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FRANCA MIRAGLIA
Nationality: Italian-Canadian
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Franca Miraglia completed her Masters of Fine Arts degree at York University for Theatre, Playwriting in 2007. Her latest play, Last Days of Graceland was recently produced as part of Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille 40th Anniversary Season (March 2008). She is a past member of the Playwrights Collective at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto. In 2005, Franca was selected by New Perspectives Theatre Company in New York City for its Women's Work development program where her play Platinum Travel Club was produced off-off-Broadway. Platinum Travel Club was also produced in association with Theatre Passe Muraille (directed by then Artistic Director, Layne Coleman) in June 2005. Franca is a finalist for the 2004 REva Shiner Playwriting Contest which resulted in a production of Platinum Travel Club at the Bloomington Playwrights Project's Dark Alley Late Night Series. Her play, Life on a Diet, was produced off-off-Broadway by the Looking Glass Theatre in New York City after a successful run at the Fringe: Toronto's Theatre Festival 1998. Franca has written nine full-length plays and lives in Toronto. She is a member of the Playwrights Guild of CanadA.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Last Days of Graceland Life on a Diet Platinum Travel ClubLast Days of Graceland
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How do you say goodbye to a legend? Last Days of Graceland follows a pilgrimage to the gates of Graceland Mansion. A bizzillionaire has organized a lottery for 10 lucky winners to spend a weekend at the Mansion before it is forever converted into his private residence. As an icon of American excess crumbles, unlikely allies collude and collide as lives and memories intersect during the count down for the lucky winners to be picked. A contemporary redemption story, Franca Miraglia's latest play is a moving tribute to the power of human forgiveness and a searing reminder of the mind's unwillingness to forget.
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Produced by theatre Passe Muraille March 2008. Developed through workshops At York University (New Play Workshop, theatre department) And At theatre Passe Muraille.
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Life On a Diet provides a refreshing look at self-denial for anyone who is convinced that their body has a mind of its own and that food and sex are interchangeable. Life On a Diet is a comedy-Drama about girlfriends, sisters, sex and chocolate. June is obsessed with her weight and is willing to try everything and anything to become more like her thin-attractive sister, Missy. But Missy has a secret that June doesn't want to believe is somehow connected to her struggles with her weight.
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Looking Glass Theatre 2002
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the Fringe: Toronto's Theatre Festival 1998
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Platinum Travel Club is an erotic-thriller that explores one woman's road from childhood loss to adult obsession. the abduction of her beautiful teenage sister leaves Sandie to survive a shattered family shrouded in illusions, deceit and denial. Despite this childhood tragedy, she doesn't let anything get in the way of building a successful career - not a kleptomaniac mother or a bullying father. Switching between past and present, the story is told against a backdrop of sex clubs, hotel rooms and small town bliss.
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Produced off-off-Broadway by New Perspectives theatre October '05; Produced At theatre Passe Muraille (directed by then Artistic Director, Layne Coleman) June '05; Finalist in the 2004 Reva Shiner Contest, Bloomington Playwrights Project, Indiana Workshop production by Bloomington Playwrights Project After Dark Late Night Series, Indiana;
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