Gino DiIorio / Playwright

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 10^th, 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.