Artwork by Marylou DiPietro

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Marylou DiPietro’s poems have been published in numerous literary magazines and her plays have been produced or developed in New York City, NJ, LA, Boston, San Francisco, and London. She wrote and performed in her one-woman show, In Love with Cancer, in the 2019 United Solo Festival in New York City. A monologue from that play was published in “The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2021” published by Smith & Krauss. An excerpt from In Love with Cancer was featured in the 2020 Women’s Writes Festival in London, and a staged reading took place at The Road Theatre in LA in the summer of 2022. Her play, Bone on Bone, opened the 2020 season at New Jersey Rep. Readings of her play, Black Butterflies, which depicts the tragic life of Rose Williams – sister and muse to Tennessee Williams – have been done at various stages of development at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts, at the Abingdon Theater and Playwrights Horizon in NYC, and at the Road Theater in LA. She is currently working with a London producer on adapting Black Butterflies into a screenplay. DiPietro received a master’s in theater education from Emerson College and a bachelor’s in creative writing from Syracuse University. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild and the New Play Exchange.
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