O’Neill’s stage directions into the action of the play. Ultimately, creating the device of a third character out of the stage directions yielded a re-imagined production of Eugene O’Neill’s one-act play. Our process consisted of a couple of week-long workshops, six weeks of rehearsal, two weeks of performances at the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site (Tao House), and a tour of Ireland, highlighted by an International debut at the Eugene O’Neill International Festival of Theatre in New Ross, Ireland.

To read the article about the process of adapting and directing Hughie, which was published in the Eugene O’Neill Review in 2019, click here to open the PDF.