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BETH WYNSTRA is associate professor of English and faculty director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching at Babson College. Beth teaches courses in dramatic literature, theater history, acting, and public speaking, and she regularly directs plays and musicals. Her book Vows, Veils, and Masks: The Performance of Marriage in the Plays of Eugene O’Neill (University of Iowa Press, Theater History and Culture Series) was published in 2023. Beth is proud to serve on the board of the Eugene O’Neill Society.

ERIC FRAISHER HAYES is the artistic director for the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, Tao House, where he specializes in reimagining and adapting O’Neill’s works. He has directed thirty-four of O’Neill’s fifty-one plays, including a feature film of Beyond the Horizon. His productions of “Anna Christie,” Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Shell Shock, Welded, and Hughie have been showcased at the Eugene O’Neill International Festival of Theatre in New Ross, Ireland. Eric holds an MFA in acting from the Theatre School, DePaul University, and has been a member of AEA since 2001.