Here's a look at Joe Pintauro, first playwright featured in our STRIPP3D Festival in collaboration with East 3rd Productions...RAFT OF THE MEDUSA, directed by Barefoot Theatre Company Producing Artistic Director, Francisco Solorzano will open the festival on Oct 5th, 2011. All productions will take place at the legendary, Cherry Lane Theatre...
JOE PINTAURO
PLAYS: CACCIATORE (three one act plays) ,
SNOW ORCHID, (selection Eugene O’Neill 1980, Circle Rep, London’s Gate, Noittinghill).
WILD BLUE, (Perry St., 49 st. Theatre)
MOVING TARGETS, (Vineyard
Theatre NYC)
BESIDE HERSELF (Circle Rep.)
RAFT OF THE MEDUSA (Minetta Lane etc.)
MEN’S LIVES, (adaptation) Bay St. Theatre etc)
HEAVEN AND EARTH, (adaptation) Bay St. Theatre
REINDEER SOUP (ACT SanFrancisco)
METROPOLITAN OPERAS (27 one act plays, etc.)
AMERICAN DIVINE, (Dolphinback, Chicago)
BY THE SEA (DAWN, collaborative trilogy w. Lanford Wilson, Terrence McNally. (Bay St. Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club).
WHAT I DID (7 one act plays) Guild Hall, E. Hampton.
SALVATION, (London’s Gate, Nottinghill)
THE DEAD BOY, Eugene O’Neill, 1999 (DODE JONGEN, Netherlands)
KARMA BOOMERANG, 2005 (Pacific Resident Theatre)
Pintauro's poems: Harper & Row, also in collaboration with artists, Corita Kent and Norman LaLiberte. His three one acts about Italian American life in NYC, entitled CACCIATORE earned his first major theatre reviews. SNOW ORCHID, his
first full length. became a selection of the Eugene O'Neill Conference and later with Olympia Dukakis, Peter Boyle and Robert Lupone at Circle Rep. A revival in London, starred Jude Law and Paola di Ognisotti. Short plays: AMERICAN DIVINE, in Chicago and "MOVING TARGETS" New York City's Vineyard Theater, Metropolitan Operas, Milenium Group, NYC. have been compared to Jame's Joyce's THE DUBLINERS. Full length plays: BESIDE HERSELF, with William Hurt, Lois Smith, Calista Flockhart and Melissa Joan Hart. RAFT OF THE MEDUSA: Minetta Lane and London's Gate Nottinghill (SALVATION). MEN'S LIVES, an adaptation of Mattheissen's non fiction book, was the innaugural production of the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor. THE DEAD BOY, about faith and trauma: work-shopped at London's Royal Court under Stephen Daldry and again there with Ian McKellan. Pintauro directed THE DEAD BOY in Dutch language in the Netherlands as: DODE JONGEN, with Anton Lutz and most recently with Roy Scheider and Mercedes Ruehl, again in workshop in Key West. His collection of some forty short plays called, METROPOLITAN OPERAS (Dramatists Play Service, NYC, are oproduced in various languages world wide including the Comedia del Arte in Venetia under Carla Poli. The trilogy BY THE SEA, BY THE SEA, BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA, a collaboration with Terrence McNally and Lanford Wilson, was produced by The Bay Street Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. HEAVEN AND EARTH, about American Farm life, also a Bay Street production, was directed by Jack Hofsiss. Pintauro has recently completed BEAUTIFUL DREAMER, a Civil War screenplay about the only woman to ever receive the Congressional medal of Honor and is working on two new full length plays with The Pacific Theatre Company, in Los
Angeles, KARMA BOOMERANG and DANCE NITE ON THE RIVER QUEEN.
