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This second volume of acclaimed plays by Award-Winning Playwright, Novelist, Poet and Actor Daniel Damiano contains 12 of his short works spanning 25 years of his playwriting career. Varied in style and tone but rooted in engaging and diverse characters in highly compelling stories, the plays explore everything from convicts in a prison barber shop, to British women at a possibly nefarious tea engagement, to two New Yorkers fighting addiction at a diner just weeks after New Year's, to an elderly couple's surreal quest to survive despite terminal diagnoses, and much more. The brilliant variety and depth of the material in this collection is a true treat for any Theatre lover or practitioner. Includes: CUT (2011 Arts & Letters Prize for Drama Finalist), THE DESSERT CART (2024 David A. Einhorn Playwriting Prize Recipient) and THE LEPERS (2019 Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon). CUT (2011 Arts & Letters Prize Finalist) """"...a fascinating character study..."" Steve Allen, Stage Door St. Louis THE ART OF TEA ""This Wildean-inspired comedy of manners was a joy to watch and the perfect way to end the first half of the evening."" Michael Davis, Female Arts (UK) ""Four Stars - Damiano takes a loving pot-shot at British sensibilities creating a comic piece of nuance and intrigue."" GrumpyGayCritic (UK) THE DESSERT CART (2024 David A. Einhorn Playwriting Prize) ""...the evening's best and most surprising. The play ripens into a surreal exploration of the different ways people define satisfaction, and the toll taken by our convergent definitions."" Jeffrey Lewonczyk, nytheatre.com DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE MEXICAN LAUNDRESS? ""It's refreshing to expose excesses of the Department of Homeland Security through satire.- The play is Kafka-meets-the-Keystone-Kops and it's another high point of the festival."" Lydia Howell, Pulse of the Twin Cities

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Daniel Damiano is an Award-winning Playwright, Screenwriter, Poet, Novelist and Actor based in Brooklyn, NY. His plays have been performed throughout many areas of the U.S., as well as London, England and Sydney & Melbourne, Australia. His acclaimed play DAY OF THE DOG premiered with St. Louis Actors' Studio in 2013 and subsequently transferred to 59E59 in NYC in 2014. It was a 2013 St. Louis Critics Choice Best Play Nominee, and was published by Broadway Play Publishing in 2018. Other more recent productions of his work include HARMONY PARK (""4 Stars"" - Detroit Free Press, with Detroit Repertory Theatre), THE LEPERS (Ensemble Studio Theatre, NYC) and his acclaimed solo plays AMERICAN TRANQUILITY (which has been lauded in both NYC and Washington DC) and, most recently, ONE WITH THE CURRENT, which had an acclaimed run in NYC in the fall of '23. His new play THE WILD BOAR was a Finalist for the 2022 Dayton Playhouse Futurefest, and was 2019 Finalist for both the Woodward/Newman Award and the Janet & Bruce Bunch Award. He has been the recipient of the Christopher Brian Wolk Award for Playwriting, in addition to being a 2013 Nominee for the Pushcart Poetry Prize and a Finalist for the 2012 Arts & Letters Prize for Drama. His debut novel, THE WOMAN IN THE SUN HAT was published in March 2021 through fandango 4 Art House (Seattle Book Review Recommendation). His short story, ""The Gift of What For"" is included in Palm Circle Press' Short Story Anthology 2021. His poetry book, 104 DAYS OF THE PANDEMIC, was released in September 2021, by fandango 4 Art House. His poetry has been published in Gyroscope Review, Quagmire Magazine, Curlew Quarterly, Crooked Teeth Literary Magazine, Newtown Literary Journal, New Voices Anthology, Cloudbank and HotMetal Press. His second novel, GRAPHIC NATURE, was released in December 2022. In the Summer of 2022, fandango 4 Art House released PLAYS BY DANIEL DAMIANO, Volume 1, the first collection of Mr. Damiano's full-length plays (""Harmony Park"", ""The Golden Year"" & ""The Dishonorable Discharge of Private Pitts""), and in June 2025, PLAYS BY DANIEL DAMIANO, Volume 2 (Short Plays). In May 2024, Bottlecap Press released Damiano's second book of poetry, THE CONCRETE JUNGLE AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS. His third novel, ADVICE FROM A CAT, was released in October 2024, through fandango 4 Art House. In December, he was the recipient of the 2024 David A. Einhorn Playwriting Prize.

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