John Morogiello is a Playwright in Residence at the Maryland State Arts Council and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. John’s Stonewall’s Bust was awarded the 2007 Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Award and will be produced in Jennerstown, PA this summer. His Engaging Shaw was recently produced by New Jersey Rep. John’s short comedies Fashion Specifics and Men and Parts were finalists for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where the latter play was produced. Happy Hour, a film adaptation of Men and Parts, was named “Best Short Comedy” at the 2003 New York Independent Film and Video Festival. John is a frequent collaborator with Martin Blanco, having worked under his direction as actor, author, and dramaturg at venues including Canadian Stage Company, Center Stage, the Kennedy Center, Rep Stage, Georgetown Theatre Company, and the Belmont Italian American Playhouse off-off Broadway.
In 1996, John was named “Best Up and Coming Playwright” by Baltimore magazine and received a Kennedy Center Fellowship of the Americas, during which he was in residency at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario. That same year he was asked to write a sample script for Guiding Light.
John’s articles have been published in American Theatre and Dramatics magazines, and in programs and study guides for Long Wharf Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Everyman Theatre, and the Belmont Playhouse.