. In between, there were seasons dedicated to canonical American writers such as Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Neil Simon, as well as contemporary playwrights such as Lynn Nottage, Kia Corthron, and Pearl Cleage.
Though he acknowledges that the COVID shutdown had an impact on the decision, Scott notes, “It was getting harder to [continue] even before then. You know, these companies have lots of really young people who want to become part of the company. And as those young people age and get lives, they decide that they don’t necessarily want to work for nothing. It was getting harder to keep a core company together. We were starting to have some issues, I think even before COVID.
Having a model built around a different playwright every season meant that ensemble members might not be appropriate to cast that year. I remember talking to then-artistic director Anish Jethmalani, when the company was producing a season of works by Black American writer Cleage in 2007. Jethmalani acknowledged that they didn’t have enough Black members of the ensemble to cast in the shows, and so a lot of the Eclipse actors wouldn’t be used that season.
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