| Anthony P. Pennino holds a Ph.D.
from Royal Holloway and New Bedford College, University of London. His dissertation,
currently being edited for submission for publication, is entitled All
Our Yesterdays: The Political and Social Significance of the History Play
in Great Britain, 1979-1995. He also holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting
from Columbia University, an M.A. in English from Columbia University, and
a B.A. in English from Columbia University. He is the author of Survivors
(originally produced at the Finborough Theatre in London) and Story of
an Unknown Man, an adaptation of a novella by Anton Chekhov (to be published
by New York Theatre Experience this year). He contributed “Forgeries
of Jealousy” to Gorilla Rep's 10-minute play festival Washington
Square Dreams (currently published in the anthology Plays and Playwrights
2001). He has also written The Casual Comedy, performed on Theatre
Row in New York City, and Contagion, workshopped at the Royal Court
Theatre in London. His continuing radio series City of Shadows –
set in Lyon, France during World War II – has aired on NPR in New York
and has starred Simon Jones. As a director, he has worked on Poorfellas
by Marc Palmieri and Washington Square Dreams. Pennino has also directed
Craig Pospisil's “On the Edge” for the American Globe's 15-Minute
Play Competition, where it was a finalist. He is an actor as well. Most
recently, he assayed the role of Caius Lucius in Gorilla Rep's Summer 2001
production of William Shakespeare's Cymbeline. He appeared as Simeonov-Pischtick
in productions of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in both New York and
Paris. He has also written extensively on Modernist literature, and his
essay on Charles Stuart Parnell, James Joyce, and William Butler Yeats has
been published by Greenwood Press. He is the literary manager of both Stage
Shadows, Inc. and Elite Fighting Crew, and he is a member of The Players,
The Dramatists Guild of America, and the SSDC. |