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Brown University {{small>(MFA)}}}}Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer. Her plays Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn were finalists for the 2009 and 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, respectively. She has written for the television series Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, FBI: Most Wanted, The Alienist, and House of Cards.

Biography

Gionfriddo grew up in Washington, D.C., where she attended Georgetown Day School.Cohen, Patricia. "Onstage, Tackling Ambition and Crime" The New York Times, December 29, 2008 She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University and completed Brown University's MFA playwriting program where she studied with playwright Paula Vogel.WEB, Tuning In With Gina Gionfriddo, Philadelphia Theatre Company,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071013000601weblink">weblink 2007-10-13, Goodman, Lawrence. "Art and Life" Brown Alumni Magazine, May/June 2013In addition to writing her own material, she has also taught playwriting at Brown University, Providence College, and Rhode Island College.She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island"Interview. Tim Sanford And Gina Gionfriddo" Playwrights Horizons, accessed August 29, 2015 and currently resides in New York City, where she is a single mother.

Work

She has written for both the stage and for television. She tends to write dark comedies of topics that occasionally touch on the abuse of women and often features male protagonists.WEB,weblink Playwright Gina Gionfriddo asks, in her new play, 'Rapture, Blister, Burn,' and her life: What do women want?, Soloski, Alexis, May 29, 2012, Politico, December 13, 2019, U.S. Drag features a series of assaults, After Ashley features rape and murder, Becky Shaw has a robbery at gunpoint.

Television

She was a writer for the television series Law & Order. René Balcer, the head writer and executive producer of Law & Order, hired her after he read her play After Ashley. Balcer said: “She really has an ear for the dialogue of everyday Americans and the quirkiness of everyday Americans... the kind of people you see being interviewed on Nancy Grace.”

Stage

For her writing she has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2002 for U.S.Drag (in a tie with Susan Miller),Ehren, Christine. " 'A Map of Doubt and Rescue', 'U.S. Drag' Win 2002 Blackburn Prize" playbill.com, February 12, 2002 the 2002 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights,Hernandez, Ernio. "'After Ashley' Wins "Bug ‘n Bub" Playwright Award; Reading Held in NYC, Dec. 8" playbill.com, November 26, 2003 and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship."Gina Gionfriddo Creative Arts" Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed August 29, 2015WEB, Lortel Archives,weblink Director Peter DuBois and Gionfriddo met at Brown University in the 1990s, and DuBois directed her thesis production (U.S. Drag) there. He has directed her plays Rapture, Blister, Burn, Becky Shaw, and Can You Forgive Her?.Hartigan, Patty. "Career vs. family in ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ Boston Globe'', May 25, 2013U. S. Drag was presented by the Connecticut Repertory Theatre Playwrights' Lab (Storrs, Connecticut) in July 1998 in a workshop, directed by Anna Shapiro.Simonson, Robert and Lefkowitz, David. "Connecticut Rep Inaugurates Playwrights' Lab June 26" playbill.com, June 26, 1998 The play was next produced by Clubbed Thumb at the HERE Arts Center, New York City in June 2001. The play was directed by Pam MacKinnon. It was produced from February 23, 2008, to March 16, 2008, Off-Broadway by the stageFARM at the Beckett Theatre, directed by Trip Cullman.Gionfriddo, Gina. "Script, p. 7" U. S. Drag, Dramatists Play Service Inc, 2006, {{ISBN|082222111X}}" 'U. S. Drag' Listing, stageFARM" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726151545weblink |date=2015-07-26 }} thestagefarm.org, accessed August 29, 2015Her play After Ashley received the 2005 Obie Award, Performance for Kieran Culkin.WEB, Adam Rapp and Gina Gionfriddo on American Theater, Adam Rapp & Gina Gionfriddo, The Brooklyn Rail, 2007-11-07,weblink Simonson, Robert. "Shanley, Hughes, Culkin, Marvel, O'Connell Among 2005 Obie Winners" playbill.com, May 17, 2005Becky Shaw, which premiered Off-Broadway in 2008, was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Gans, Andrew and Jones, Kenneth. weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150924201149weblink">"Lynn Nottage's 'Ruined' Wins Pulitzer Prize for Drama" playbill.com, April 20, 2009Gionfriddo's play, Rapture, Blister, Burn premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in June 2012. brooklynrail.org The original Off-Broadway cast, which featured Amy Brenneman and Lee Tergesen, performed the play at the Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, California in August 2013.Purcell, Carey. "Original Cast of 'Rapture, Blister, Burn,' Featuring Amy Brenneman and Lee Tergesen, to Reunite for Geffen Playhouse" playbill.com, July 9, 2013 The play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama."Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2013" pulitzer.org, accessed August 28, 2015Can You Forgive Her? premiered in Boston at the Huntington Theatre in March 2016.You Forgive Her? broadwayworld.com, February 24, 2016 It was directed by Peter Dubois.Goodwin, Jeremy D. "Financial insecurity? Playwright Gina Gionfriddo can make it funny.", Boston Globe, March 24, 2016

Plays

• Safe (2000) (short)
• Guinevere (2001)
• U.S. Drag (2001) (Originally produced by Clubbed Thumb)
• After Ashley (2004)
• Squalor (2007) (short)
• Becky Shaw (2008)
• Rapture, Blister, Burn (2012)
• Can You Forgive Her? (2016)

Television

• House of Cards (2013)
• Law & Order (Episodes: Betrayal, Driven, Executioner, Bogeyman, Lost Boys)
• (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) (Episodes: Country Crossover, (Masquerade (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)|Masquerade), Vacancy, Dollhouse, Prisoner, Beast, Bombshell)WEB, Gina Gionfriddo, IMDB,weblink
• Cold Case (Episode: Schadenfreude)
• Law & Order True Crime (Episodes: 3 and 6, Season 1)
• The Alienist (TV series) (Episodes: 3 and 4, Season 1)

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