GEORGE SAPIO (PLAYWRIGHT)
is an award-winning playwright, director, dramaturg and actor who lives in a really small town outside Ithaca, NY. His latest work is Oatmeal and a Cigarette, a one-act alternative family dramedy; OAC was awarded the Critic's Pick of the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe Festival. His previous play, And They Lived Happily Ever After, was commissioned by the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY, and produced in June 2006. His other plays include Kynges Games, a historical dramedy about Richard III, Ghosts, which won the 2001 Mildred and Albert Panowski Award, Headstrong, a comedy about Middle English, impotence and dismemberment, and Better Than Nothing, currently in development. He is the founder of three local theatre groups: Wolf’s Mouth Theatre Collective, the Brobdingnagian Players and Bad Dog! Productions. He received his M.F.A. in creative writing/playwriting from Goddard College in 2007. He is also a freelance writer and photojournalist who has published a book, “Collateral Damage,” which features his pictures from two trips to Iraq in 2003.

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