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OUR CAMPUS

The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Waterford, Connecticut campus is a collection of renovated 19th-century mansions, farmhouses, and barns overlooking the Long Island Sound. For over 60 years, the O'Neill has been a space of artistic exploration for some of the greatest theatrical luminaries, including August Wilson, Jeanine Tesori, Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Patrick Shanley, Celine Song, Michael R. Jackson, Tom Kitt, Sam Hunter, David Lindsay-Abaire, and so many more.

 

The historic campus boasts two indoor and two outdoor performance venues, two libraries, administrative offices, a cafeteria, and residences for students, staff, faculty, and artists. In 2014, the O’Neill completed a multimillion-dollar expansion that created new dormitory cottages, laundry facilities, dance studios, rehearsal rooms, and a state-of-the-art composition classroom.

 

As an NTI student, the O'Neill campus become your canvas and a space for creative risk-taking. You’ll stage scenes in traditional performance venues as well as unique spaces such as Blue Gene’s Pub and the living room of Aida & Nelson White House. You’ll have some rehearsal time in the Lloyd Richards Production Cottage practice rooms and then head over to pick up a new script from the Liebling-Wood Library. Then, you’ll talk over your next assignment while grabbing a snack from the Hammond Mansion cafeteria before using the iMacs in the Viertel Composition Studio to write a new song.

 

During free time, you can relax on Waterford Town Beach, which lies just behind the campus and is reachable by a short walk through the field, or socialize with friends in one of the indoor or outdoor common spaces.

 

To study at the O’Neill is to create theater on equal footing with the hundreds who have called this campus home. We can’t wait to welcome you!

CAMPUS MAP

Learn more about our facilities as you explore our campus map.

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Much of what we now take for granted in contemporary theater contains DNA that can be traced back to a green patch of land overlooking the Long Island Sound in Waterford, CT.

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The O'Neill: Transformation of Modern American Theater by Jeffrey Sweet. Published by Yale University Press 2014.

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