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Gina Gionfriddo

Gender
Female
Nationality
American
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Play
Genres
Dark Comedy, Drama

Gina Gionfriddo is an American writer for stage and television. She graduated from Barnard College and completed an MFA in playwriting at Brown University, where she studied under Paula Vogel. One of her first plays, U.S. Drag, earned her the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights in 2002. Her best-known plays are Becky Shaw and Rapture, Blister, Burn, both of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She’s also written After Ashley and Can You Forgive Her?

Gionfriddo’s work is characterized by dark humor and crime or abuse. In addition to plays, Gionfriddo has written for the TV series Law and Order and The Alienist. She has taught playwriting at colleges and universities throughout the United States and lives in New York City. She has also lived in Providence, Rhode Island, which is one of the settings of Becky Shaw.

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