Gina Gionfriddo

Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer.

For her writing she has received an Obie Award, cite web |title=Adam Rapp and Gina Gionfriddo on American Theater, Adam Rapp & Gina Gionfriddo |work=The Brooklyn Rail |date=2007-11-07 |url=http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/11/theater/in-dialogue-nov07] the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, cite web |title=Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2002 |date=April 2002 |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4309/is_200204/ai_n15022442] the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. cite web |title=Lortel Archives |url=http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Gina&middle=&last=Gionfriddo] She has written for both the stage and for television. She graduated from Barnard College and also completed Brown University's MFA playwriting program where she studied under Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Paula Vogel. cite web |title=Tuning In With Gina Gionfriddo|work=Philadelphia Theatre Company |url=http://www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/pdfs/PTCplaywise_2006_ashley.pdf] In addition to writing her own material, she has also taught playwriting at Brown University, Providence College, and Rhode Island College.

She has lived in Washington D.C., and Providence, Rhode Island cite web |title=Lortel Archives |url=http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Gina&middle=&last=Gionfriddo] but currently resides in New York City.

Plays

* "America's Got Tragedy" (2008) (short)
* "Becky Shaw" (2008)
* "Squalor" (2007) (short)
* "After Ashley" (2004)
* "U.S. Drag" (2002)
* "Guinevere" (2001)
* "Safe" (2000) (short)

Television

* "Law & Order" (Episodes: "Betrayal", "Driven", Executioner, "Bogeyman", "Lost Boys")
* ' (Episodes: "Country Crossover", ', "Vacancy", "Dollhouse", "Prisoner", "Beast", "Bombshell") cite web |title=Gina Gionfriddo|work=IMDB |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2059056/]
* "Cold Case" (Episode: "Schadenfreude")

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