Gino DiIorio
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Gino DiIorio
Gino DiIorio is a playwright and professor of theatre at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. His plays include: The Jag (winner, 2010 Firehouse Theatre’s Great American New Play Award; finalist, 2011 Laurents Hatcher Award Competition and 2010 Kean University Premiere Playwright’s Contest); Reparation (winner, development grant, Clark University, 2008-09; winner, 2011 E. Desmond Lee Playwriting Prize, University of Missouri-St. Louis; finalist, 2010 Yale Drama Series; world premiere, Luna Stage, February 2012); Dead Ringer (world premiere, New Jersey Rep in 2009; 2nd production, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre; 1st place, BBC’s 2005 International Playwriting Competition; performed on BBC Radio; published by Samuel French); Release Point (finalist, 2011 Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwright’s Award and HotCity Theatre’s Greenhouse New Play Festival); Darwin at Down (2nd place, 2007 Julie Harris Playwriting Competition; staged readings at the Urban Stages Theatre and the International Theatre Festival in Timisoara, Romania); Centennial Casting, co-written with Nancy Bleemer (Penguin Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Arclight Theatre in NYC; Seven Angels Theatre, CT, February 2012); Apostasy (world premiere, New Jersey Rep, July 2006; NY premiere, Urban Stages Theatre, April 2007; published by Samuel French); Are You the Wife of Michael Cleary? (NY premiere, Irish Arts Center, January 2008; produced throughout Ireland); and Sandbox (Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford, Ireland).
Mr. DiIorio has also written The Key, a one-man show addressing teen depression (developed, Educational Theatre of New England and Boston Children’s Hospital; high school tour, 2009-10).
Additional awards include the 2007 Urban Stages Emerging Playwrights Award, a 2003 Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award and a 2001 Higgins School Grant. His plays have been finalists at the O’Neill Center, the Humana Festival and New Dramatists. Other plays include: Winterizing the Summer House (top ten plays, 2002 Writer Digest; main-stage, New Jersey Repertory Theatre, 2003); his first play, White Noise (2nd prize, Delaware Theater Company’s “Connections” Contest for plays dealing with racial themes; 1st public reading starred Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham; winner, Pilgrim Project Grant for Development and Production; additional readings, 12 Miles West Theatre Company, NJ, and Chicago Dramatists; main-stage, Turnip Theatre Company, NYC); The Pigeon Tree (Metropolitan Playhouse, “East Village Chronicles” Serie, January 2005); his short play, Green Waits on Blue (published, Near South, a poetry journal); and Sleeping Dogs (public reading, 78th Street Theatre Lab, featuring Arthur Nascerella and Frank Vincent).
Mr. DiIorio has written a number of screenplays, including Fatboy and Morally Straight (semifinalist, 2002 Austin Film Festival; reading, The Actor’s Playground, NYC, featuring Norbert Leo Butz). Mr. DiIorio has won a number of awards for his teaching, including a Logan Faculty Fellowship and a Hayden Junior Faculty Fellowship. He has also taught at The New School for Social Research, NYU, Rockland Community College, and Acteen at the Weist Barron School. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
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The Jag
Gino DiIorio
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyThe Jag
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 2m
>Seventy year old "Chick" Chicarella has one prized possession, a 1967 Jaguar that is in desperate need of repair. When his son suggests that they finish the car and sell it off, old family wounds and failures rise to the surface. Unable to complete the task by themselves, they hire Carla, who is an expert in Jaguars, but woefully lacking in social skills. Together, the three learn some hard lessons about repairing cars and smoothing out life's jagged edges.
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Centennial Casting
Gino DiIorio, Nancy Bleemer
Full-Length Play, ComedyCentennial Casting
Gino DiIorio ,Nancy Bleemer
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 3m
This heartwarming, hilarious romantic comedy asks: What happens when you tell a little white lie to get closer to a woman you've fallen head over heels for?
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Centennial Casting
Gino DiIorio, Nancy Bleemer
Full-Length Play, ComedyCentennial Casting
Gino DiIorio ,Nancy Bleemer
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 3m
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Apostasy
Gino DiIorio
Apostasy
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Dead Ringer (DiIorio)
Gino DiIorio
Dead Ringer (DiIorio)