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Anthony P Pennino

ANTHONY P PENNINO

  
Nationality:    USA
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anthony P. Pennino received a 2005 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has written the following plays (produced in New York or London): Story of an Unknown Man; Survivors; Meditations from North America; the Long, Twilight Struggle; Italian-American Cantos; and Children's Crusader (about early twentieth-century Progressive Florence Kelley). Currently, he is working with composer/lyricist Nate Chura on a new musical entitled AbracadabrA. His one-acts have appeared in theAtrainplays at the Neighborhood Playhouse. He authored the radio play the City of Shadows, which played on NPR. For the Metropolitan, he developed and has written for East Village Chronicles, an annual production of one-acts that celebrates New York's Lower East Side. His Forgeries of Jealousy has been published by New York Theatre Experience. Through his company JADE Productions, he has managed off-Broadway productions and is working on developing projects similar tothe East Village Chronicles for other communities. Dr. Pennino is also a director and won an OOBR Award for his work onA Soldier's Death. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Columbia University, an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Columbia, and a Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature from the University of London. Currently, he teaches British Literature at New Jersey City University. Memberships: DGA, SSDC, MLA, and the Players.

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         60 Guilders Worth         Absolution         Advent         Avatar         Call It Peace: Meditations from North America         Children's Crusader         Chokehold         Devil and Tom Walker, The         Dia De Los Muertos         Elegy For Me, An         Extracts From Adam's Diary         Foreign Exchange         Howard Hopped the A-Train         I, Horatio         Lucky         Story Of An Unknown Man         Survivors         Thousand Deaths, A         Toby         War Prayers         Work

60 Guilders Worth

Synopsis:
In 1600 New Amsterdam, the economic engine of Manhattan gets ignited with scalps and. . . more private parts.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
part of Metropolitan Playhouse presents the fourth Annual installment of East Village Chronicles, An ongoing series of original one-act plays About/set in the theatre's local neighborhood in NYC's East Village/Alphabet City

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Absolution

Synopsis:
Survivors, comprising Avatar, An Elegy of Me, Advent and Absolution, focuses on the spiritual void at the heart of the young, professional American male. His problem is 'the inability to love without fear or compulsion, the obsessions with failure, the dependence on destructive substances or ideas, and the feelings of loneliness and loss.

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part of "Survivors"

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Elite Fighting Crew

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One Act

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Advent

Synopsis:
Survivors, comprising Avatar, An Elegy of Me, Advent and Absolution, focuses on the spiritual void at the heart of the young, professional American male. His problem is 'the inability to love without fear or compulsion, the obsessions with failure, the dependence on destructive substances or ideas, and the feelings of loneliness and loss.

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part of "Survivors"

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Elite Fighting Crew

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One Act

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Avatar

Synopsis:
Survivors, comprising Avatar, An Elegy of Me, Advent and Absolution, focuses on the spiritual void at the heart of the young, professional American male. His problem is 'the inability to love without fear or compulsion, the obsessions with failure, the dependence on destructive substances or ideas, and the feelings of loneliness and loss.

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part of "Survivors"

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Elite Fighting Crew

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One Act

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Call It Peace: Meditations from North America

Synopsis:
Rich, an American journalist abroad, is imprisoned in a small cell with Cal, a young backpacker from Canada. Together, Rich and Cal are forced to discover the internal strength to survive their kidnapping by a terrorist organisation that keeps its motivations hidden. But when Cal dies, rich escapes further and further into his memories of his life with Abby, his girlfriend. Is Rich slowly being driven mad? Is Rich slowly being driven mad? Or is he truly having visions? Whichever is the case, Rich is on a unique journey of self-discovery that will lead him to some startling conclusions. . . Call it Peace:Meditations from North America is the first in a trilogy of plays by American playwright, Anthony P Pennino. The complete cycle of plays highlights the distinctly American experiences of death and war throughout a half century of conflict, beginning with a new drama inspired by the events of September 11th, the kidnapping of the American journalist Daniel Pearl and America's commitment to the war against terrorism.

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Elite Fighting Crew

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Drama FringeHIGH, 80 min Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Children's Crusader

Synopsis:
Florence Kelley the US social reformer

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-    2005

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Chokehold

Synopsis:
"The play, Chokehold, is extremely political. The work is taking a look at police shootings that seem to be on the rise over the past twelve months. I am taking a different tactic here, though. The work takes a dark turn. I saw this statement that John Kennedy had made: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." And that quotation seem to be extremely applicable to what we are experiencing now. From Ferguson to North Charleston to Baltimore, we have seen police use lethal force against (mostly) men of color with little to no consequences. There have been protests with the vast majority of protesters engaging in peaceful demonstrations; they have been maligned by a number of outlets of the mainstream media. So, what if a handful of individuals decided to take next darkly logical step and return violence for violence? Could they go through with it? That is the question of the play." - Anthony P Pennino

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1st Produced:
Paradise Factory in NYC's East Village    Jun 2015

Organisations:
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity

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Devil and Tom Walker, The

Synopsis:
This is an adaptation of Washington Irving's story, the Devil and Tom Walker. This description is from Metropolitan Playhouse: "Set in 1787, the Devil and Tom Walker's titular hero (Tom, not the other one), hasn't very far to look to find sin. In his town of thrift, industry, fidelity, and fellowship, he stands out as miserly, slothful, irreverent, misanthrope. He is, in short, the perfect client for the Devil, who approaches him with a familiar bargain: in return for a pirate's horde of riches, Tom need only provide the Devil with his immortal soul. Tom is reluctant: the bargain sounds like a lot of work. But when that great Negotiator presents Tom with a surprise gift, the contract is signed, and a very funny yarn (with a surprising moral to boot) spins out."
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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Dia De Los Muertos

