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Gina Gionfriddo

GINA GIONFRIDDO

  
Nationality:    USA
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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).

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

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         After Ashley         America's Got Tragedy         Becky Shaw         Guinevere         Rapture, Blister, Burn         Safe         Squalor         Trepidation Nation         US DRAG

After Ashley

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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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2007
Smith & Kraus, Inc. (after ashley in Humana Festival 2004: the Complete Plays   -

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Genre:
Dark Comedy Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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America's Got Tragedy

Synopsis:
On the new reality television programme "America's Got Tragedy" a dead soldier competes with a pop starlet

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Genre:
Short play

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Becky Shaw

Becky Shaw
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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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

1st Produced:
Second Stage Theatre
305 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036    Jan 2009

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1st Published:
Methuen Drama    978-1408147016

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Guinevere

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Rapture, Blister, Burn

Rapture, Blister, Burn
after grad school, Catherine and Gwen chose polar opposite paths. Catherine built a career as a rockstar academic, while Gwen built a home with her husband and children. Decades later, unfulfilled in polar opposite ways, each woman covets the others life, commencing a dangerous game of musical chairs - the prize being Gwens husband. With searing insight and trademark wit, Gina Gionfriddos comedy is an unflinching look at gender politics in the wake of 20th century feminist ideals.

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1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizons Mainstage
416 West 42nd Street, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10036    18 May 2012

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1st Published:
Playwrights Horizons
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rapture-blister-burn-9781472578570/   978-1472578570

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  1            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Safe

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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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
5-10 min Comedy/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  1 female

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Squalor

Squalor
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1st Produced:
-    2007

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1st Published:
in 2008: the Best Ten-Minute Plays 3 or More actors, Smith & Kraus, (2009)   978-1575257105

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Genre:
Ten Min

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Trepidation Nation

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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Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
80-100 min Drama/Comedy

Parts:
Male:  11            Female:  12            Other:  11 males, 12 females (4-23 actors possible)

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US DRAG

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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1st Produced:
Connecticut Repertory Company    2002

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY
in Women Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2002); Broadway Play Publishing (U.S. Drag forthcoming in Seven Different Plays: Volume 2, edited by Mac Wellman)   978-0822221111

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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