Professor DiIorio received a B.A. from Clark University and an M.F.A. from City University of New York in 1987. He has been at Clark since 1989 and is currently program director for Theater. Current Research and TeachingProfessor DiIorio has acted in numerous films, soap operas, and television commercials, as well as over 100 plays in NYC and regionally. His new play Darwin at Down won 2nd place in the 2007 Julie Harris Playwriting Competition. His play Apostasy was produced Off Broadway at the Urban Stages Theatre in 2007. In the same year, Gino also won Urban Stages “Emerging Playwright” Award. His play The Hard Way won 1st place in the BBC’s 2005 International Playwriting Competition. Other plays have received numerous productions including: Centennial Casting, co-written with Nancy Bleemer, (world premiere, Penguin Repertory Theatre), Winterizing the Summer House (world premiere, New Jersey Repertory Theatre) and Are You the Wife of Michael Cleary?, (world premiere, Abymill Theatre, Fethard, Ireland). In 2003, he won the Berrilla Kerr Award for Playwriting (2003). His plays have been finalists at New Dramatists and The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Festival. He has written a number of screenplays including Fatboy and Morally Straight. White Noise, his first full-length play, received 2nd Prize in the 1997 Delaware Theatre Company's "Connections" Contest for plays dealing with racial themes. The play also received a Pilgrim Project Grant and was a 2000 Humana Festival Finalist at the Actors' Theatre of Louisville. He was awarded a Higgins School Grant for his play Are You the Wife of Michael Cleary?, and he is the recent recipient of a Hayden Junior Faculty Fellowship (2006). |