Joe studied poetry with Leonie Adams at Columbia University. He taught fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence and N.Y.U's Tisch, film making at Marymount College and The School of Visual Arts, N.Y. He taught playwriting at Southampton College. Pintauro was playwright for the 2003 Southampton Writers Conference. THE DEAD BOY was a selection of the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference. "STATE OF GRACE." his novel was published by Times Books. His novel, COLD HANDS, Simon and Schuster, was widely reviewed and singled out by the New York Times as one of the best novels of the year. Pintauro has studied cinematography under George Stoney, NYU, has a B.B.A. from Manhattan College, a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Jerome's College, Kitchener, Ontario and four full time years of Theology at Our Lady of Angels Seminary, Niagara University. He was recently awarded the Margaret Hill innaugural chair in theatre at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame and was named recipient of the 2005 John Steinbeck literary award.
RAFT OF THE MEDUSA: Minetta Lane and London's Gate Nottinghill (SALVATION). MEN'S LIVES, an adaptation of Mattheissen's non fiction book, was the innaugural production of the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor. THE DEAD BOY, about faith and trauma: work-shopped at London's Royal Court under Stephen Daldry and again there with Ian McKellan. Pintauro directed THE DEAD BOY in Dutch language in the Netherlands as: DODE JONGEN, with Anton Lutz and most recently with Roy Scheider and Mercedes Ruehl, again in workshop in Key West.
Over a dozen books of Pintauro's poems were published by Harper & Row in the 1970's. His three one acts about Italian American life in NYC, entitled CACCIATORE, garnered his first major theatre reviews. SNOW ORCHID, his first full length played starred Olympia Dukakis, Peter Boyle and Robert Lupone at Circle Rep. The London version starred Jude Law and Paola di Ognisotti. His larger collection of short plays called METROPOLITAN OPERAS, led to many productions in that title as well as AMERICAN DIVINE, in Chicago and "MOVING TARGETS" produced by New York City's Vineyard Theatre. Full length plays are: BESIDE HERSELF, Circle Rep, with William Hurt, Lois Smith, Calista Flockhart and Melissa Joan Hart. RAFT OF THE MEDUSA at the Minetta Lane and London's Gate Nottinghill (under the title, SALVATION). MEN'S LIVES, a dramatic adaptation of Mattheissen's non fiction book, was the innaugural production of the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor. THE DEAD BOY, about trauma in today's Catholic priesthood, was work-shopped at London's Royal Court under Stephen Daldry and again there with Ian McKellan. Pintauro directed the play in Dutch language in the Netherlands under the title DODE JONGEN, with Anton Lutz.
METROPOLITAN OPERAS (Dramatists Play Service, NYC, are oproduced in various languages world wide including the Comedia del Arte in Venetia under Carla Poli. Ie: REX (2008 Oct.) running in San Paolo in Portuguese.
The trilogy BY THE SEA, BY THE SEA, BY THE BEAUTIFUL SEA, a collaboration with Terrence McNally and Lanford Wilson, ran at Bay Street Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. HEAVEN AND EARTH, about American Farm life, also at Bay Street directed by Jack Hofsiss.
Pintauro has recently completed BEAUTIFUL DREAMER, a Civil War screenplay about the only woman to ever receive the Congressional medal of Honor for bravery under fire in the Civil War.
Joe studied poetry with Leonie Adams at Columbia and with Dorothy Van Ghent also of Columbia. He studied Henry James and Wallace Stevens with Marious Bewley and himself taught fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence and N.Y.U. He taught film making at Marymount and The School of Visual Arts, N.Y.C
His plays SNOW ORCHID, 1980 and THE DEAD BOY 1999 were selections of the Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference.
His novel, COLD HANDS, Simon and Schuster, was widely reviewed and singled out by the New York Times as one of the best novels of the year.
Pintauro studied cinematography under George Stoney, has a B.B.A. from Manhattan College, a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Jerome's College, Kitchener, Ontario, completed courses for his M.A. at Fordham University in American Literature and completed four full time years of Major Theology at Our Lady of Angels Seminary, Niagara University.
2001 recipient of the Margaret Hill innaugural chair in theatre at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame. 2005, recipient of the John Steinbeck literary humanitarian award. 2008 Guild Hall Lifetime achievement award.
