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Anthony Giardina is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and
"CT's Long Wharf Enters Giardina's 'Black Forest' w/ World Premiere March 8-April 9"
playbill.com, March 8, 2000 Two plays, ''Black Forest'' and ''Custody Of The Eyes'', are published by
Anthony Giardina's Official WebsiteAnthony Giardina's Random House PageAnthony Giardina's Review of ''Haunting Midnight''
(published in the '' San Francisco Chronicle'')
Review of Recent History in the Austin Chronicle of Books
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Review of Giardina play
in '' The New York Times'' by Frank Rich
Review of White Guys in the ''San Francisco Chronicle''
by Mario Bruzzone
Anthony Giardina Papers
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giardina, Anthony 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Mount Holyoke College faculty University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty American male short story writers 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male essayists American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Massachusetts
Anthony Giardina is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
. Giardina started his professional career as an actor. He switched to play writing, and eventually began writing novels.
His work is particularly influenced by American culture in the 1950s. He was born in 1950 and grew up on a street in Waltham, Massachusetts, a largely Italian and Irish working class "sleeper" suburb of Boston on the trolley line to Cambridge. The protagonist's childhood neighborhood and schools in ''Recent History'' were largely modeled on Waltham.
Career
Giardina's plays have been produced in New Haven, New York City, and Washington, D.C. He is a regular contributor to publications such as '' The New York Times Magazine'', '' GQ'', ''Esquire
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'', and '' Harper's''. His books include ''Men With Debts'', ''A Boy's Pretensions'', ''Recent History'', ''The Country of Marriage'', and ''White Guys''.
His play ''Living At Home'' opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in December 1978. His play ''The City of Conversation'' opened Off-Broadway at the Lincoln Center Mitzi Newhouse Theater in May 2014, and was nominated for the 2015 Outer Critics Circle Award
The Outer Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for theatrical achievements both on Broadway and Off-Broadway. They are presented by the Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of New York theater writers for out-of-town newspa ...
for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play. HIs play
''Black Forest'' premiered at the Long Wharf Theatre, Connecticut in March–April 2000.Ehren, Christine"CT's Long Wharf Enters Giardina's 'Black Forest' w/ World Premiere March 8-April 9"
playbill.com, March 8, 2000 Two plays, ''Black Forest'' and ''Custody Of The Eyes'', are published by
Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Broadway Play Publishing Inc (BPPI) was established in New York City in 1982 to publish and license the stage performance rights of contemporary American plays. The Broadway Play Publishing Inc catalog consists of over 1,000 plays and nearly 400 ...
His most recent novel, ''Norumbega Park'', was released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on January 31, 2012.
Teaching
He has held teaching positions atMount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States.
...
, the University of Rochester the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and The University of Texas at Austin. Giardina currently teaches at Smith College
Smith College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts. It was chartered in 1871 by Sophia Smith (Smith College ...
.
Quote
Anthony Giardina on writing: ''"When I write fiction, I become the character I'm writing about, just as an actor becomes a character he's playing. You use parts of yourself, people you have known, things that have happened to you, but you're always aware that these things are being used to create a persona that's distinctly not you. Otherwise it wouldn't be any fun."''See also
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Background and career
The daughter of an American father ...
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Publications
He wrote ''Under the Light'', a collection of stories, "Strange Cowboy, Lincoln Dahl Turns Five" ...
References
External links
Anthony Giardina's Official Website
(published in the '' San Francisco Chronicle'')
Review of Recent History in the Austin Chronicle of Books
by Amanda Eyre Ward
Review of Giardina play
in '' The New York Times'' by Frank Rich
Review of White Guys in the ''San Francisco Chronicle''
by Mario Bruzzone
Anthony Giardina Papers
{{DEFAULTSORT:Giardina, Anthony 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American male novelists Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Mount Holyoke College faculty University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty American male short story writers 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male essayists American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Massachusetts