MARY CRESCENZO, Topanga, CA 90290
Dramatists Guild of America, member
PRODUCTIONS/PUBLICATIONS:
Playwright:
Planet A - Topanga Library Theatre, Topanga CA
Planet A - Shades Repertory Theatre Company, Haverstraw, NY; dramatic readings: Dramatists Guild of America’s “Footlight Series,” NYC; Patrina Cultural Center, Brownsville, TX.
(Planet A, with the previous title, Piece of Mind) - Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th Street; New York (NYC International Fringe Festival); Longmont Theater, Longmont, CO. (reading)
The Tram - A one act play; Italian American Museum, NY; Dramatists Guild, NY, scheduled for May 2013: Roosevelt Island, Outdoor Theatre; Shades Repertory Theatre, Haverstraw, NY
The Alzheimer’s' Monologues - The Producers Club, 49th Street & 9th...
MARY CRESCENZO, Topanga, CA 90290
Dramatists Guild of America, member
PRODUCTIONS/PUBLICATIONS:
Playwright:
Planet A - Topanga Library Theatre, Topanga CA
Planet A - Shades Repertory Theatre Company, Haverstraw, NY; dramatic readings: Dramatists Guild of America’s “Footlight Series,” NYC; Patrina Cultural Center, Brownsville, TX.
(Planet A, with the previous title, Piece of Mind) - Classic Stage Company, 136 E. 13th Street; New York (NYC International Fringe Festival); Longmont Theater, Longmont, CO. (reading)
The Tram - A one act play; Italian American Museum, NY; Dramatists Guild, NY, scheduled for May 2013: Roosevelt Island, Outdoor Theatre; Shades Repertory Theatre, Haverstraw, NY
The Alzheimer’s' Monologues - The Producers Club, 49th Street & 9th Avenue, NY
Let it All Hang Out - dramatic reading at Shades Repertory Theatre, Haverstraw, NY
Swimming Home - one woman show, Ford Studio, Peekskill, NY
The Old Woman Who Slew the Dragon-fox - The Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, NY
The Everyday Life of Kids - (a musical review) Peekskill, NY
The Alzheimer’s' Monologues - Studio Two, Peekskill, NY
Solo shows - There Are Reservations About This, Love Blood, Sex Blues and Bukowski, Tulsa
Librettist:
Mezmeralda, Magic & the Woman in All of Us - Tulsa Children’s Opera Chorus Workshop
Awards/Acknowledgement (sampling): Playwright Festival winner, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, NY; semi-finalist, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Works Center National Playwrights Conference; winner, James J. Nicholson Political Poetry Prize sponsored by The Pelham Library; winner of the Annual Greenburgh Poetry Contest, Greenburgh, NY. Recipient of Lifetime Arts, Inc. Creative Aging Grants, as a teaching artist for older adults.
Nonfiction - periodicals, newspapers:
The New York Times; Cosmopolitan; Playboy; The Huffington Post; The Writer; Highlights;
Santa Fe Reporter; The New Mexican; Nevada; Tulsa World; Expecting; High Performance
Poetry/Prose: (sampling)
(Anthologies) Yale Divinity School literary journal, Reflections; Looking for Home: Women Writing about Exile/Milkweed Edition; The Epistolary Form & The Letter as Artifact/Pig Iron Press; What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Relationship Like This... Crossing Press; la bella figura: a choice - malafemmina press; Woman As Is - Dell; Paragraph, etc.
(Literary Journals) Italian-Americana (editor Dana Goia); West Wind Review; Plainswoman, Phoenix; la bella figura; California Quarterly; Passaic Poetry Center; Caribbean Writer; Trapani Nuova (Italy); Fan, etc.
ACADEMIC SUMMARY: Lehman College, New York - BA/Art Education; College of New Rochelle, New York, graduate studies - art therapy; American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York; MLS/creative writing, University of OK
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Casting director - feature films (Coppola, Disney, ABC, Warner Bros., Paramount, etc.); Broadcaster - WPLJ FM (ABC, NY); chanteuse; actress (SAG-AFTRA); installationist; teaching artist: theatre, vocal, literary arts – New York, Santa Fe, Tulsa