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Joe Salvatore

JOE SALVATORE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Joe Salvatore's original plays and performance pieces include open heart, You Know, "someone's in the kitchen with dinah", Homage to Edvard Munch, nsa, transfigured (with Julie Marie Myatt), That's Not How You Do It, full of grace. . . (James Baldwin Playwriting Award) empty, fag/hag (FringeNYC 2000 with Kate Nugent), and At Wit's End: You Are Here (also with Kate Nugent). His play III received the 2008 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award for Outstanding Play and is published in Best American Short Plays 2008-2009 (Applause). Joe is currently working on a new devised play, Project | Hope, commissioned by the Department of Theater at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. The play will premiere in April 2012 as part of a series of exhibitions and performances about and inspired by violins recovered from the Holocaust. These 18 violins, known as "Violins of Hope," were first played publicly in 2008 in Jerusalem, and they are making their first North American appearance in a concert to be played at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. Joe's work as a director has been seen at the Provincetown Playhouse, the Lincoln Center Director's Lab, LAByrinth Theater Company's Barn Series, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, New WORLD Theater, the Del Corazon Festival, INROADS: The Americas, Jump-Start Performance Space, Santa Fe Stages, NYU, and UMASS. Joe teaches in the Program in Educational Theatre at New York University's Steinhardt School. MFA in Theater (Dramaturgy/Directing), University of Massachusetts at Amherst; BA in History, University of Delaware; Member, Lincoln Center Directors Lab.

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below is a list of Joe Salvatore's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         At Wit's End: You Are Here         Empty         Fag/Hag         Full Of Grace         Homage To Edvard Munch         III         Mindlynes         NSA         open heart         Someone's In the Kitchen With Dinah         That's Not How To Do It         Transfigured         You Are Here         You Know

At Wit's End: You Are Here

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Written by Joe Salvatore And Kate Nugent

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Philadelphia Fring Festival    2001

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Empty

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Robinson Dance Lab Unc, Charlott, Nc    2005

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Fag/Hag

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Straight women and gay men

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Ape Performance Space, Northampton, Ma    1999

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Gay, full length

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Full Of Grace

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Staged Reading At Hallie Flanagan Theatre, Smith College, Northampton, Ma    1998

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Homage To Edvard Munch

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Ples Hall Black Box Theatre, New York    2007

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III

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A real life, all-male menage-a-trois (1927-1943) between the photographer George Platt Lynes and one of the great artistic couples of the 20th century: writer Glenway Wescott and MOMA curator Monroe Wheeler. Never an even split, always emotionally charged. www.threetheplay.com 1h 40m, Manhattan, New York Drama, Performance Art
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1h 40m, Drama, Performance Art. - - Gay/Lesbian, historical characters

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Mindlynes

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Inspired by the photographs of George Platt Lynes

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Brooklyn Arts Exchange, New York    2002

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NSA

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Rand Theater, Amhurst, Ma    2007

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open heart

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What's it like in a gay relationship that allows for outside sexual partners? Find out through the actual words of men who shared their personal stories and thoughts on monogamy, fidelity, sex, and open relationships.

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The First Floor Theatre @ La Mama    19 Aug 2010

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1h 40m Gay, theme/character, full length

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Someone's In the Kitchen With Dinah

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The Hall, Wenonah, New Jersey    2008

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That's Not How To Do It

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Rand Theater, Amhurst, Ma    2003

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Transfigured

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Homophobic hazing in a prep school

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Written by Joe Salvatore And Julie Marie Myatt

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Ples Hall Black Box Theatre, New York    2005

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You Are Here

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Written by Joe Salvatore And Kate Nugent

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You Know

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