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Stephen Gracia is a graduate of Brooklyn College’s MFA Poetry program. His first play, Complete Control, was produced at the DUMBO Theater Exchange in Brooklyn, NY. Subsequent plays include: Subway Series and Fast Food Strategies (Producers Club, Manhattan), Waving and Drowning (DUMBO Theater Exchange), The Hunger Arts (Makor Theatre at the 92^nd Street Y, Manhattan), Next! (American Theater of Actors, The Sargent Theatre, Manhattan), Assfuck Brooklyn and My Love is in Amerikay (Theaters at 45 Bleecker, Manhattan), and A Wig Full of Spiders (Harrogate Theatre and The World’s End Pub, Yorkshire, England.) His poetry has been published in Riverrun, The Brooklyn Review, and Slipstream, and he has read at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and ABC No Rio. Stephen also records harsh electronic music under the name Rhythm & Detonation and contributed an original score to a revival of Jeffrey M. Jones’s Crazy Plays at BRIC Studio and original songs to the off-broadway production of CJ Thom’s Eightballs at the Lafayette Theatre.
Stephen Gracia is a member of Barefoot Theatre Company and currently serves as Literary Manager.