Synopsis:
the year is 1916. the world is at war. Kings are falling, and empires are crumbling. And into a small Mexican village near the U.S. border walks Devlyn Byrne, newly arrived from Ireland. there, she meets Pablo Carrillo, a Mexican doctor, and together they embark on a journey for the honor of both families. Or so Pablo believes. Devlyn certainly has a hidden agenda she is not ready to reveal. Dia de los Muertos is a daring new play from Core Creative Productions. Told in English and Spanish, it is both a tale of magical realism and a deconstructed Western. Dia de los Muertos is a story of individuals struggling to be true to themselves in a world disintegrating into violence. And in such a place and in such a time, only one can grow into something more while another descends into darkness.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Csv Cultural Center, 107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY 10002    13 Jul 2011

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Core Creative Productions

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Play/Drama

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Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Elegy For Me, An

Synopsis:
Survivors, comprising Avatar, An Elegy of Me, Advent and Absolution, focuses on the spiritual void at the heart of the young, professional American male. His problem is 'the inability to love without fear or compulsion, the obsessions with failure, the dependence on destructive substances or ideas, and the feelings of loneliness and loss.

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part of "Survivors"

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Elite Fighting Crew

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Extracts From Adam's Diary

Synopsis:
Adapted from the Mark Twain short story of the same title, Adam has everything he could possibly need in the Garden of Eden-peace, quiet, and plenty of carrots. then one day a new creature with long hair and water coming out of the eyes appears, and Adam's life will never be the same again.
nytheatre.com

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Part of Twainathon, A celebration of the work of the great American Author And humorist, Mark Twain

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Foreign Exchange

Synopsis:
a daredevil theater project in which playwrights create new work from scratch during the course of a single New York City subway ride. All of the characters are confined inside a single subway car -- from a stripper to a celebrity-stalker to the Savior himself. Alternately hilarious and deeply human, theAtrainplays hum with the relentless energy of their namesake

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New York City Subway Ride    -

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in theAtrainplays, Playscripts Inc, NY,    -

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Genre:
Short Comedy One Act

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Howard Hopped the A-Train

Synopsis:
Howard, a construction foreman, has just lost his job. Depressed, he sets out on the A train for his old neighborhood in Queens. Along the way he meets a most unlikely visitor, who looks for all the world like Jesus and just might change his life. . .

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1st Produced:
Neighborhood Playhouse (Atrainproductions) (New York, NY, United States)    2002

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1st Published:
Playscripts, Inc - New York   -

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Genre:
12-15 min Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  -            Other:  2 males

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I, Horatio

Synopsis:
Haunted by Hamlets dying request, in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain to tell my story, Horatio launches upon a quixotic quest to obey his dearly departed prince by putting on a play.

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VENUE #3: Teatro LATEA at the Clemente, NY    15 Aug 2015

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VENUE #3: Teatro LATEA at the ClementeComedy

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Lucky

Synopsis:
Metropolitan Playhouse presents Volume 3 of its excellent East Village Chronicles series, featuring new short plays about the Lower East Side neighborhood where the theatre is located. This year's Chronicles celebrate famous and infamous characters from the neighborhood: Peter Stuyvesant, Boss Tweed, Abe Cahan, Lucky Luciano, Charlie Parker, Abbie Hoffman, and Madonna

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part of East Village Chronicles, Volume 3

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Story Of An Unknown Man

Story Of An Unknown Man
Chekhov himself appears in this comic Drama based on one of his stories.

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The Theater At 413 West 44th Street, NY    2000

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Gorilla Repertory Theater

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Genre:
2 act play 135 min

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Male:  9            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Survivors

Synopsis:
Survivors, comprising Avatar, An Elegy of Me, Advent and Absolution, focuses on the spiritual void at the heart of the young, professional American male. His problem is 'the inability to love without fear or compulsion, the obsessions with failure, the dependence on destructive substances or ideas, and the feelings of loneliness and loss.

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Avatar; Advent; An Elegy For Me; Absolution

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Elite Fighting Crew

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4 * one acts

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  2 handers

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Thousand Deaths, A

Synopsis:
Adapted from the science-fiction short story by Jack London. On a remote island in the Pacific a scientist discovers a cure for death itself. Now he must test his discovery on one subject over and over and over again.

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1st Produced:
Venue #11: 64E4 Mainstage    Aug 2014

Organisations:
Core Creative Productions

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http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays   -

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Genre:
1h 0m L Drama FringeHIGH

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Toby

Synopsis:
Two actors both called Toby get trapped in a production of "Waiting For Godot" in Vermont.

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Pilot House

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Genre:
2 act play 130 min

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War Prayers

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Metropolitan Playhouse, New York    -

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Work

Synopsis:
A reading' of a two-act musical based on the lesser-known Louisa May Alcott novel Work: A Story of Experience. Christie Devon rejects marriage to the boy next door and seeks fulfillment and independence through work that I can put my heart into. . .to be a useful, happy woman. From the creators of the Devil and Tom Walker (2007)
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Conceived by Yvonne Conybeare, Book by Anthony P. Pennino, And Music by Rob Kendt. Metropolitan Playhouse hosts Another Sky, the theater's fifth Annual Living Literature Festival of performances inspired by the lives And works of American Authors. Another Sky is A collection of nine new works by Artists And companies from Across the US taking their inspiration from women of the long 19th Century

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Genre:
Musical

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