Gino Diiorio

Gino DiIorio is a playwright and professor of theatre at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. His plays include: The Jag (winner, 2010 Firehouse Theatre’s Great American New Play Award; finalist, 2011 Laurents Hatcher Award Competition and 2010 Kean University Premiere Playwright’s Contest); Reparation (winner, development grant, Clark University, 2008-09; winner, 2011 E. Desmond Lee Playwriting Prize, University of Missouri-St. Louis; finalist, 2010 Yale Drama Series; world premiere, Luna Stage, February 2012); Dead Ringer (world premiere, New Jersey Rep in 2009; 2nd production, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre; 1st place, BBC’s 2005 International Playwriting Competition; performed on BBC Radio; published by Samuel French); Release Point (finalist, 2011 Thomas Barbour Memorial Playwright’s Award and HotCity Theatre’s Greenhouse New Play Festival); Darwin at Down (2nd place, 2007 Julie Harris Playwriting Competition; staged readings at the Urban Stages Theatre and the International Theatre Festival in Timisoara, Romania); Centennial Casting, co-written with Nancy Bleemer (Penguin Repertory Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Arclight Theatre in NYC; Seven Angels Theatre, CT, February 2012); Apostasy (world premiere, New Jersey Rep, July 2006; NY premiere, Urban Stages Theatre, April 2007; published by Samuel French); Are You the Wife of Michael Cleary? (NY premiere, Irish Arts Center, January 2008; produced throughout Ireland); and Sandbox (Garter Lane Theatre, Waterford, Ireland).