Gina Gionfriddo

A 2009 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Becky Shaw (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival; Second Stage Theatre; Almeida Theatre in London). Her other plays include After Ashley (ATL’s Humana Festival; Vineyard Theatre); U.S. Drag (in New York by Clubbed Thumb and the stageFARM); and the one-acts Squalor and America’s Got Tragedy (the stageFARM). She has received an Obie Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an Outer Critics Circle Award, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights and an American Theatre Critics Association/Steinberg citation. She has written for the television dramas “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Cold Case,” “Borgia,” and “House of Cards” (upcoming from Netflix). She has contributed essays on rock music to the literary journal The Believer and short fiction to Canteen. Currently she is working on a new play commission from Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. (As of August 2010)

• “CRITIC'S PICK! INTENSELY SMART AND IMMENSELY FUNNY, with sharp-witted dialogue. Under the finely honed direction of Peter DuBois, the cast brings Gina Gionfriddo’s characters to fully felt life. Amy Brenneman exudes a brisk intelligence and a telegenic beauty. ”

  — Charles Isherwood, New York Times

• “4 STARS. A smart, funny, and lightning-paced look at feminism. The cast is top-to-bottom terrific. ”

  — Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News

• “WONDERFUL. It’s about feminism, and it’s fun! ”

  — Elisabeth Vincentelli, NY Post