Frank Pugliese
FRANK PUGLIESE (Playwright) Aven'U Boys (Off-Broadway, Obie Award,) The King of Connecticut, The Talk, The Alarm (all with Naked Angels); The Summer Winds (NY Stage and Film); Hope is the Thing with Feathers (The Drama Dept). Regional: The Talk (Williamstown). As one of the Naked Angels' first Artistic Directors, Frank helped develop: The Issues Project, Tuesdays at Nine and Angels in Progress. Frank also directed many Off-Broadway productions. Frank won the Forbes Herman award for playwriting. Franks is also a former NYU Intern, Playwright in Residence Hall at the Royal Court in London. Frank was honored by New York University's Tisch School of the Arts fifteenth anniversary, as their outstanding alumni in the field. Frank is a proud member of Naked Angels, Drama Dept., and is the co-founder of both The Writer's Group and the Screenwriter's Collective. Frank is a consultant for the Cherry Lane/Alternative Mentor program for young playwrights. He is on the advisory board for the Labyrinth Theatre Company and sits on the artistic committee for Naked Angels. Frank teaches screenwriting and playwriting at Columbia University. TV: Night of the Living Dead, Homicide (WGA Award); and Love and Blood for Fallen Angels (Cable Ace Award Nomination); The Beat (The Season Finale.) Film: Aven'U Boys (in development); 29th Street (for Paramount and produced by Fox); Born to Run (produced by Fox); Dion (based on Dion and the Belmonts, Baltimore Pictures); Shot in the Heart (directed by Agnieszka Holland, produced by Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana); Italian (Greenstreet producing.) Bio as of October, 2009. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) Playwright and Director - April, 1993 - Watch now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)