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David J Mauriello

DAVID J MAURIELLO

  (1936 - )
Nationality:    USA
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David J. Mauriello (born 21 Mar 1936) following a career in business and real estate, David J Mauriello turned his attention to writing for stage and film. He was awarded a fellowship by the Artists Foundation of Massachusetts for his screenplay FIREFLIES (orig title And Then I Saw the Fireflies) and was the winner of the Jane Chambers Memorial Gay Play Contest for COME IN FROM THE RAIN ( then titled BUT MOSTLY BECAUSE IT's RAINING) His plays TEN MINUTES TO TERROR and JUST SAY LOVE were both nominees in the best original script category by the Spotlight on the Arts Awards, Portsmouth, NH. JUST SAY LOVE was also nominated as best new play (small company) by the Independent Reviewers of New England. His ten minute play ONE GREAT BIG LIGHT has been a finalist in new play festivals and is included in the Eileen Heckert Senior Drama Archives at the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute at Columbus State University. THE FIRST LOVE LETTER was awarded third prize in a Montreal competition. FIREFLIES, stage version, was a finalist in the Firehouse Center New Play Festival in Newburyport, MA in 2007, where he was twice a finalist before with his short plays ONE GREAT BIG LIGHT and STILL LIFE WITH RED BALLOON. His plays have been produced in New England, California, Chicago and NYC while the film of JUST SAY LOVE for which he was Executive Producer, has screened in Gloucester and Salem MA. Portsmouth, NH, NYC, LA, Columbus, Ohio, Desert Springs and has appeared in film festivals in Philadelphia, Rochester NY, and Chicago. He is also the author of the book REMINDERS OF HOME, a collection of inspirational writings. In 2008 he co-founded Stagewright Films, a company dedicated to preserving stage plays as written for the stage on film. David is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, and serves on the Board of Directors of Players' Ring Theatre in Portsmouth NH.

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

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below is a list of David J Mauriello's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Body         Come In From the Rain         Curley - the Musical         Curse of the Monkey's Paw, The         Dead Ringer         Fireflies         First Love Letter, The         Gift Of The Magi, The         Homing Pigeons         Just Say Love         Nude in the Parlor         One Great Big Light         Passage of Time, A         Spirits Willing         Still Life With Red Balloon         Ten Minutes To Terror

Body

Synopsis:
Three young men, misfits from society, find refuge and bonding in their secret hideway, a basement office in a Los Angeles morgue. It is the early hours of July 5, 1962. They learn that Marilyn Monroe has just been found dead and that her body is in the coronor's examination room next to them. . .and the door has been left unlocked. The Sleeping Beauty fairy tale plays out in a unique and spellbinding way.

Notes:
referenced in the book The Immortal Marilyn by John DeVito and Frank Tropea.

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Players Ring, Portsmouth Nh    

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Come In From the Rain

Synopsis:
When handsome gay hustler Tom wakes up in Mike's apartment he won't believe Mike is a virgin and accuses Mike of playing games like most other "clients" he has encountered. Mike stands his ground and wants "something better" than gratuitous sex. Slowly each molds the other into being a whole person.

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Originally titled But Mostly Because It's Raining, "Rain" was the winner of the Jane Chambers Memorial International Gay Play Writing Contest Play in 1983. It has had several productions in NYC, one produced by John Glines at the Courtyard Theater titled How Many Tomorrows. Minor changes from the original have been made to bring the play into the present. The play, especially the original written before the "aids" era is in a sense a historical piece in its depiction of how difficult it was for some to admit being gay, let alone to "come out".

1st Produced:
Alley Theater     1983

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Genre:
Gay, full length drama

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Curley - the Musical

Synopsis:
From 1914 to 1949 James Michael Curley was the Mayor of Boston. This is his story

Notes:
Music by Robert Johnson; lyrics by Robert Johnson; Additional dialogue by David Mauriello; book by Frank Alcorn

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Genre:
Musical

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Male:  7            Female:  4            Other:  doubling

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Curse of the Monkey's Paw, The

Synopsis:
Using a petrified monkey's paw, said to have supernatural powers to grant three wishes a man and wife wish for money. Their wish is granted by the insurance money earned by the tragic death of their beloved son. The mother growing mad with grief seizes desperately on an idea; use the second wish to bring the son back from the dead no matter what the consequences. As some unseen thing scratches on their door to be let in the Father struggles with his wife to keep the door locked. She wins but before the door is opened the Father grabs the wizened paw and makes a third wish.

Notes:
Based on W. W. Jacobs short story The Monkey's Paw

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Players Ring, Portsmouth Nh    

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Genre:
Drama, horror

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Male:  4            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Dead Ringer

Synopsis:
Lovers who have been cheating on each other with the same person wait by that person's gravesite suspecting he may have been buried alive. In stead of a rope connected to a bell topside for the deceased to use if he wakes up, a cell phone was provided. When they realize it won't work in a dead zone, they begin digging.

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*an earlier era where steam power is used coupled with anachronistic technology

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Genre:
Comedy, steampunk*,10 minutes

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Fireflies

Synopsis:
When the responsibility of caring for his aging and ill mother falls to Peter, his partner Kevin assumes he will be enlisted to help. He discovers that Peter has lived a double life where his mother is concerned. Peter must now be honest with his mother or lose Kevin who sees Peter's silence as a betrayal of who they are.

