| A. Giovanni Affinito |
| | A. Giovanni Affinito's plays have been produced throughout Connecticut, New York and California. They include On Golden Wings, a piece about composer, Giuseppe Verdi, Second Sunday in May, which placed first at the Mark Twain Masquers Playwriting Competition, sponsored by the Hartford Playwrights, Dinner at Darios, a gay-themed play that enjoyed two productions in New York City at the Theatre Studio Inc. and the Riant Theatre respectively. Dinner was produced as a fundraiser for the Tribeca area after 9/11. Agrippina received its world premiere in 2004 at the Shetler Theatre in New York produced by Theatre Rats, Inc. and was greeted by critical acclaim. The play later enjoyed a successful production at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood, California by Ten Forward as a fundraiser for Tippi Hedren's Shambala, a big cat preserve. Sarah Wants the Moon, a play about Sarah Bernhardt, received a workshop production at the Studio Theatre Inc. in New York City. Love and Death in Bohemia, a loose adaptation of Murger's Scenes de la Vie de Boheme is currently unproduced. Monologues and scenes from all of Mr. Affinito's plays appear in Smith and Kraus audition books, and a poem, Song of Passing Youth, is published in Celebration of Poets by the International Library of Poetry. Recently, his play, The Loyalist, placed first in the Connecticut Heritage Productions Play Festival of 2012. Mr. Affinito is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and resides on the Connecticut coast in West Haven with his dog, Dante, and his partner, Ken Kruger. | |
| | Plays by A. Giovanni Affinito with Green Room Press: | AGRIPPINA | |
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