Artistic Statement
Before I fell in love with theatre, I fell in love with the many movies I would watch with my father. Often bedridden from his illness, I found a haven on his King-sized mattress where I could watch the things my mother would never allow me to. We’d spend hours shouting predictions over the dialogue, cutting in to reemphasize a funny joke, and sharing our expert critique on how we’d have written it. I credit this time for shaping my artistic taste, teaching me narrative structure, and igniting a passion to create stories my Dad would enjoy. Years later, his approval became the litmus test for the success of any play I wrote.
In the late-summer of 2020, my Dad suffered a heart attack that left him lifeless on the floor of his over-cluttered apartment. After taking time to mourn, I stumbled back into my craft with let’s talk about anything else (LTAAE), allowing me to purge harbored feelings of guilt, isolation, and confusion as I tried to comprehend the incomprehensible. Through this outpouring of emotion, the first draft came into this world as abruptly as my father left it, and the reason I write plays changed from a need to impress him to a need to preserve him.
Many of my plays, like LTAAE, are about grief. Whether that means a death, a break up, or the end of a friendship, I am interested in the way grieving people function, and the measures we take to avoid the pain of losing someone. I aim to tackle heartbreak with dark comedy, empathy, and theatricality. Drawn to morally-complicated characters, I’m fascinated by likable people who do unlikable things, writing them with compassion, without shielding them from scrutiny.
In the late-summer of 2020, my Dad suffered a heart attack that left him lifeless on the floor of his over-cluttered apartment. After taking time to mourn, I stumbled back into my craft with let’s talk about anything else (LTAAE), allowing me to purge harbored feelings of guilt, isolation, and confusion as I tried to comprehend the incomprehensible. Through this outpouring of emotion, the first draft came into this world as abruptly as my father left it, and the reason I write plays changed from a need to impress him to a need to preserve him.
Many of my plays, like LTAAE, are about grief. Whether that means a death, a break up, or the end of a friendship, I am interested in the way grieving people function, and the measures we take to avoid the pain of losing someone. I aim to tackle heartbreak with dark comedy, empathy, and theatricality. Drawn to morally-complicated characters, I’m fascinated by likable people who do unlikable things, writing them with compassion, without shielding them from scrutiny.
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Anthony Anello
Artistic Statement
Before I fell in love with theatre, I fell in love with the many movies I would watch with my father. Often bedridden from his illness, I found a haven on his King-sized mattress where I could watch the things my mother would never allow me to. We’d spend hours shouting predictions over the dialogue, cutting in to reemphasize a funny joke, and sharing our expert critique on how we’d have written it. I credit this time for shaping my artistic taste, teaching me narrative structure, and igniting a passion to create stories my Dad would enjoy. Years later, his approval became the litmus test for the success of any play I wrote.
In the late-summer of 2020, my Dad suffered a heart attack that left him lifeless on the floor of his over-cluttered apartment. After taking time to mourn, I stumbled back into my craft with let’s talk about anything else (LTAAE), allowing me to purge harbored feelings of guilt, isolation, and confusion as I tried to comprehend the incomprehensible. Through this outpouring of emotion, the first draft came into this world as abruptly as my father left it, and the reason I write plays changed from a need to impress him to a need to preserve him.
Many of my plays, like LTAAE, are about grief. Whether that means a death, a break up, or the end of a friendship, I am interested in the way grieving people function, and the measures we take to avoid the pain of losing someone. I aim to tackle heartbreak with dark comedy, empathy, and theatricality. Drawn to morally-complicated characters, I’m fascinated by likable people who do unlikable things, writing them with compassion, without shielding them from scrutiny.
In the late-summer of 2020, my Dad suffered a heart attack that left him lifeless on the floor of his over-cluttered apartment. After taking time to mourn, I stumbled back into my craft with let’s talk about anything else (LTAAE), allowing me to purge harbored feelings of guilt, isolation, and confusion as I tried to comprehend the incomprehensible. Through this outpouring of emotion, the first draft came into this world as abruptly as my father left it, and the reason I write plays changed from a need to impress him to a need to preserve him.
Many of my plays, like LTAAE, are about grief. Whether that means a death, a break up, or the end of a friendship, I am interested in the way grieving people function, and the measures we take to avoid the pain of losing someone. I aim to tackle heartbreak with dark comedy, empathy, and theatricality. Drawn to morally-complicated characters, I’m fascinated by likable people who do unlikable things, writing them with compassion, without shielding them from scrutiny.