 Works developed during that time have received productions on and off Broadway and in countless American regional theatres garnering Pulitzer Prizes, Tony Awards and other honors.Casey spent four seasons directing staged readings of new plays for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference where he worked under Lloyd Richards on scripts by playwrights including Joe DiPietro, Lee Blessing, Bill Bozzone, Joe Pintaro and Deborah Bailey.Two scripts he developed there, Jacob Aaron Estes' Mean Creek and Eric John Litra's The Nickel Children, went on to become feature films.