doollee banner
The Playwrights Database
contact doollee


Frank Terranova

FRANK TERRANOVA

  
Nationality:    Italian USA
email:    Click here to contact     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    n/a

Frank Terranova, born Gerard Cantalupo Nov, 10, 1966 in Brooklyn. Graduated from St. john's University with a BA in Sociology before Attending the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where he studied acting with Debra Wiley. He also studied privately with famed acting coach Elizabeth Kemp. Frank is an actor and author of 8 plays. Born and raised in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn where all his plays take place. He is the sole founder of the Stir the Sauce Theater Company who's plays are produced off off Broadway to critical acclaim and sold out houses.

Buy Plays with Doollee

Each page of doollee.com has links to play/book outlets, either directly to the Publisher, through Stageplays.com and Amazon to the second hand and 1st editions of AbeBooks. These links will automatically take you to the relevant area obviating the need for further search.
AbeBooks.co.uk   AbeBooks.com   Stageplays.com   amazon.com   amazon.co.uk   amazon.ca
whether you are a Playwright who wishes to make their entry definitive, an unlisted Playwright or a User with a tale to tell - we want to hear from you.
download WORD submission template

below is a list of Frank Terranova's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         86 Street         Best Part Of Breakin' Up         Crossing Rockaway Parkway         Diamond Girl         Exit 13         Ne'er Do Wells         Welcome to Canarsie

86 Street

Synopsis:
In the summer of 19855, Angelo, fresh off a breakup is persuaded by his buddies to go cruising bensonhurst's 86 Street. In his constant search for a payphone to call his ex, he meets and falls in love with a Romanian gypsy girl who is trapped in an incestuous relationship with an older brother

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner theater    2004

Organisations:
Stir the Sauce Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Best Part Of Breakin' Up

Synopsis:
Joey Cagianno returns to his old Brooklyn Nabe, on the heels of a breakup for the wedding of a childhood friend and quickly rebounds with the younger sister of an old flame.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner theater    2004

Organisations:
Stir the Sauce Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Crossing Rockaway Parkway

Synopsis:
a cross cultural romance between an Italian American guy and an African American girl set to a racially charged Brooklyn backdrop

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Sanford Meisner theater    2002

Organisations:
Stir the Sauce Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Diamond Girl

Synopsis:
Tommy LaRosa, a shoplifting dj is adrift in Brooklyn in the summer of 1987. He meets a young hispanic woman and places her on a pedestil. only to be disappointed when he learns she may not be as innocent as he made her out to be in his mind

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Producers Club    2003

Organisations:
Stir the Sauce Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Exit 13

Synopsis:
Victor is torn between his lifelong buddies in his mobbed-up Brooklyn neighborhood and a new life across the bridge in Manhattan with his long suffering girlfriend Laurie Ann. With a pulsing soundtrack featuring 70's punk and 90's britpop.
Press Release

Notes:
-

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Stir the Sauce Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  3            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Ne'er Do Wells

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    2003

Organisations:
Stir the Sauce Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page

Welcome to Canarsie

Synopsis:
Christine, former neighborhood heartbreaker, returns to Brooklyn from California in the winter of 1992 to regroup and plot her next move. She instead falls back into her old life with ex-boyfriend and local wise guy Joey Lip. Meanwhile, John, a low level drug dealer refuses to pay tax to Lip. Everyone agrees that John should just play by the rules of the neighborhood including his best friend Sal who has taken more than a little interest in Christine. When Gaspare, Lips childlike, yet psychotic side kick sets his eyes on Dawn, Johns girlfriend, things spin out of control and Sal is forced to take a stand which will lead him out of the only world he has ever known.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Trilogy theater    2002

Organisations:
Stir the Sauce Productions

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

To Buy This Play:
If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies

Booksellers:

Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

Top of Page Top of Page