Resume

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Bio.

Amy Dellagiarino is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced across the country. Her play From the Perspective of a Canoe won the Playwriting Script Competition at the 2021 Austin Film Festival, her play The Value of Moscow was nominated for a 2019 Stage Raw Award for Best Playwriting, and her pay Hello, My Name Is... won Best Writing with the LA Drama Critics Circle in 2025. Her comedy feature film Freelancers Anonymous, co-written with Lisa Cordileone, won the 2018 NCGLFF Audience Award for Best Women’s Feature, was a recipient of the Frameline Completion Fund Award, and earned the Reframe Stamp for gender balanced media. Her short film Shift Change garnered Best Short among several film festivals. Published works include The Value of Moscow through Stage Rights and The Most Precious Thing, which is included in The Best 10-Minute Plays 2023 through Smith & Kraus. Her short plays have garnered the Best Comedy award in various festivals and she has participated in developmental readings and workshops with noted LA theatre companies such as Sacred Fools, Theatre of Note, Rogue Machine Theatre, Moving Arts, Inkwell Theatre, The Road Theatre, and The Blank Theatre Company. She was a 2021 participant of the Kennedy Center Playwrights Intensive as well as the resident playwright with Dark Horse Theatre Company in Virginia and a founding member of Walking Shadow Readers Theatre which focuses on new playwrights and new play development. She earned her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Education.

New York University's Tisch School of the Arts BFA 2006
The Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive 2021

Awards/Honors.

Best Writing (Original): Hello, My Name Is... Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2026
Finalist: Best Production: Hello, My Name Is...   Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2026
Finalist: Best Ensemble: Hello, My Name Is... Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2026
Best Ensemble: Hello, My Name Is...   Stage Raw Awards 2026
The Top 20 of 2025: Hello, My Name Is...   Don Shirley, Angeles Stage 2025
Semi-Finalist: The Magnolia Project    BlueCat TV Writing Competition 2025
Quarter-Finalist: No Exit ScreenCraft Horror Competition 2025
Best Play Nominee: From the Perspective of a Canoe 2024 BWW Appleton, WI Awards 2024
Best Low Budget Film: Shift Change Golden Swan Zurich Film Festival 2024
Best Narrative Short: Shift Change Santa Clarita International Film Fest. 2024
Best Short: Shift Change   Bridges International Film Festival 2024
Best Short: Shift Change Fallbrook Bonsall Film Festival 2024
Semi-Finalist: The Taste of Emeralds Princess Grace Award 2023
Top 10%: The Farewell Tour Slamdance Screenplay Competition 2022
Second Rounder: The Farewell Tour Austin Film Festival 2022
Honorable Mention: The Farewell Tour Finish Line Script Competition 2022
Quarter-Finalist: The Farewell Tour ScreenCraft Feature Competition 2022
Semi-Finalist: The Taste of Emeralds Gary Marshall Thtr New Works Fest. 2022
Playwriting Script Competition Winner: From the Perspective of a Canoe Austin Film Festival 2021
Best Comedy Winner: In Search of Plan A WSRT One Acts 2021
Semi-Finalist: From the Perspective of a Canoe Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2021
Best Playwriting Nominee: The Value of Moscow Stage Raw Awards 2019
Best Comedy Winner: The Misfit Mantra 2Cents Theatre INKFest 2018
Jury Award Winner: Best Women’s Feature Film: Freelancers Anonymous NCGL Film Festival 2018
ReFrame Stamp Winner: Freelancers Anonymous ReFrame 2018
Completion Fund Award Winner: Freelancers Anonymous Frameline 2017
Spirit of the Fringe Award Finalist: Break In Hollywood Fringe Festival 2016
1/2 Hour Comedy Pilot Writing Semi-Finalist: Just Be: An Emo Bromance   SeriesFest 2015
(co-written with Leigh Poulos)

Plays. Full Lengths.

I Think You Should Die Workshop - The Road Theatre 2026
From the Perspective of a Canoe Production - Art Crush LA 2026
  University Production - University of Wisconsin Oshkosh 2024
   Reading - Austin Film Festival 2021
Reading - Tuesdays@9 Los Angeles 2020
Hello, My Name Is… Production - Moving Arts Theatre 2025
Reading - Best Medicine Rep 2021
Workshop - Moving Arts Theatre 2020
The Value of Moscow Production - Elgin Theatre Company 2025
      Production - The Impossible Players 2024
   Production - Dark Horse Theatre 2019
Production - Sacred Fools Theatre 2018
Reading - Sacred Fools Theatre 2017
Reading - Rogue Machine Theatre 2016
The Hostage Situation Workshop - Inkwell Theatre 2025
   Reading - Tuesdays@9 Los Angeles 2016
Sicko    Workshop - Flux Theatre Ensemble West 2024
The Taste of Emeralds Reading - New Jersey Repertory Company 2024   Workshop - The Inkwell Theatre 2023
   Reading - Walking Shadow Readers Theatre 2022
Workshop - Garage Theatre Ensemble 2021
No Loitering Reading - The Morgan-Wixson Theatre 2023
   Reading - Theatre of Note 2019
Spirit Seekers Zoom Production - We All Shine Productions 2022
   Zoom Production - Dark Horse Theatre 2020
Clownfish Production - Theatre of Note 2022
Reading - Brimmer Street Theatre 2019
A Conversation Through the Bathroom Door       Zoom Production - Bloomsburg University 2021
Zoom Production - Dark Horse Theatre 2020
Dorm #5 Reading - Walking Shadow Readers Theatre 2020
  Reading - The Blank Theatre 2018
Reading - Grey Theatre Ensemble 2016
Break In   Production - Hollywood Fringe Festival 2016
Limbo (co-written with Leigh Poulos) Production - Monkey See Monkey Do Productions 2007

