Confab open for biz.(National Playwrights Conference)(Brief Article)

THE NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center has a towering stack of plays to sort through this year. This fall, the conference received scripts from about 800 hopeful playwrights for the summer 2006 conference--twice as many as the last two submission periods for the 40-year-old org.

One of the few prominent play development programs that accepts open submissions, the O'Neill kicked off the career of August Wilson when it accepted "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" in 1982, and hosted early versions of John Guare's "House of Blue ...

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