JOEL STONE (Playwright-In-Residence) 

Joel was the artistic director of Off-Broadway's Theatre Asylum, which produced his play, Horrors of Dr. Moreau (published by Samuel French, Inc.) In 1998, Horrors of Dr. Moreau became the first Script-in-Hand reading presented at NJ Rep. The Age of Miracles, which premiered at NJ Rep in 1999, was a finalist at the Samuel French Short Play Festival that year. An evening of his short plays at NJ Rep included The Speck of Dust in Bugsy's Eye, featuring the late Kim Hunter. Another of those plays, Groping for Faith, was a finalist in the Love Creek Winter 2001 Play Festival. His direction of James McLure's Lone Star was cited by the Princeton Packet News as among the dozen best NJ productions of 2003. He wrote and directed the plays Prairie Dogs and Abilene for NJ Rep's 2004 Theatre Brut Festival. His play Trouble on the PATH opened the 2005 Theatre Brut Festival on "Sacrifice". He is a 'member emeritus' of the Writers Guild of America West. For three years, he was in charge of theatre education for New York City's public schools and the NYC Department of Education.

MARK DUNN (Playwright-in-Residence)

A charter member of NJ Rep, Mark is the author of thirty plays, a dozen of which have been published and are currently being licensed in productions throughout the world.  Among them, North Fork, which premiered at NJ Rep, has been published by Samuel French, Inc. as Cabin Fever, a Texas Tragicomedy.  His full-length plays Helen's Most Favorite Day and Dix Tableaux, both of which originated as staged readings at NJ Rep have also been published by Samuel French, Inc.  Mark is the recipient of a number of awards for his plays and books, including Ella Minnow Pea, which was winner of the 2001 Border's Original Voices Award for fiction and a Book Sense finalist.  The author of three novels, Mark will see his fourth, Theodore Roosevelt: A Season in My Bully Life, published by St. Martin's Press in 2008.   He is currently at work on two children's books.

JOE PINTAURO (Playwright-in-Residence)

Pintauro's play, Snow Orchid was a selection of the Eugene O'Neill conference. Circle Rep produced it with Olympia Dukakis and a recent revival in London, starred Jude Law and Paola di Ognisotti. Moving Targets, a number of short plays, was produced by the Vineyard Theatre in New York City. Other plays are: Beside Herself, Circle Rep. with William Hurt and Calista Flockhart, and Lois Smith. Raft of the Medusa at the Minetta Lane and London's Gate Nottinghill. Men's Lives, a dramatic adaptation of Peter Mattheissen's non fiction book, Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor. The Dead Boy, work-shopped at London's Royal Court with Ian McKellan, Sean Mathias directing. Pintauro directed it in a Netherlands production entitled, Dode Jongen, in Dutch language. It was also recently produced in Los Angeles. His collection of twenty sevens short plays called Metropolitan Operas have been produced in various languages. The trilogy By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea, was produced at The Bay Street Theatre and later at The Manhattan Theatre Club. Pintauro taught fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence and N.Y.U., film making at Marymount College and The School of Visual Arts, N.Y., and playwrighting at Southampton College where he headed the summer writers conference. The Dead Boy was a recent selection of the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference. His novel, Cold Hands, was singled out by the New York Times as one of the best novels of the year. State of Grace, his second novel, was published by Times Books and well reviewed. Pintauro has studied cinematography, (Columbia University) has a B.B.A. from Manhattan College, a B.A. in Philosophy and he completed full time study in Major Theology. He was awarded the Margaret Hill inaugural chair in theatre at Saint Mary's College at Notre Dame, 2001.

