One of the 900 things that’s great about the O’Neill is this dream design thing that they do, in which you get to chat with the resident designers about what the world of the play  might look like with a limitless budget. Nowadays you have a way better chance of having your play read than staged. In fact, you will most likely have your play read 10s of times, but never staged, so the staged reading becomes its own thing, a production in itself, and you weirdly make peace with the fact that the play may never fully happen. What stage directions to read when becomes its own art. But the O’Neill asks you to dream anyways, and then they do awesome sketch things and share them the night of your reading. See above some beautiful thoughts by the resident set designer Carolyn Mraz in which a play is a computer game is a play.