Wendy Goldberg, who directed “Doubt” for Playhouse in the Park (continuing through April 4), has a day job as artistic director of the National Playwright Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Connecticut.

Every summer it’s plays, plays and more plays, and most of the year, when Goldberg as freelance directing, she takes her makeshift literary office with her.

Her best advice to new playwrights: “You have to write what’s in your heart. What’s the story you have to tell? And find someplace you can go for feedback! Playwriting is not a solitary art form! Get the feedback, listen, learn – and stick to your guns.”

Goldberg points to Sarah Ruhl (Playhouse produced her “The Clean House” and nowher “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” is playing in New York), Adam Bock, Mark Schultz and Deb Laufer (you’ll hear from her soon) as the talents to watch today.

 

Goldberg crows that nine recent O’Neill plays are enjoying world premieres and reports that this year’s O’Neill Center scripts will be announced soon, which is of significant interest to at least one local playwright, but we won’t say who.