Frank Gagliano's Off-Broadway plays include CONERICO WAS HERE TO STAY (Cherry Lane Theatre); NIGHT OF THE DUNCE (first developed as THE LIBRARY RAID at Houston's Alley Theatre, later produced at Cherry Lane); FATHER UXBRIDGE WANTS TO MARRY (first developed at the O'Neill Theatre Center, produced at the American Palace Theatre); and THE CITY SCENE: IN THE VOODOO PARLOUR OF MARIE LAVEAU (also developed at the O'Neill Theatre Center, showcased in Phoenix Theatre Sideshow series). His other plays include THE HIDE-AND-SEEK-ODYSSEY OF MADELEINE GIMPLE; PRINCE OF PEASANTMANIA; CONGO SQUARE, a musical, with Broadway composer Claibe Richardson; THE RESURRECTION OF JACKIE CRAMER, a rock opera with composer Raymond Benson; BIG SUR; THE TOTAL IMMERSION OF MADELEINE FAVORINI; SAN YSIDRO, a cantata with composer James Reichert; HANNA; MY CHEKHOV LIGHT; FROM THE BODONI COUNTY SONGBOOK ANTHOLOGY, score by Claibe Richardson; EULOGY; THE FAREWELL CONCERT OF IRENE AND VERNON PALAZZO; SHAKE, WILDER, & YOUNG, with original music by Bill Young; AND THE ANGELS SING: THE SONGS OF JOHNNY MERCER, and the book for the musical PIANO BAR (AT THE CHATEAU DE LA MER), music and lyrics by Gene Nordan. Gagliano occupies the Benedum Chair in Theatre at West Virginia University, helped found Carnegie Mellon Drama's Showcase of New Plays in 1986, and was the Showcase's Artistic Director from 1986 to 1998. Mr. Gagliano is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, the Dramatists Guild, the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center and an alumnus of New Dramatists. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Theatre Association of Pennsylvania and was a panelist on the Pew Trust's Philadelphia Theatre Initiative. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting, two Rockefeller Foundation Playwriting Grants, an O'Neill Theatre Center/Wesleyan University Grant, a 1989 Pennsylvania Arts Council Playwrights Fellowship, and was awarded the grand prize for the 1999 International Ernest Hemingway Playwriting Competition for his play THE TOTAL IMMERSION OF MADELEINE FAVORINI.
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