My new play RELEASE POINT will be given its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre this coming season. The play will be directed by Joel Stone and will open on Aug. 16.
RELEASE POINT was a finalist for the Thomas Barbour Award and was developed through the Greenhouse New Play Festival Award at the Hotcity Theatre. The play also won a Clark University Development Grant in 2011.
For ticket information, visit www.NJREP.org.
Every other year, I produce a new play festival through Clark University for student playwrights there to have their works read and performed. It’s a cool event and I’m very proud of the students. We run April 11 through May 1 at the Little Center Theatre on the Clark Campus.
Here’s a cool write up we got in the Worcester Magazine:
http://www.worcestermag.com/home/top-stories/Out-with-the-old-and-in-with-the-New-147060315.html
And for more info, visit our facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/events/380621555291431/
This romantic comedy (co-written with Nancy Bleemer) will be produced at the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury, CT. The play runs through March 11th. For more details, visit their website at: sevenangelstheatre.org
My new play REPARATION goes into rehearsals next week, featuring the talents of Shane Taylor, Catherine Eaton, and “The Wire’s” Frankie Faison. REPARATION will be directed by Jane Mandel and begins previews on Feb. 9.
REPARATION was the winner of the E. Desmond Lee Prize in 2011 and a Yale Drama League Finalist in 2010.
For more info, visit: lunastage.org
My new play “Release Point” is a finalist for the Greenhouse New Play Festival through the HotCity Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri. Info is at the link below…if you’re in St. Louis in November, come check it out.
“Release Point” was developed with support from a grant through Clark University and also with the very generous support from my friends at the New Jersey Repertory Theatre.
hotcitytheatre.org
My new play REPARATION is the winner of the E. Desmond Lee Playwriting Prize.
The award is given by the Missouri Historical Society and the Lee Endowed Professorship in African-American Studies at the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The competition is open to plays that consider the African-American experience.
REPARATION was a Yale Drama Finalist in 2010. The play deals with the involvement of US banking in the slave trade, both yesterday and today.
Award winning playwright Gino DiIorio is offering an 8 week playwriting class for both beginning and intermediate playwrights.
Using a balance of lecture, exercise and feedback on work from the instructor and classmates, this class gives students a firm grounding in all basics of playwriting.
The course will focus mostly on full length plays but short works are welcome too. Each class will include mini-lectures on the basics of playwriting followed by weekly writing exercises. Students will write each week and hear their scenes read out loud. Toward the latter part of the term, we’ll bring actors into class to read works out loud as well.
8 sessions, $350.00
Class is strictly limited to 10 students
Classes begin Tuesday, May 10th, 6.30-9.30 PM, Midtown Location
For more information or to register, contact GINOD42@aol.com
Gino DiIorio has over twenty years experience teaching both playwriting and acting. His plays have won many awards and have been produced both nationally and internationally.
