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GINA GIONFRIDDO |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency CA |
Gina Gionfriddo has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Lucille Lortel Fellowship, and a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship. Her work includes After Ashley (Vineyard Theatre in New York and Actors Theatre of Louisville);U.S. Drag (Clubbed Thumb in New York and Connecticut Rep; published by Smith & Kraus in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002), and Guinevere (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference).
Plays by Gina Gionfriddo
After Ashley | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #13594 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | a blisteringly funny and deeply affecting story about a teenage boy navigating the joys and terrors of life-all through the distorting prism of a media firestorm. When a family tragedy deals the Hammond family a dose of dubious celebrity, Justin finds himself paralyzed, unable to fully grieve or grow up. The only bright spot is a girl, only Justin can't decide if she's a saving angel or a self-interested groupie. In a world as weird as this one, she might just be both. | |||||
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America's Got Tragedy | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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 | #96434 | |||
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Genre: | Short play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | On the new reality television programme "America's Got Tragedy" a dead soldier competes with a pop starlet | |||||
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Becky Shaw | ||
| 1st Produced: | Second Stage Theatre | Jan 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Methuen Drama, London (2011) >>> | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408147016 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61059 | |||
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Genre: | comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | This play debuted at the Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays brings together all eleven scripts from the 2008 Humana Festival of New American Plays, the 32nd annual cycle of world premiere productions staged at Actors Theatre of Louisville. The seven full-length plays and four ten-minute plays represent an exceptional array of work by some of the most exciting new voices in American theatre | |||||
| Becky Shaw is an amusing and cleverly constructed comedy about ambition, the cost of being truthful, and the perils of a blind date. The fast and funny dialogue navigates between five distinctively perverse and disingenuously dysfunctional characters. The plot is as follows: from the moment that Becky arrives overdressed for her blind date with straight-talking Max, it's clear the evening won't go to plan. In the immediate fallout, Becky becomes an object of devotion for her boss Andrew, who appears to have a fetish for vulnerable women. In turn Andrew's wife Suzanna turns to her step-brother Max for comfort, and their mutual desire begins to resurface. Gina Gionfriddo's masterful play is a biting American comedy with sharp, witty dialogue and a carefully crafted yet unforced story arc. Character-driven, Becky Shaw is a comic tale of tangled love lives and a subtle but acerbic comedy of manners. | |||||
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Guinevere | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2001 | |||||
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 | #13595 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Safe | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51220 | |||
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Genre: | 5-10 min Comedy/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 female | |||||
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Synopsis: | A woman finds that no support group can end the fear that her cancer will come back. This piece is part of Trepidation Nation, an anthology of short plays. To perform this piece independently, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform this piece as part of the full-length collection, go to Trepidation Nation.) | |||||
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Squalor | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in 2008: The Best Ten-Minute Plays 3 or More Actors, Smith & Kraus, (2009) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1575257105 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #96435 | |||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Trepidation Nation | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51221 | |||
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Genre: | 80-100 min Drama/Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 11 | Female | 12 | ||
Parts other: | 11 males, 12 females (4-23 actors possible) | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | We all have instinctive fears -- but what if a fear becomes inexplicable, illogical, and just plain weird? Then you're dealing with a phobia, one of those most extreme and fascinating of terrors. Actors Theatre of Louisville asked 16 frighteningly creative playwrights to find inspiration in real phobias, and the resulting collection of pieces might prove that not only is fear humankind's oldest emotion, but it's also one of our silliest, most serious, and stage-worthy. To perform the entire collection, click "Add to Shopping Cart" above. To perform an individual piece independently, click on its title below: | |||||
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US Drag | ||
| 1st Produced: | Connecticut Repertory Company | 2002 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2111-1 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62155 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | doubling | |||||
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Synopsis: | Two young women in Manhattan seek love and happiness, but they'll settle for rent money. Along the way, they volunteer for a community advocacy group called SAFE ( Stay Away From Ed ) named for an elusive serial attacker terrorizing the city. (There's a hefty reward for his capture. . .) Their new circle of friends includes their ruthless, socially stunted roommate; the celebrated author of a fictional memoir; a lonely man who feels a kinship with crime victims; and a mousy Ed survivor, reveling in her fifteen minutes of dubious fame. Everybody is looking for salvation in the arms of another in a group where no one has very much to give. And who is this Ed anyway? No one's ever seen his face, and everyone onstage is beginning to act eerily Ed-like". . . | |||||
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