Occupation Playwright Books A tantalizing Education Rutgers University | Role Playwright Name William Mastrosimone | |
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Born August 19, 1947 (age 76)
Trenton, New Jersey ( 1947-08-19 ) Plays Extremities, Bang Bang You're Dead, The Woolgatherer Awards Outer Critics Circle Award for John Gassner Playwriting Award Movies Extremities, The Beast, With Honors, The Burning Season, Xanadu Similar People Robert M Young, Guy Ferland, Robert Greenwald, Kevin Reynolds, John Frankenheimer | ||
Stage magazine interviews playwright william mastrosimone
William Mastrosimone (born August 19, 1947) is an American playwright and screenwriter from Trenton, New Jersey. He attended high school at The Pennington School and received a graduate degree in playwrighting from Mason Gross School of the Arts, a part of Rutgers University.
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- Stage magazine interviews playwright william mastrosimone
- Extremities by william mastrosimone my fall 2014 scene final for fundamentals of acting
- References
His plays include The Woolgatherer, Extremities, Shivaree, and Cat's Paw. He also wrote Bang Bang You're Dead, which was once able to be downloaded from the Internet and performed by students for free. Other plays include The Afghan Women and Nanawatai, upon which the film The Beast is based. Two recent plays are Sleepwalk, a story again focusing on the traumas of modern teenage life, and "Dirty Business", a play about a party girl caught between the mafia and the newly elected President of the United States.
Mastrosimone's first play was The Woolgatherer which premiered at Rutgers Theatre Company in New Jersey of 1979.
His screenwriting credits include, With Honors, Into the West and the adaptation of his play Extremities. He won 2 Daytime Emmy Awards for Bang, Bang You're Dead and was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy for Into the West and The Burning Season.
His play "Bang Bang You're Dead" is being toured by 'Playground Theatre Project' with students from Actor's Playground School of Theatre (in NJ), directed by Ralph Colombino, based in the Tri-State Area. This company goes to middle schools, high schools, and universities to prevent violence.