Angelo Parra

Angelo Parra

Angelo Parra is an American playwright. He was born in Manhattan and grew up in The Bronx, New York City. After graduating from Fordham University, his career included work as a reporter/photographer, public relations professional, politician, free-lance writer, and PR and journalism teacher at New York University before turning to theatre in 1986. His first produced play, "Casino", was presented at T. Schreiber Studio, and won a 1989 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship in Playwriting and an Arts International grant (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Information Agency, Rockefeller Foundation, and The Pew Charitable Trusts), among other awards.

His best-known work, [http://www.parrasite.homestead.com/Bessie.html "The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith] ," the critically acclaimed play with music on the life of Bessie Smith, was named "one of the top-10 Off-Broadway experiences of 2001" by the "New York Daily News", "Best Solo Show" by Florida's "Broward/Palm Beach New Times", and won a second NYFA Playwriting Fellowship (2000). The award-winning show was originally directed by Joe Brancato and originally staged by [http://www.penguinrep.org Penguin Repertory Company] , Stony Point, New York.

Parra has production credits: in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C.; at [http://www.floridastage.org Florida Stage] (Palm Beach), [http://www.hartfordstage.org The Hartford Stage] (Hartford, CT), [http://www.theatrememphis.org Theatre Memphis] , and at the [http://www.capeplayhouse.com Cape Playhouse] (Cape Cod); and, at the [http://www.eif.co.uk Edinburgh International Festival] .

Among Parra's other prize-winning plays is the hospital drama, [http://www.parrasite.homestead.com/HOF.html "Journey of the Heart"] (formerly titled "A Heart of Flesh"), winner of the Jewel Box Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, and David James Ellis national play awards in 1998. Also in 1998, "Song of the Coquí", his Hispanic family drama with humor and dance, won the Chicano/Latino Literary Award (University of California, Irvine) and an "American Dream" prize by Repertorio Español in New York City.

Parra is a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop and The Dramatists Guild. He was a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the 2000 Sewanee Writers Conference, and has taught playwriting at [http://www.sunyrockland.edu SUNY Rockland Community College] . In addition to his BA in Communication Arts at Fordham, he earned an MA in Political Science at the New School in New York, and MFA in Playwriting at Brooklyn College. He is currently president of the [http://www.penguinrep.org "Penguin Repertory Company"] Board of Trustees.

Along with the children's musicals "Percy T. Penguin Comes to America" and "Anansi the Spider Learns his Lesson", Parra's other plays include:
*"Canvases"
*"The Price of Honor"
*"Prickasaurus"
*"The Slope"
*"Warmflesch"
*"A Waltz Without Turns"
*"Midnight Kiss"
*"What is it With Me?"

External links

* [http://www.t-s-s.org T. Schreiber Studio]
* [http://nyfa.org/home.html New York Foundation for the Arts]
* [http://www.parrasite.homestead.com/Bessie.html "The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith"]
* [http://www.parrasite.homestead.com/HOF.html "Journey of the Heart"]
* [http://www.bmi.com/musicaltheatre/lengel.asp The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop]
* [http://www.dramaguild.com The Dramatist Guild]
* [http://www.sewaneewriters.org Sewanee Writers Conference]
* [http://www.ramapo.edu Ramapo College of New Jersey]


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