Don Nigro is an American playwright; his plays Anima Mundi and The Dark Sonnets of the Lady have both been nominated for the National Repertory Theatre Foundation's National Play Award.
11 Facts About Don Nigro
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Don Nigro has won a Playwright's Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment For The Arts, grants from the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation and the Ohio Arts Council, and twice been James Thurber Writer In Residence at the Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio.
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Don Nigro was born on September 30,1949 and currently lives near Malvern, Ohio.
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Don Nigro received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Ohio State University in 1971 and a Master of Fine Arts in dramatic arts from the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1979.
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Don Nigro has written more than 500 plays, 201 of which have been published by Samuel French, Inc in 58 volumes.
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Don Nigro's plays about art and artists include Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch Interiors, Blood Red Roses, The Daughters of Edward D Boit, Netherlands, Sphinx, Madonna, Europe After The Rain, Picasso, and City of Dreadful Night,.
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Don Nigro's Inspector Ruffing plays include Mephisto, Demonology, The Rooky Wood, Creatures Lurking In The Churchyard, Ravenscroft, Widdershins, and Phantoms.
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Don Nigro is known for his cult work The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It, subtitled Being the record of one company's attempt to perform the play by William Shakespeare.
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Don Nigro's plays are frequently done by many Off Off Broadway companies in New York, and in Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, and other cities in Ukraine during the war with Russia.
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Don Nigro's plays have been translated into Italian, French, German, Spanish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Russian, Greek, Polish, Dutch, Lithuanian and Chinese.
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In 2016 Don Nigro Giovanni was produced by the Yermolova Drama Theatre in Moscow, Gorgons at the Aggelon Vima Theatre in Athens, Greece, and Nebuchadnezzar at the Vene Theatre in Tallinn, Estonia.