O’Neill Conference to Develop New Plays by Auburn, Hunter

Variety: A new play by a Pulitzer winner and another by a fast-rising up-and-comer are among the brewing works tapped for development as part of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. The latest from David Auburn (“Lost Lake”), who picked up the 2001 Pulitzer for his play “Proof,” and from Samuel D. Hunter (“A Great Wilderness”), whose “The Whale” earned raves in its Off Broadway run earlier this season, join the eight shows tapped for the O’Neill summer session from a roster of scribes that also includes Bekah Brunstetter and Jeff Augustin, among others.