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MARY DIMINO
Nationality: USAemail: Click here to contact Website: Click here
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Mary Dimino, a familiar face on television, is the 2010 MaC award Winner for Outstanding Female Comedian. Mary also is a winner of the 2008 Gracie allen award presented by American Women in Radio and Television. The Gracie honors exemplary contributions of individuals who have encouraged the realistic and faceted portrayal of women in entertainment, commercials and featured programming. You may have seen her luminous smile on Comedy Central, VH-1, HBO's Chris Rock Show, sketches on Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien and in dozens of national commercials. Mary plays Connie, the Maid of Honor in Tony and Tina's Wedding, Polly on New York Undercover and appears in various other television and film roles. Her stand-up was featured on Comedy Central's SaST. She was the series studio warm-up act for The Graham Norton effect on Comedy Central and currently does interstitial stand-up for American Movie Classics Network. Mary is a contributing writer for various shows, including the award-winning PBS documentary "Fat: What No One is Telling You", in which she also had a starring role. Mary is a new playwright who has recently birthed the acclaimed SCaReD SKINNY: a one (hundred pound lighter) woman show which premiered in the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival. after achieving and maintaining a weight loss of 115 pounds, Mary "exemplifies the hard work people do to lose pounds and stay healthy." Weight is the defining battle of Mary's life and the "hysterical heart of her comedy", as noted by Meredith Vieria from NBC Today.
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below is a list of Mary Dimino's plays - click on a Play Title for more information
BIG DUMMY me & my old man Scared Skinny: A One (Hundred Pound Lighter) Woman ShowBIG DUMMY me & my old man
Synopsis:
Bright child. Simple father. They're best friends. Until she outgrows him at age eleven. Embarrassed by him, and herself. Realizing dad's brilliant. As is. Growing up smarter than your father in a funny, factory-working family from Queens. Come, simplify yourself.
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1st Produced:
The Steve & Marie Sgouros Theatre, New York Festival Fringe Aug 2013
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BIG DUMMY
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Solo Show Comedy
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Male: - Female: - Other: -
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Top of PageScared Skinny: A One (Hundred Pound Lighter) Woman Show
Synopsis:
SCaReD SKINNY is a one (hundred pound lighter) woman show about growing up fat, funny and afraid in an Italian family from Queens written and performed by 2010 MaC award Winner for Outstanding Female Comedian Mary Dimino. Fat kids playing with Quija Boards. Perverted Grandmothers. Mutant genitalia. Boyfriends trying to off themselves in Mister Softee Trucks. What in God's name? Weight was not the only thing she had to loose. Follow Mary's inspirational journey towards self-acceptance as she faces her fears and fat falls away. Come, laugh your fat off. What is unique and exciting about this play? SCaReD SKINNY is a significant show for our time because weight bias is the final frontier in a society that has made many inroads, but is still so lacking in the understanding of this thing called "fat." Obesity is the last accepted discrimination and it is the one prejudice that everyone has the potential to endure. What is it really like being an overweight woman in today's society? No play has ever answered the question quite like this before. SCaReD SKINNY exposes the playwright's soul and pierces through the myths about today's weight issues, blows the doors off the perpetuation of weight bias and lends new insight into a society that is desperately in need of a revolutionary perspective. Its take-away is this: ultimate victory over addiction, fear and everyone that has ever said, "You can't do that--you're too fat."
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Small Pond entertainment
1st Published:
Dreisbach Literary -
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Genre:
Solo Show Comedy
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Male: - Female: 1 Other: -
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