Gionfriddo has written for both the stage and for television. She tends to write dark comedies of topics that occasionally touch on the abuse of women and often features male protagonists. [8] U.S. Drag features a series of assaults, After Ashley features rape and murder, and Becky Shaw has a robbery at gunpoint. [8]
Stage
Gionfriddo received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2002 for her play U.S. Drag (in a tie with Susan Miller), [9] the 2002 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, [10] and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. [11] [12] Director Peter DuBois and Gionfriddo met at Brown University in the 1990s, and DuBois directed her thesis production (U.S. Drag) there. He has directed her plays Rapture, Blister, Burn, Becky Shaw, and Can You Forgive Her? [13] [12]
U. S. Drag was presented by the Connecticut Repertory Theatre Playwrights' Lab in Storrs, Connecticut in July 1998 in a workshop, directed by Anna Shapiro. [14] The play was next produced by Clubbed Thumb at the HERE Arts Center, New York City in June 2001. The play was directed by Pam MacKinnon. It was produced off-Broadway from February 23, 2008, to March 16, 2008, by the stageFARM at the Beckett Theatre, directed by Trip Cullman. [15] [16]
Gionfriddo's play After Ashley received the 2005 Obie Award for Performance for Kieran Culkin. [17] [18]
Becky Shaw , which premiered off-Broadway in 2008, was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [19]
Gionfriddo's play Rapture, Blister, Burn premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in June 2012. [20] The original off-Broadway cast, which featured Amy Brenneman and Lee Tergesen, performed the play at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles in August 2013. [21] The play was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. [21] [22]
Can You Forgive Her? premiered in Boston at the Huntington Theatre in March 2016. [23] It was directed by Peter Dubois. [24]