Plays. Shorts/One Acts.

The Most Precious Thing Production - Victoria School of the Arts 2026
     Production - Marshall University 2026
     Production - University of South Carolina Sumter 2026
Production - City Island Theater Group 2025
     Production - Mercyhurst University 2025
     Production - Little Fish Theatre 2025
      Production - Western Colorado University 2024
  Production - Liberty Bell High School 2024
   Production - Brown Couch Creatives 2024
  Production - Old Library Theatre 2023
Production - Pend Oreille Players 2023
   Production - The Actors Studio of Santa Cruz County 2023
Staged Reading - The Storefront Theatre 2023
   Reading - Camino Real Playhouse 2023
   Production - The Actors Studio of Newburyport 2022
   Production - Winding Road Theatre Ensemble 2022
Production - Anacostia Playhouse 2022
Production - Fargo Moorhead Community Theatre 2022
Cinnamon Raisin   Production - The Kinkaid School 2025
     Production - Blank Page Theatre Company 2022
In Search of Plan A Production - Brown Couch Creatives 2024
Zoom Production - Walking Shadow Readers Theatre 2021
Production - Arc Theatre 2015
One Fish, Two Fish Production - American Lives Theatre 2022
The Misfit Mantra Zoom Production - Walking Shadow Readers Theatre 2022
   Production - 2Cents Theatre 2018
Inhale and Exhale Production - 2Cents Theatre 2019
Production - Something Marvelous Theatre 2015

Films and Scripted Series.

Shift Change Short 2024
Employee of the Month Comedy Short 2020
The Convergence Sci-Fi Series 2018
Freelancers Anonymous Comedy Feature 2018

Publications.

The Most Precious Thing   Smith & Kraus: The Best 10-Minute Plays 2023 2023
The Most Precious Thing   Canyon Voices Literary Magazine 2022
The Value of Moscow Stage Rights 2019
13 Things I Wish I Could Tell My 21-Year-Old Self Collegehumor.com 2015
Jenny Morgan: Certified Genius Amazon.com 2015

Artistic Statement.

Let’s face it: the human experience is a cascade of horrors: everything’s expensive, we are all so tired, and why is that one neighbor so annoying? (You know the one, as soon as you read that a face popped into your mind, you can admit it, we’re all friends here.) But isn’t it so human to simultaneously long for connection but not that kind, to want to be fulfilled but not in that way, to be able to leave your mark but not there? We are constantly striving for something, something, something that most likely we can’t even name… and it’s this longing, these contradictions that I love exploring the most.

In times of great stress and turmoil, we often find we don’t feel just one thing, we feel many, and most are at odds with each other. It feels impossible and yet we’re experiencing it, and how can that be? We feel isolated, wondering who could possibly understand. Was there ever anybody else that felt this way? We want to be alone to unpack it, and yet being alone is the exact thing we fear the most.

And into these existential questions I love to weave in the close relationships that will call us on our bullshit, that won’t allow us to take potshots at ourselves, that will reach into our dark corners and drag us from them, whether we are ready or not, proclaiming “I am here to show you that even in this, even in your deepest hole, you are not alone.” It’s the friends you’ve had since childhood that can still quote lines from your favorite movie, it’s the roommate you had after college who knew which spoon was your favorite, it’s your family that have been there since your existence, that try as you might you cannot hide from, because they know all your tricks, and they both love you for them and in spite of them.

The humor in my work comes from these relationships, because although we might not all understand what it’s like to lose a family member, we sure do know what it’s like to have a sibling who chews too loudly, a mother who can never say the right thing, a father who is constantly distracted. We recognize these things and we laugh, while at the same time we also cry, because isn’t life so consistently wonderful and terrible? And what a burden and a privilege to get to say “this is my life, I do not know what I am doing here and yet here I am anyway.”

Because although life is full of horrors, it is also beautiful, and very, very funny… if you only give yourself permission to see it.

amy dellagiarino
playwright. artist. screenwriter.