Gina Gionfriddo was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Becky Shaw. The play was commissioned and first produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, and received its New York premiere Off-Broadway at Second Stage. Other plays include After Ashley (Humana Festival 2004, The Vineyard Theatre in New York, regional theatres throughout the country, and abroad in Poland); U.S. Drag (Off-Broadway by the stageFARM, Clubbed Thumb at HERE, and many regional productions); Guinevere (O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference); and the one-acts Squalor and America’s Got Tragedy (commissioned and presented by the stageFARM). Gina has received an Obie Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and an American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg citation. She has written for the television programs “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, “Cold Case”, and “The Borgias” (forthcoming). She has contributed essays on rock music to the literary journal, The Believer, and short fiction to Canteen. A graduate of the MFA Playwriting Program at Brown University, she has taught writing at Brown, Providence College, and Rhode Island College.
Becky Shaw
by Gina Gionfriddo
directed by Anne Kauffman
Meet the Artists
Cast
Brooke Bloom •
Becky Shaw
Jeremy Bobb •
Max Garrett
Janis Dardaris •
Susan Slater
Armando Riesco •
Andrew Porter
Danielle Skraastad •
Suzanna Slater
Production Team
Gina Gionfriddo •
Playwright
Anne Kauffman •
Director
Mimi Lien •
Set Designer
Thom Weaver •
Lighting Designer
Emily Rebholz •
Costume Designer
Christopher Colucci •
Sound Designer
Patreshettarlini Adams •
Stage Manager
Iain Campbell •
Production Manager
Gina Gionfriddo