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Dominic Finocchiaro

DOMINIC FINOCCHIARO

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Bret Adams Ltd  

Dominic Finocchiaro is a Brooklyn-based playwright, performer, and freelance dramaturg. His full-length plays include Astral Princess Saves Mankind, brother brother, complex, Exotic, The Found Dog Ribbon Dance, and The Lucky Ladies (someday you will be loved). His writing has been produced and developed around the country, including at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Lark Play Development Center, Portland Center Stage, the Flea Theater, the Amoralists, Pavement Group, Ugly Rhino, Pipeline Theatre Company, Spookfish Theatre, the Secret Theatre, Play on Words Productions, Bookshop Workshops, Hearth Gods, and the Motor Company, Dominic is a native of San Francisco, a graduate of Reed College, and is currently in the process of completing the MFA Playwriting program at Columbia University. He has also trained as a writer at the New School for Drama, the Kennedy Center, the Playwrights Foundation, and through the Pataphysics at The Flea Theater.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Astral Princess Saves Mankind         Brother Brother         Chicken Situation, The         Complex         Exotic         Found Dog Ribbon Dance, The         Like Trying To Count All Of the Drops Of Falling Rain         Lucky Ladies (someday you will be loved)         That Noise

Astral Princess Saves Mankind

Synopsis:
She is an alien and she looks like Barbie. A group of misfits have gathered in Antarctica pledging themselves to a guru. Someone is spotted sitting on a nearby mountain

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Rehearsed reading @ The Wild Project, New York    04 Aug 2012

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Comedy

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Brother Brother

Synopsis:
One brother is dead but neither of his siblings listen to him. Sam sells things his sister Amanda teaches yoga. They phone each other neither answers the phone

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Drama

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Chicken Situation, The

Synopsis:
Unemployment, unfulfilled dreams and chickens

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Short play

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Complex

Synopsis:
Tenants in a building complex are dying in gruesome ways

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Exotic

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Plans are hatched and money changes hands in a strip club

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Found Dog Ribbon Dance, The

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Like Trying To Count All Of the Drops Of Falling Rain

Synopsis:
Four young people must face the perils of romance in a modern world where love is nothing but a song lyric
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part of the White Box theatre Festival

1st Produced:
The Secret Theatre, NY    2009

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the Queens Players

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One act

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Lucky Ladies (someday you will be loved)

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The four female contestants in a reality dating show turn up at the television studio - but no crew has

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That Noise

Synopsis:
College is hard. On top of all the stats quizzes and awkward one-night stands, Jen and her roommates must also answer the age-old question: are those sounds coming from next door hot or homicidal? Are they listening to murder or just really good sex?

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The Samuel French staff would like to congratulate the 30 playwrights selected to participate in the 40th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival! Chosen from nearly fifteen-hundred submissions (a record breaking number) both in the U.S. and abroad, these 30 plays will be presented in New York from August 3  9, 2015. Out of these plays, six winners will be selected by the Samuel French, Inc. editorial staff to receive publication and licensing contracts.

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40th Annual Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, NY    03 Aug 2015

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