Mary Crescenzo

About Mary Crescenzo

MARY CRESCENZO

Dramatists Guild; ALAP; SAG-AFTRA 

Marylala.mc@gmail.com; 914 907 9381

PRODUCTIONS: Playwright

Planet A (Piece of Mind) - Classic Stage Company, 13th Street, New York (NYC International Fringe Festival);  Shades Repertory Theatre, Haverstraw, N.Y.; Topanga Library Stage; Longmont Theater, Longmont, Colorado (staged reading).

The Tram - A one act play: Italian American Museum, NY; Dramatists Guild, NY; Roosevelt Island, Outdoor Theatre; Shades Repertory Theatre, Haverstraw, NY

The Alzheimer’s' Monologues - The Producers Club, 49th Street, New York ; Studio Two, Peekskill, New York

Memory & the Muse: Multidisciplinary collaborative performance piece - writer/director,  Range Projects Gallery, Los Angeles.  

Swimming Home - one woman show, Ford Studio, Peekskill, New York

The Old Woman Who Slew the Dragon-fox - The Howland Cultural Center, Beacon, New York

Where’s Fannie? Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights Reading Festival

The Everyday Life of Kids - (a musical review) White Plains Civic Center, New York

Sinister Corona - Hudson Valley Coronavirus Festival, New York

Solo shows - There Are Reservations About This, Love Blood, Sex Blues and Bukowski, Tulsa

Librettist:

Mezmeralda, Magic and the Woman in All of Us - Tulsa Children’s Opera Chorus Summer Workshop, operetta 

PUBLICATIONS:

Author: The Planet Alzheimer’s Guide

Nonfiction - periodicals, newspapers: (the arts, food, film, travel, essay, environment, etc.) 

The New York Times; Cosmopolitan; Playboy; The Huffington Post (blog); Santa Fe Reporter; The New Mexican; Nevada; Tulsa World; The Writer; Highlights Expecting; High Performance

Poetry/Prose: (sampling)

Anthologies -  Yale Divinity School literary journal, Reflections; Looking for Home: Women Writing about Exile/Milkweed Edition; The Epistolary Form & The Letter as Artifact/Pig Iron Press; What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Relationship Like This... Crossing Press; la bella figura: a choice - malafemmina press; Woman As Is - Dell; Paragraph

Literary Journals - Italian-Americana (editor Dana Goia); West Wind Review; Plainswoman, Phoenix; la bella figura; California Quarterly; Passaic Poetry Center; Caribbean Writer; Trapani Nuova (Italy); Fan

AWARDS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: (sampling)

2022 Recipient of an Individual Maude’s Award through the Richard and Maude Foundation, Seattle, for “Innovations in Alzheimer’s Care” through arts engagement. Playwright Festival award, Edward Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, New York; semi-finalist in the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Works Center National Playwrights Conference; winner of the James J. Nicholson Political Poetry Prize, NY; winner of the Annual Greenburgh Poetry Contest, NY (Mary Crescenzo is also a recipient of several Lifetime Arts, Inc. Creative Aging Grants, as a teaching artist for older adults.

ACADEMIC SUMMARY: Lehman College, New York - BA/Art Education; College of New Rochelle, New York, graduate studies - art therapy; American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York; MLS/creative writing, University of OK OTHER

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Location Casting director/feature films (Coppola, Disney, ABC, Warner Bros., Paramount, etc.); Broadcaster - WPLJ FM (ABC, NY); Jazz chanteuse; actress; installationist; editor; teaching artist (LA, NY, Santa Fe, Tulsa, Topanga);