Being the personal chronicle of a life in American Theatre:

From the glory days of the Off-Broadway movement, to theatre’s present decline,
and towards its uncertain future.

“Conerico Was Here to Stay” was Gagliano’s first Off-Broadway hit. It took place on the New York subway station.

Welcome

WELCOME TO
FRANK GAGLIANO’S SITE

Welcome to my Website.

Come on in and explore my Off-Broadway productions and full play and musical theatre catalogue (texts and mp3 tracks); various short play-and-prose Bits and Pieces; a novel (Anton’s Leap); assorted Facebook TributesArticles and Essays; and (after a teaching career spanning 40 years) my insights into the art and craft of the writing of plays.

Whether you write, direct, produce plays or act in them; or just enjoy reading play texts; or if you want to get a sense of the exhilarating 1960’s energy that triggered this journey to today . . .  you might find navigating through this new www.gaglianoriff.com a rewarding journey.

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My works

“One will never be able to accuse Frank Gagliano of being a writer who has forgotten that it is called ʻplayingʼ for a reason.” – Greg Holt

Access my plays, musicals, monologues, articles, and essays here!

 

Blog

MyBlog

. . .a potpourri of stuff. . .

Gagliano Projects In Development

Gagliano Projects In DevelopmentTo Gaglianoriff.com followers, who might be intrigued by these fragments—(that were aborted pre and pro Covid Pandemic). Why were they aborted? Who knows? But reading these fragments anew, I’ve become interested in all of them again....

A UKRAINE ODYSSEY (2005)

A recently discovered chronicle, chronicling the beginnings of my Ukraine visits and connections — while giving the Ukraine reading/performances of my play —“My Chekhov Light,” — in Kirovohrad (via Kyiv) in 2005, and at the Chekhov Festival in Yalta, 2012

Contact

Get InTouch

Email:

sandrico@aol.com

 

Location:

Pittsburgh, PA

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