←Recommendations of The Ocean Thought Nothing

Really enjoyed reading this play. Bentley-Quinn is great at writing interesting characters and she especially does a great job of writing young people in this play in a way that feels honest and realistic.

I love this script so much. Kari Bentley-Quinn has a way with language and the way time is used in this piece is fantastic. I am a sucker for the characters Bentley-Quinn has given us. The palpable longing and the mystery at the heart of this piece make it all that more compelling. Thank you Kari Bentley-Quinn for this fantastic script! I can't wait to see it live.

Grief, regret, and hope painfully intertwined with the questions and longing of young people at the heart

A haunting mystery on the coast of Connecticut. Great balance of monologues, dialogue and time.

A moving look at loss and the power of the connections we make in a gripping mystery. Beautifully done.

A beautiful, aching, haunting piece that uses time and regret and hope and loss to weave a stunning story that never condescends to us or explains too much. This is a piece where we are allowed to hope against hope that magic is real, even though we know that it's likely nothing but hope that lets that prevail. Heartfelt and affecting, this would be a beautiful showcase for young actors in a tour de force story opportunity. I would love to see this staged, either as described or very, very simply. Wonderful.

An emotionally rich portrait of three young people, desperate to hold onto their connections to each other while yearning for something more. This is a play that feels like it exists within the tonal palate of the setting--the coast along the Long Island Sound--sometimes awash with vibrant color, and sometimes trapped in muted grays. I had the privilege of working with a group of high school actors on this play, and the result was stunningly beautiful. Highly recommended.

Beautifully-written play that is so well-inhabited by the characters of the place where they live and so well- imagined by the writer that we can actually believe the impossible. Wonderful work.

THE OCEAN THOUGHT NOTHING carries this haunting quality as it shifts backward and forward in time. Kari Bentley-Quinn has a mastery of dramatic timing. Her flashbacks are well placed and offer just as many questions as answers. By the play’s end, we are left off-kilter; uncertain if we are satisfied with what we have just witnessed, but prepared to face the unknown. #PlaywrightPlug

It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Kari Bentley-Quinn and their play The Ocean Thought Nothing as a finalist for our 2014 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.