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'''Gina Gionfriddo''' is an American [[playwright]] and television writer. Her playplays ''Becky Shaw'' wasand a''Rapture, 2009Blister, Burn'' were finalistfinalists for the 2009 and 2013 [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]], andrespectively. herShe playhas written for the television series ''Rapture,Law Blister& Order'', Burn''Law was& aOrder: 2013Criminal finalistIntent'', for''FBI: theMost PulitzerWanted'', Prize''The forAlienist'', Drama.and She''House hasof written for the television seriesCards''.

Gionfriddo grew up in [[Washington, D.C.]], where she attended [[Georgetown Day School]].<ref name=times>Cohen, Patricia. [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/theater/30gina.html?pagewanted= "Onstage, Tackling Ambition and Crime"] ''The New York Times'', December 29, 2008</ref> She graduated from [[Barnard College]] of [[Columbia University]] and completed [[Brown University]]'s MFA (MFA 1997) playwriting program where she studied with [[playwright]] [[Paula Vogel]].<ref name=vogelteach>{{cite web|title=Tuning In With Gina Gionfriddo |work=Philadelphia Theatre Company |url=http://www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/pdfs/PTCplaywise_2006_ashley.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013000601/http://www.philadelphiatheatrecompany.org/pdfs/PTCplaywise_2006_ashley.pdf |archivedate=2007-10-13 }}</ref><ref name=brown>Goodman, Lawrence. [http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3408&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=28 "Art and Life"] ''Brown Alumni Magazine'', May/June 2013</ref>

She has lived in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], [[Rhode Island]] <ref>[http://www.playwrightshorizons.org/shows/trailers/tim-sanford-and-gina-gionfriddo "Interview. Tim Sanford And Gina Gionfriddo"] ''Playwrights Horizons'', accessed August 29, 2015</ref> and currently resides in [[New York City]], where she is a single mother.<ref name=brown/>

She was a writer for the television series ''[[Law & Order]]''. [[René Balcer]], the head writer and executive producer of ''Law & Order'', hired her after he read her play ''After Ashley''. Balcer said: “She really has an ear for the dialogue of everyday Americans and the quirkiness of everyday Americans... the kind of people you see being interviewed on Nancy Grace.”<ref name=times/>

For her writing she has received the [[Susan Smith Blackburn Prize]] in 2002 for ''U.S.Drag'' (in a tie with Susan Miller),<ref>Ehren, Christine. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/a-map-of-doubt-and-rescue-u.s.-drag-win-2002-blackburn-prize-103928# " 'A Map of Doubt and Rescue', 'U.S. Drag' Win 2002 Blackburn Prize"] playbill.com, February 12, 2002</ref> the 2002 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights,<ref>Hernandez, Ernio. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/after-ashley-wins-bug-n-bub-playwright-award-reading-held-in-nyc-dec.-8-116596# "'After Ashley' Wins "Bug ‘n Bub" Playwright Award; Reading Held in NYC, Dec. 8"] playbill.com, November 26, 2003</ref> and a 2005 [[Guggenheim Fellowship]].<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/gina-gionfriddo/ "Gina Gionfriddo Creative Arts"] Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, accessed August 29, 2015</ref><ref name="providence">{{cite web |title=Lortel Archives |url=http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&first=Gina&middle=&last=Gionfriddo}}</ref> Director Peter DuBois and Gionfriddo met at [[Brown University]] in the 1990s, and DuBois directed her thesis production (''U.S. Drag'') there. He has directed her plays ''Rapture, Blister, Burn'' and, ''Becky Shaw'', and Can You Forgive Her?.<ref name=peter>Hartigan, Patty. [https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2013/05/25/career-family-gina-gionfriddo-play-rapture-blister-burn/lkVl6I9ItcqTkQcaigclFL/story.html# "Career vs. family in ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’] ''Boston Globe'', May 25, 2013</ref><ref name="providence"/>

''U. S. Drag'' was presented by the Connecticut Repertory Theatre Playwrights' Lab (Storrs, Connecticut) in July 1998 in a workshop, directed by [[Anna Shapiro]].<ref>[[Simonson, Robert]] and Lefkowitz, David. [http://www.playbill.com/news/article/connecticut-rep-inaugurates-playwrights-lab-june-26-76245# "Connecticut Rep Inaugurates Playwrights' Lab June 26"] playbill.com, June 26, 1998</ref> The play was next produced by [[Clubbed Thumb]] at the HERE Arts Center, New York City in June 2001. The play was directed by [[Pam MacKinnon]]. It was produced from February 23, 2008, to March 16, 2008, Off-Broadway by the stageFARM at the Beckett Theatre, directed by Trip Cullman.<ref>Gionfriddo, Gina. [https://books.google.com/books?isbn=082222111X "Script, p. 7"] ''U. S. Drag'', Dramatists Play Service Inc, 2006, {{ISBN|082222111X}}</ref><ref>[http://thestagefarm.org/shows-us-drag.htm " 'U. S. Drag' Listing, stageFARM"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150726151545/http://thestagefarm.org/shows-us-drag.htm |date=2015-07-26 }} thestagefarm.org, accessed August 29, 2015</ref>

* ''[[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]'' (Episodes: ''Country Crossover'', ''[[Masquerade (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)|Masquerade]]'', ''Vacancy'', ''Dollhouse'', ''Prisoner'', ''Beast'', ''Bombshell'') <ref name=lo:ci>{{cite web |title=Gina Gionfriddo|work=IMDB |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2059056/}}</ref>

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