Variety reports that Goldberg will remain the artistic director of the Playwrights Conference through 2010. Golberg has been with the O'Neill Center since she was appointed in 2005. She previously served as the artistic associate of Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage.

Works developed at the O'Neill Center under the guidance of Goldberg have gone on to play the Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, 59E59th, and regionally at Denver Center Theater Company, Alliance Theater Company, Long Wharf, Woolly Mammoth, Florida Stage and Victory Gardens.

This season Goldberg will also direct Wendy Wasserstein's Third for Denver Center as well as a co-production of Doubt for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and Actors Theater of Louisville. She is currently represented with the world premiere of Mark Schultz's Deathbed Off-Broadway.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center was founded in 1964 and is based in Waterford, CT. Programs at the Center include the Puppetry Conference, Playwrights Conference, Critics Institute, Music Theater Conference and the National Theater Institute. The Monte Cristo Cottage, O'Neill's childhood home, is also owned and operated by the group.

For more information on the O'Neill Center, visit the website at www.TheONeill.org or call (860) 443 5378.