Biography
Jason Pizzarello. Select plays include After People Like You (Blue Riders at Classic Stage Company), Half Right (Fordham Alumni Company), All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Being a Zombie (Irondale Ensemble), When I Had Three Sisters (Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab), Once There Was a Boy, (Semi-finalist, Princess Grace Award, O'Neill Playwrights Conference); InsideOut, (HERE Arts Center, Innovative Theatre Award nomination); and Saving the Greeks: One Tragedy at a Time, (Push Productions at the 14th Street Y Theater, NYC).
Four of his short plays have been selected by the Actors Theatre of Louisville as Heideman Award finalists. Fifteen of his plays are published by Playscripts, Inc. and have been produced in all 50 states as well as in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Kenya, Norway (translation), Pakistan, Portugal, Syria, Thailand, the UK, and United Arab Emirates.
Mr. Pizzarello is a graduate of Fordham University's Playwriting Program. He lives with his wife and daughter in Queens, New York. When not writing, he proudly serves in the NY Army National Guard and is currently the only playwright deployed in Afghanistan (probably). www.jasonpizzarello.com.
