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Frank Pugliese

FRANK PUGLIESE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Frank Pugliese. Some of Frank Pugliese's credits for the stage include: Kaos (New York Theatre Workshop); Aven'U Boys(Off-B'way, Obie Award); the King of Connecticut, the Talk, the Alarm (all with Naked Angels); Hope is the Thing with Feathers, Late Night -- Early Morning(the Drama Dept.); the Crazy Girl (NY Stage and Film, Gloucester Stage). His film credits include: Born to Run (Fox);Infamous (Hart-Sharp, HBO); Shot in the Heart (directed by Agineszka Holland, produced by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana). His television credits include:Night of the Living Dead, Homicide(WGA Award); Love and Blood, Fallen Angels (Cable Ace Award Nomination). Mr. Pugliese has directed numerous Off-Broadway productions and is a former Artistic Director of Naked Angels. He won the Forbes Herman award for playwriting. He was honored by New York University's Tisch School of the Arts as their outstanding alumni in the field. Mr. Pugliese is a consultant for the Cherry Lane Mentor Program. He teaches playwriting and screenwriting at Columbia University and the New School. He is a proud member of Naked Angels and the Drama Dept.

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

         "Hope" Is the Thing With Feathers         Aven'u Boys         Kaos         Late Night Early Morning         Snuff         Summer Winds, The         Talk, The

"Hope" Is the Thing With Feathers

Synopsis:
the title of Frank Pugliese's difficult but rewarding new play, HOPE" IS the THING WITH FEAtheRS, is taken from an Emily Dickinson poem. the play, too, by the time it is through, is an ode to hope. It is also very much a poem in Dramatic form, a poem that baffles at first, and strains the mind. Perhaps, for some, the theater is never supposed to be difficult, but for those whose attention can hold under such challenging conditions, the reward is considerable. For this play is a ninety-minute jigsaw puzzle whose pieces, seemingly unrelated, gradually come together and by the end, the picture is in focus and complete. . . .All these people, then, are in midst of making decisions about their lives, present and future. In one way or another, each is in despair. At play's end, they make their decisions, perhaps on the basis that `love is not the opposite of hatehope is.' By that time, having been honored with patience and attention, Mr Pugliese's play becomes most rewarding. . .
- Martin Gottfried, New York Law journal

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1st Produced:
The Drama Department, New York    

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1st Published:
in Plays by Frank Pugliese, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Aven'u Boys

Synopsis:
AVEN'U BOYS is not for those with a low tolerance for verbal and visual violence, but it can be enthusiastically recommended to anyone who wants to step into a fever dream of urban America 1993, as searingly realized by a new and gifted 29-year-old playwright named Frank Pugliese. . .. his gripping style, in which fragmented dialogue and incidents seem to slice through the night like switch blades, casts its own disturbing spell. the playwright is less interested in drawing pat conclusions than in jolting the audience into a world it might ordinarily ignore. . .. Such is the tragic context of AVEN'U BOYS that these battered women seem the last, best hope for salvation in a city poised for civil war.
- Frank Rich, the New York Times

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1st Produced:
John Houseman Theater, New York    

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1st Published:
in Plays by Frank Pugliese, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Kaos

Synopsis:
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Based on Luigi Pirandello

1st Produced:
New York Theatre Workshop     2006

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Male:  9            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Late Night Early Morning

Synopsis:
A janitor at the World Trade Centre

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1st Produced:
Town Hall, New York     2002

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Snuff

Synopsis:
Fred went from a career of editing porn films to editing an epic, action-packed blockbuster. But none of his past projects can prepare him for the proposition his coworker is about to offer him: the chance to make a fortune working in the most taboo genre in the film world.

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1st Produced:
Naked Angels (New York, NY, United States)     1990

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
10 min Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  2 males

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Summer Winds, The

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
Naked Angels, New York    

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1st Published:
in Plays by Frank Pugliese, Broadway Play Publishing Inc, NY,    -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 actors, or as many as 8

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Talk, The

Synopsis:
Four brothers return home for the funeral of their mother and discover family history they knew nothing about

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1st Produced:
Cherry Lane Theatre, New York     2008

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