JOHN MOROGIELLO is a Playwright in Residence at the Maryland State Arts Council and a member of The Dramatists Guild. A new play, Blame It On Beckett, will be produced off-Broadway this fall at Abingdon Theatre Company. In April 2012, his comedy Engaging Shaw will be produced at The English Theatre of Vienna, Austria. The play was previously produced at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Abingdon Theatre Company (The L Magazine’s Top Ten Things We Saw In 2010), New Jersey Rep, and Oldcastle Theatre Company. Other plays include Stonewall’s Bust (Mountain Playhouse), Irish Authors Held Hostage (Greenwich Street Theatre in NYC, Warehouse Theater in Washington–both produced by J.T. Burian Theatricals–and Edinburgh’s Bedlam Theatre), Men and Parts (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shadowbox Cabaret), Gianni Schicchi (Rep Stage, Center Stage), The Matchmaker’s Guide to Controlling the Elements (National Theatre, 2Co’s Cabaret, Alleyway Theatre), Chancellorsville (Kennedy Center, Canadian Stage Company) and Bushwa: A Modern Ubu (Georgetown Theatre Company, Confetti Stage). Happy Hour, a film adaptation of Men and Parts, was named Best Short Comedy at the 2003 New York Independent Film and Video Festival and was distributed in Europe by Britshorts. Awards include: The Kennedy Center Fellowship of the Americas, Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Award, and Baltimore Magazine’s “1996 Best Up and Coming Playwright.” Mr. Morogiello’s articles have been published in The Washington Independent Review of Books, American Theatre, Dramatics, and in programs and study guides for Long Wharf Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Everyman Theatre, and Belmont Playhouse. In December, an excerpt from A Thing For Redheads will be published by Smith and Kraus in Best Women’s Stage Monologues And Scenes 2011. Next year Smith and Kraus will publish Men And Parts in their Best 10 Minute Plays 2012 anthology. Short plays Larry’s Resolution, The Periodontal Blues and The Little Farmer are available through their publisher, One Act Play Depot.