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Fireflies began as a screenplay (And Then I Saw The Fireflies) which was awarded a fellowship by the Artists Foundation in Massachusetts. The stage adaption was a finalist in the 2007 Firehouse New Works Festival in Newburyport MA and was produced in 2008 by the Players Ring Portsmouth NH.

1st Produced:
Players Ring, Portsmouth, Nh     2008

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Genre:
Gay, full length drama

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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First Love Letter, The

Synopsis:
Michael and Joey's relationship has broken up because Joey cannot bring himself to tell his mother he is gay. As they sort through documents pertaining to jointly owned possessions, Mike finds the first love letter he wrote to Joey in which he proclaims his love. In a desperate attempt to save the relationship he reads it aloud to Joey's mother.

Notes:
Third place winner in Village Scene Productions, Playwrights Workshop, Montreal, CA

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Genre:
Drama, gay, 10minutes

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Gift Of The Magi, The

Synopsis:
O'Henry's CLASSIC CHRISTMAS story of love and self-sacrifice. Newly-weds DElla and Jim find that the only way to give each other the perfect gift is to sacrifice that which they most cherish.

Notes:
Book by David J. Mauriello; Lyrics and Music by Robert Johnson

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Genre:
full length musical

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  cast of six playing multiple roles, or full ensemble. Piano,or small musical combo

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Homing Pigeons

Synopsis:
Long estranged brothers, now elderly, embrace their past incestuous relationship

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Players Ring, Portsmouth, Nh    

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Genre:
Drama, gay 10 minutes

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Just Say Love

Synopsis:
Guy is a sensitive vegetarian artist studying Plato. Doug is a handsome straight construction worker. When they meet by chance it appears their relationship will be a 'bedroom only" affair,until that mysterious force called love steps in.

Notes:
Just Say Love (www.justsaylove.com) was nominated as best original play by the Spotlight on the Arts award in Portsmouth NH and as best new play (small company) by the Independent Reviewers of New England. It was filmed as written for the stage in 2008. Presently, only authorized film version available at www.stagewrightfilms.com

1st Produced:
Players Ring, Portsmouth, Nh     2005

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Genre:
Drama, gay,romance

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Nude in the Parlor

Synopsis:
An artist unveils his life size painting of a nude man, sans face, to two friends. One friend while remarking on what the model must be like discovers too late that the model is the other friend.

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Players Ring, Portsmouth, Nh    

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Genre:
Comedy, gay, ten minutes

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One Great Big Light

Synopsis:
Two strangers beset by challenging situations provide solace to each other.

Notes:
One Great Big Light has had productions at regional theaters. A finalist in the Firehouse New Works Festival Newburyport MA and included in the Eileen Heckart Senior Division Archives at Columbus State University.

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Players Ring, Portsmouth, Nh.    

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Genre:
Drama gay 10 minutes

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Passage of Time, A

Synopsis:
Mike and Joey planned to quit their jobs in Boston to run an inn in coastal Maine. When their parents and Joey's ageing aunt move in with them, plans are dramatically changed and three generations of values and traditions are shaken loose. Respect for one's self is the only solution but who has the courage to say what must be said.

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Spirits Willing

Synopsis:
Julio covets "Mother's" property. "Mother" is determined never to sell but covets money. Voluptuous Violette, with the help of her brother Nicola devises a plot to make a deal: mother gets a peek at Julio's phallus plus monthly payments as long as she lives. Instead of expiring as expected the old lady grows stronger. Obsessed with doing her in, Julio gets her addicted to brandy. The old lady dies. In his excitement Julio's heart gives out and we discover that Nicola is really Violette's secret lover. Spirits Willing is also available in a longer version in which the audience is let in on the machinations of Violette and Nicola. They lie that the mother has died bringing on Julio's stroke which leaves him paralyzed. Mother gleefully becomes his nurse. Violette having won the day, betrays Nicola for another lover, Nicola's widowed father.

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SPIRITS WILLING was inspired by the short story "The Little Cask" by Guy de Paussant. Publicity text has described it as a "deliciously wicked" recipe for great comedy: Take a lusty young woman, marry her to an older man who, shall we say is well endowed, mix in a handsome younger brother, stir in a lascivious hag and her huge dog Quido, whisk in generous portions of greed and handfuls of duplicity, then wait thirty seconds for the fun and laughter to begin.

1st Produced:
Nucleo Ecclettico, Boston, Ma     1981

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Genre:
Comedy, costume, period

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  Dog offstage

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Still Life With Red Balloon

Synopsis:
Family secrets are revealed under the pressure of a life and death situation.

Notes:
Still Life With Red Balloon has had readings and productions at regional theaters and was a finalist at the Firehouse New Works Festival in Newburyport, MA. It is adapted from the playwrights full length play A Passage of Time.

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Genre:
Drama 10 minutes

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Ten Minutes To Terror

Synopsis:
A man and a woman, old friends and movie buffs, on their way to see King Kong encounter a real monster, the woman's husband

Notes:
Ten Minutes To Terror has had several productions at regional theater companies and has been the subject of short films. Nominated as best new play by the Spotlight on the Arts, Portsmouth NH. The nominating committee wrote "true to its title this script by David Mauriello runs just 10 minutes. Yet he tells a story with beginning, middle and end and allows audiences to meet flesh and blood characters. In 10 minutes we care what happens to them. Quite a feat"

1st Produced:
Players Ring, Portsmouth Nh     2002

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Genre:
Drama 10 minutes

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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