GINO DIIORIO (Playwright) Gino DiIorio's new play Darwin at Down won 2nd place in the 2007 Julie Harris Playwriting Competition. The play has been given staged readings at the Urban Stages Theatre, and the International Theatre Festival in Timisoara, Romania. Dead Ringer won 1st place in the BBC's 2005 International Playwriting Competition. The play was performed on BBC Radio in the Fall of 2005. Dead Ringer will receive its world premiere at the New Jersey Rep in 2009. Centennial Casting, co-written with Nancy Bleemer, and directed by Joe Brancato, was produced at Penguin Repertory Theatre in June of 2006 as well as the Virginia Stage Company, Fall 2008. Apostasy was given its world premiere at the New Jersey Rep in July of 2006. The play received its New York premiere at the Urban Stages Theatre in April of 2007. Apostasy was recently published by Samuel French. Are You the Wife of Michael Cleary? received its NY premiere in January of 2008 at the Irish Arts Center. The play was also produced at various venues throughout Ireland. Reparation won a development grant through Clark University (2008-09) and received a staged reading at Luna Stage, NJ. Gino has also written The Key, a one man show addressing teen depression. The Key was developed through Educational Theatre of New England and Boston Children's Hospital, and will begin a high school tour in 2009-10. Gino was the winner of the 2007 Urban Stages Emerging Playwrights Award. He also has won a Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award (2003) and a Higgins School Grant (2001). His plays have been finalists at the O'Neill Center, the Humana Festival and New Dramatists. Winterizing the Summer House was chosen as one of the top ten plays in the 2002 Writer Digest's national play competition. The play received a main stage production in 2003 at the New Jersey Repertory Company. His first play, White Noise, received second prize in Delaware Theater Company's Connections Contest for plays dealing with racial themes and received its first public reading starring Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham. White Noise also received a Pilgrim Project Grant for Development and Production. The play has been given readings by the 12 Miles West Theatre Company (NJ) as well as at Chicago Dramatists. White Noise was given a main stage production by the Turnip Theatre Company in NYC. His play The Pigeon Tree was produced by the Metropolitan Playhouse as part of their East Village Chronicles Series in January of 2005. His short play, Green Waits on Blue, was recently published in Near South, a poetry journal. His play Sleeping Dogs was given a public reading at the 78th Street Theatre Lab. featuring Arthur Nascerella and Frank Vincent. Gino has written a number of screenplays, including Fatboy and Morally Straight, a 2002 Austin Film Festival Semifinalist. Morally Straight was given a reading by The Actor's Playground in NYC, featuring Norbert Leo Butz in the lead role. Gino is Associate Professor of Theatre at Clark University in Worcester, MA. He 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, the Weist Barron School, and Rockland Community College. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

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