| | Philip Vassallo |
| |  Philip Vassallo has written numerous produced plays, including What Do You Charge for Cure?, How Silent Do I Sound?, Do I Bleed in the Dark?, Isn't This the Way You Wanted Me?, How You Get to Main Street?, The Spelling Bee, Ask Me, Everything Means Something Else, The Phoenix, The Community Service, Family Secrets, The AFI's Top 10 Movie Quotes, Waiting, and So What If Life Is a Cliche? His licensed plays are The Spelling Bee (Samuel French), Everything Means Something Else, The Phoenix, and So What If Life Is a Cliche? (Brooklyn Publishers) Family Secrets and What Are You Running For? (Hit Plays) and The Eye Begins to See, The Author Makes No Difference, Every Day's a Holiday, and Hurry Hurry: Twelve Dramatic and Comedic Sketches (Green Room Press). Other published plays include Questions Asked of Dying Dreams and A Case-by-Case Basis: Four Short Plays (Mgarr Publishing). He is also the author of three instructional books (How to Write Fast Under Pressure, The Art of E-mail Writing, and The Art of On-the-Job Writing), two essay collections (Person to Person: Essays from Two Centuries and The Inwardness of the Outward Gaze: Learning and Teaching through Philosophy), and two volumes of poetry (Like the Day I Was Born: 40 Poems, 40 Places, 40 Days and American Haiku). He has received several honors: New Jersey State Council on the Art playwriting grant Critic's Choice, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival Gettysburg College One-Act Play Festival Award Finalist, Morton R. Sarett Playwriting Award, Ruby Lloyd Aspey Playwriting Competition, and White-Willis Theatre New Playwrights Contest and Semifinalist, Park Avenue Methodist United Church Playwriting Festival, Albert Panowski New Play Award, and Strawberry One-Act Festival. | |
| | | Visit Philip Vassallo's web page: http://dramatistsguild.com/members/philipvassallo | | | Plays by Philip Vassallo with Green Room Press: | | AUTHOR MAKES NO DIFFERENCE | | EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY | | EYE BEGINS TO SEE | | HURRY HURRY | | WHAT ARE YOU RUNNING FOR? | |
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