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John Dapolito

JOHN DAPOLITO

  
Nationality:    USA
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JOHN DAPOLITO (Playwright, Director & Teacher) His plays: Killer Midgets, Baptism by Fire, An Act of Kindness, and Augies Ring have all been produced on both coasts. His Screenplay: When Tough Guys Were King (co-authored with Dominik Tiefenthaler) is based on the video testimony and recordings of his estranged father, August Dapolito, a native of Jersey City who struggled with heroin addiction for 25 years, and eventually lost his life to AIDS in 1993. As a director, John has directed all of his own plays several times. As well as Neil LaButes Romance. Brian Giancis Lets Kill Grandma This Christmas and Ralph Papes Soap Opera. Other Notables: John is the founder of Actors! Where Are You Going? a revolutionary new approach to acting using psychological profiling techniques to illicit the actors A-Game Niche. He is a professional acting teacher as well; his Master Class for the Working Actor has been an advanced scene study class for some of New Yorks finest actors since 2003. On the Personal: John grew up guided and daily quizzed by his grandfather who was a big film buff; his love of acting, art, and cinema he owes to Popa.

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         Act of Kindness, An         Augie's Ring         Baptism By Fire         Killer Midgets

Act of Kindness, An

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Augie's Ring

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a down-and-out neighborhood legend drowns himself in isolation and booze at a local pub, only to encounter his latest and a most unlikely challenger.
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Three writers from Jersey City, Greenwich Village, And Bay Ridge, Brooklyn find out they have more in common than their passion for writing And their Italian American heritage. these "Men Without Myth" scribe their father's wounds, in this laughable, Dramatic, And sometimes intense evening of One Act plays by John Dapolito, Charles Messina, And Robert Nicotra.

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the Team, NY, USA >>>    03 Jun 2010

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Baptism By Fire

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a story about a family secret coming to light. a troubled playwright/director turns to his ex-con Father for guidance, only to find his New age ideologies and dark past confronted in this blue-collar Drama on manhood.

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Studio Dante, Ny    May 2004

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Killer Midgets

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Beckett meets Tarantino in this existentially absurd play about hand-gun violence in America.

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Pelican Studios, New York    Apr 2001

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absurd play 103 min

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