Don Nigro

Don Nigro (1949-2026), among the most frequently published and widely produced playwrights in the world, built a deeply interrelated and diverse body of dramatic literature, employing a wide variety of dramatic conventions and styles of presentation. He wrote monologues and epics, spare realistic dramas and surreal homicidal puppet farces, plays with music and verse plays. He built the long cycle of Pendragon County plays, tracing the history of America through the lives of several related east Ohio families from the 18th century to the present, and featured many characters who advance from youth through middle age to old age in a number of plays that may be presented in a variety of combinations.