Eugene O Neill Travis Fellow in Residency








Carol Sherrill, hostess for this AIR event, with playwright,
 Hermann 


The Eugene O'Neill Foundation has created an Artist in Residence Program,named for the late Travis Boagard, proessor emeritus of the Dramatic Arts Department at Berkeley, and the O'Neill Foundation's first artistic director, and which  has secured funding for a 3 year pilot program in cooperation with NPS.  The first two awarded residents(AIR) arrived this May-June. The first, David Palmer, Professor of Philosophy, looked at the concept of Tragedy and Narcissism, in explaining O'Neill's obsession with his brother Jim, a "character" in his plays. (not pictured)

 With my election, to the Board, I 
was invited to meet the second Fellow, a playwright(and professor of playwrighting at the Univ of Kentucky)created a play about Eugene O'Neill in draft, during this residency in the working in the Trunk Room studio, and library and archives on site, and accomodation for room and board  at the San Damiano Retreat Center.  The goal is to create the opportunity to work in the solitude  which inspired O'Neill. 



A festive delicious buffet 
Carol and her husband Dr John Sherrill
in their Japanese garden landscaped yard 

Jeff Kennedy, President of the Eugene O'Neill Society 
Eric Fraiser Hayes Artistic director(right), and EONF Co President Gary Shaub and his wife,(center) and other board members on the terrace . 

Janet Roberts enjoying discussion with AIR, Herman Farrell  

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