I am a mid-career playwright, director, producer, actor, and dramaturg. My play Ghosts won the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award. A later play, Oatmeal and a Cigarette was awarded Critics' Pick at the 2008 Cincinnati Fringe and subsequently published by Broadway Play Publishing.

 

My most recent play is Acqua Tofana, about Gironima Spana, a 16th-century Italian seer, midwife, alchemist, and professional poisoner.​ 

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Several of my shorter plays have appeared in recent “Best of” anthologies. 

 

In response to new playwrights colleagues asking me about my development experiences, I wrote the how-to book Workshopping the New Play: A Guide for Playwrights, Directors, and Dramaturgs (published by Globe Pequot Books). 

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For the past ten years I have produced and hosted the podcast Onstage/Offstage, featuring interviews with theatre professionals from around the world and live readings of new short plays. 

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And because I believed that Ithaca, NY, desperately needed new and exciting theatre blood, I co-founded and served as the artistic director of the Ithaca Fringe Festival (2013-2017).

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I am a MacDowell Fellow; my residency was in March 2023.

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Websites:

OnstageOffstage podcast: www.onstageoffstage.org; 
NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/users/785/george-sapio