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JOSEPH GALLO |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
JOSEPH GALLO (Playwright) His play My Italy Story, which had its New York debut Off-Broadway at the 47th Street Theatre, and was nominated for the Gay Talese Literary Prize, was recently revived at Mile Square Theatre. His full-length plays include Warning: Adult Content (Theatre 54) and Staten Island (Circle Rep Lab), while his solo shows include Whizzy and The Jealousy Piece, both of which premiered in the American Living Room festival at HERE. He co-created, and wrote the text for two dance/theater pieces Tannhauser: A Dance Play and 80% of Love, both of which debuted in New York at the Obie award-winning Ice Factory Festival at the Ohio Theatre; the latter done in collaboration with company Rindfleisch, and subsequently transferred to the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. His work has additionally been seen on the stages of the Barrow Street Theatre, the Lark, Pearl Theater, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Penguin Rep, TheaterWorks, 12 Miles West, 78th Street Theatre, Waterfront Ensemble, Atlantic Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Delaware Stage Company, Seven Angels Theatre, Orlando Fringe Festival, Manhattan Class Company, the Kennedy Center, Bridge Theatre Company, and at both the Hudson Guild Theatre and Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Ohio University.
Plays by Joseph Gallo
My Italy Story | ||
| 1st Produced: | 47th Street Theatre, NY | 1997 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #70667 | |||
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Genre: | comedy drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Naomi Siegel, writing in the NEW YORK TIMES called the play ". . .a compelling page turner," while NEW YORK TIMES critic Lawrence Van Gelder said, "Anyone who has ever been part of a large family is bound to respond! Filled with humor and a gallery of vivid characters. . ." Peter Filichia wrote in the STAR-LEDGER that the play was "clever and entertaining," and noted, "Gallo is to be commended." And GANNETT NEWSPAPERS critic Jacques le Sourd added, "Author Joseph Gallo delivers the kind of emotional knockout we seldom get from more famous playwrights in bigger plays." | |||||
Synopsis: | Spurred by visits from his grandmother's ghost, and by pleas from his cousin Louie to help get the family back together, Thomas DaGato quits his job as a New York account executive and travels to the tiny Italian town of his ancestors - Vallata. It's not until he comes home, however, that he discovers a secret that unlocks his past. | |||||
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Star Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | Heyworth Theatre, Los Angeles | - - - | ||||
Company: | Circus Theatricals | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78246 | |||
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Genre: | Drama One act | |||||
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Synopsis: | An impressionistic adventure& - Backstage | |||||
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Tannhauser - The Play | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78247 | |||
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Two-Man Kidnapping Rule | ||
| 1st Produced: | The New Ohio Theatre, NY | 05 Nov 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #133560 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Two-Man Kidnapping Rule depicts one comical evening in the lives of three, 20-something-year-old suburban friends who find themselves at a crossroads. Jack, a former college football star, refuses to put away the memory of his ex-girlfriend, while Vincent, wants nothing more than to keep his friends in one place, and insists on helping his buddy by taking him out on the town. But by the time they pick up Seth, a conflicted straight arrow with a confession to make, old friends are suddenly squaring off over what male bonding truly means. Will Jack let go of the memories his ex-girlfriend left behind? Or is this the beginning of a whole new set of problems? | |||||
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Warning: Adult Content | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre 54 @ Shetler | 2008 | ||||
Company: | Bridge Theatre Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78249 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Dram | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | The playwright successfully creates an authentic portrayal of ordinary people confronted with unnerving news, engaging in dialogue that is fluid, natural and evolves on its own terms. Guilt is a human condition, and WARNING: ADULT CONTENT speaks to everyone who has the need to confess. Gallo facilitates this process with sensitivity and conviction in a way that is both thoroughly entertaining and thought provoking. - HI! DRAMA. | |||||
Synopsis: | In these days of interactive media and social networking, Warning: Adult Content chronicles the cost of accidental celebrity. From the anonymity of their Los Angeles home, Rick and Venus run the web's hottest online husband-and-wife porn site to help support his flailing artistic careers. Rick, an aspiring singer, tries to conceal his involvement, but when he is revealed, guilt compels him back East to the old neighborhood karaoke bar. Will his friends and family accept him for who he has become online? Or more importantly, can he accept himself? | |||||
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Ya Gotta Believe | ||
| 1st Produced: | 7th Inning Stretch | - - - | ||||
Company: | Mile Square Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78250 | |||
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Genre: | Drama Ten minute play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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