MIKE FOLIE (Playwright-in-Residence)

Six of Mike's plays have been produced at NJ Rep - An Unhappy Woman; The Adjustment; Lemonade; Naked by the River; Slave Shack; and Panama, the last three as world premieres. In addition, NJ Rep has produced staged readings of Mike's plays Boxes and Home Movies. The Adjustment was produced Off-Broadway at the 91st Street Theater, played for six months in Los Angeles, and was produced on tour in Great Britain with Stefanie Powers. NJ Rep's East Coast premiere of Mike's An Unhappy Woman (now titled Love in the Insecurity Zone) was called "hilarious" by The New York Times; other productions of the play have taken place in Los Angeles and Buffalo. Naked By The River has gone on to be produced in Connecticut, Florida, New York, California, and Texas. Panama, another NJ Rep premiere, was subsequently produced at the Edison Theater, Long Beach, California and at Oregon Stage Works in Ashland, Oregon. Panama was also featured in the 2003 Dublin, Ireland Fringe Festival. Mike has been commissioned by Broadway and film producer George W. George (My Dinner with André; Dylan; Bedroom Farce) to write a play about the sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. Mike lives with his wife, Frances Mayer, a schoolteacher, and his two children, Brendan and Lizzie, in Rockland County, New York. You can visit his website at: www.mikefolie.com.

GINO DIIORIO (Playwright-in-Residence) 

Gino DiIorio’s new play The Hard Way won 1st place in the BBC’s 2005 International Playwriting Competition. The play was be broadcast internationally over BBC Radio in the Fall of 2005. The Hard Way was also chosen as one of three plays in the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s New Plays in Progress Series and was given a staged reading in August of 2005. The play was also given a staged reading in August 2006 at the NAAA Festival in London. Centennial Casting, co-written with Nancy Bleemer, and directed by Joe Brancato, was produced at Penguin Repertory Theatre in June of 2006. Apostasy was given its world premiere at the New Jersey Rep in July of 2006. The Wife of Michael Cleary received its world premiere this past May at the Abymill Theatre in Fethard, Ireland. The play was also awarded a Higgins School Grant for Research and Development. Gino won a Berrilla Kerr Award for Playwriting (2003). 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. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, The Association for Theatre in Higher Education, as well as the Chicago Dramatists Playwrights’ Network. He is also a member of SAG, AFTRA, and AEA. Gino lives in NYC with his wife and two sons.

D. W. GREGORY (Playwright-in-Residence)

D.W. Gregory is a critically acclaimed writer whose plays have been presented throughout the United States and abroad. The New York Times has called Ms. Gregory "a playwright with a talent to enlighten and provoke" for Radium Girls, a drama about watch dial painters poisoned on the job. The Good Daughter, about a farm family in World War I Missouri, earned her a Pulitzer Prize nomination when it premiered at New Jersey Repertory Co, where Ms. Gregory is a resident playwright.  She is a national core member of the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis and a member of Playground, a playwrights' development group at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co., in Washington, D.C. Ms. Gregory's other plays include October 1962, which also premiered at NJ Rep; The Good Girl Is Gone, a finalist for the O'Neill; Molumby's Million; Cabbage Hill (formerly, The Truth About Charlie), developed at The New Harmony Project; Driven To Abstraction, and Your Life Begins Here, as well as a number of short plays and plays for youth theater. She is a two-time finalist for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where a short play, So Tell Me About This Guy, kicked off her playwriting career. Plays for youth theatre include Penny Candy, The Secret Lives Of Toads, Miracle In Mudville, Tales Between The Threads, and Another County, all commissioned by Imagination Stage and developed for student performance. Ms. Gregory's work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council, the National New Play Network, and The Alfred P. Sloan Science and Technology Project. Her plays have been developed and presented at The Playwrights Center, The New Harmony Project, the Shenandoah International Playwrights Retreat, the Mt. Sequoyah New Play Retreat, Ensemble Studio Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Lark, Theater of the First Amendment, GEVA Theater, Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, Round House Theater, Charter Theater, Florida Stage, The Women's Project, Abingdon Theater, and the Young Vic. Several of her plays, including Radium Girls and Penny Candy, are published by Dramatic Publishing. In addition to writing plays, Ms. Gregory has worked as a theater critic—most recently for The Washington Post—and as a teaching artist.