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Published on: 10/5/2009
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Anthony P. Pennino:
Director of New Works
Anthony P. Pennino has been director of Metropolitan New Works since the spring of 2003.
East Village Chronicles were his invention, and he coordinates the commissioning of plays and contacts with playwrights.
Mr. Pennino himself is is a playwright and director who has been working in the off-off-Broadway community for years.
His New York City playwriting credits include: Call It Peace: Meditations from North America (2003, 13th Street Rep; 2002, Jade Productions); Call It Peace: The Long, Twilight Struggle (2002, Jade Productions); The A-Train Plays (2002 and 2003, Neighborhood Playhouse); "Avatar" (2002, Native Aliens); Story of an Unknown Man (2000, Gorilla Rep); and "Forgeries of Jealousy" (2000, Gorilla Rep).
Call It Peace: Meditations from North America was also produced at the Finborough Theatre in London, United Kingdom in 2002 as was Survivors the previous year.
Pennino has also written extensively for the radio with his World War II series City of Shadows . New York directing credits include: Kerouac by Tom O'Neal, A Soldier's Death by Tom O'Neal, "Falling Through the Cracks" by Craig Pospisil, Washington Square Dreams for Gorilla Rep, and Poor Fellas by Marc Palmieri.
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Martin Denton of nytheatre.com has written of Pennino, "[S]uch audacious originality marks this playwright as one we need to keep our eyes on.
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"Mr. Pennino's skill as a playwright is clearly demonstrated in his manipulation of themes.
He deconstructs international politics and Western philosophy through a paradigm shift from the national to the individual experience," notes The Columbia Spectator.
"Forgeries of Jealousy" has been published by New York Theatre Experience.
He has been interviewed by both NPR (for its documentary Unscripted: The New York Theatre Responds to 9/11 ) and WNYU.
Mr. Pennino holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature from the University of London.
He is a member of the Workshop at Neighborhood Playhouse, The Players, and The Dramatists Guild of America.