Marc Palmieri

Instructor, Communication Studies

School of Liberal Arts

Education

Wake Forest University

B.A. Speech, Communications & Theatre Arts

CUNY, The City College of New York

M.A. Creative Writing

CUNY, The City College of New York

M.F.A. Creative Writing

Bio

Marc taught Dramatic Writing for the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The City College of New York since 2010. Since 2006 he taught Shakespeare, Modern & Postmodern Drama, Fiction, Playwriting, Creative Writing, and World Humanities for the undergraduate English Department, and Acting at Passaic County Community College. Member of Actors Equity and The Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA. Marc has appeared in 12 national television commercials, numerous stage productions, and played the lead in the IFP Spirit Award - nominated feature, TOO MUCH SLEEP (Shooting Gallery, 2002). Screenwriting credits include TELLING YOU (Miramax Films, 1999). His plays, all of which are published by Dramatists Play Service and all of which premiered in NYC, include LEVITTOWN (NY Times Critic's Pick), THE GROUNDLING, CARL THE SECOND and POOR FELLAS. His collection of plays for Middle School students, S(COOL) DAYS is published by Brooklyn Publishers. He has directed plays for the stage, the short film Sonnet 138 for The Sonnet Project & Shakespeare's Globe Viewer, and the webseries THE THING (www.theplayis.com). He has published twice in Fiction Magazine, multiple Smith & Kraus and Applause Books Anthologies. Marc attended Wake Forest University on a baseball scholarship after being drafted by The Toronto Blue Jays in the 1989 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, and graduated 2nd in All-time wins in 1994.

He considers the Speech and Voice classes he took as an undergrad as just about the most important things he ever did, besides raising his two kids, which is an ongoing project.

Articles

Stephen McElroy 2009 That Family Room? It Has a Certain Star Quality New York Times CLVIII, 54,734 AR4 0362-4331

Alexis Soloski 2015 The Groundling, A Backstage Farce With Heartbreak New York Times C4 0362-4331

Neil Genzlinger 2009 Home is Where Emotions Are Frayed New York Times C5 0362-4331

Kerry M. King 2015 "Love's Labour's Lost" Meets "The Groundling" Wake Forest Magazine 0279-3946

Alina Suriel 2015 Web Series Follows Out-Of-Work Actor in Flushing Queens Chronicle

Mark Blankenship 2015 Just Move The Car and Stage The Play TDF Stages

Marc Palmieri 2018 "On 'the Ripening of the Intellectual Powers'" The Keats Letters Project 1054964855

Cherin C. Poovey 2013 What's Up With Marc Palmieri? Wake Forest Magazine 0279-3946

Daniel Bubbeo 2015 Rising Stars on Long Island Newsday 0278-5587

Books

Marc Palmieri 2015 The Groundling Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York, NY. 9780822233473

Marc Palmieri 2007 Levittown Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York, NY. 9780822221890

Marc Palmieri 2003 Carl The Second Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York, NY. 0822218860

Marc Palmieri 2001 Poor Fellas Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York, NY. 0822217953

Marc Palmieri 2015 "Little Mom" 10-Minute Plays for Kids Applause Books Milwaukee, WI. 9781495053399

Marc Palmieri 2015 "The Groundling" The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2015 Smith & Kraus, Inc. Hanover, NH. 9781575258966

Marc Palmieri 2013 "When I Wore Floods" Fiction, #59 Fiction, Inc. New York, NY. 2527480497

Marc Palmieri 2007 "Levittown" The Best Stage Scenes of 2007 Smith & Kraus, Inc. Hanover, NH. 9781575255880

Marc Palmieri 2003 "Carl The Second" The Best Stage Scenes of 2002 Smith & Kraus, Inc. Hanover, NH. 1575253283

Marc Palmieri 2020 S(COOL) DAYS, PLAYS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS BY MARC PALMIERI BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS Cedar Rapids, Iowa. TBA

Marc Palmieri 2020 An Afternoon Meal 100 Monologues from New Plays Applause/Limelight Lanham, MD. TBA

Professional Accomplishments

Awards

Jerome Lowell Dujur Award in Creative Writing 2004
New York Times Critic's Pick 2009

Public Events

The Center for The Humanities/Turnstyles Reading Series Public reading of fiction CUNY Graduate Center, NYC 2017
CCNY MFA Reading Series Featured Faculty Writer NYC 2014
South Coast Repertory/New SCRipts Series Staged reading of THE GROUNDLING Costa Mesa, CA 2012
Bangor Opera House/Northern Writes New Play Festival Staged reading of THE GROUNDLING Bangor, MN 2011
Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre/Exposure Festival Staged Reading of LEVITTOWN, directed by Thomas Kail New York, NY 2004
Paramount Studios/Hollywood Film Festival World premiere of TELLING YOU Hollywood, CA 1999
South by Southwest Film Festival World premiere of TOO MUCH SLEEP Austin, TX 1997
Anthology Film Archives/Fall Festival Series Launch premiere screening of web series THE THING New York, NY 2012
Festival Cine Futuro Screening of Sonnet #138 film Brazil 2013

Performances

Theatre Southwest Full production of THE GROUNDLING Houston, TX 2017
Summer Circle Theatre Full production of THE GROUNDLING East Lansing, MI 2016
Passaic County Community College Full production of short plays from POOR FELLAS Paterson, NJ 2016
The Theatre Project Full production of THE GROUNDLING Maplewood, NJ 2016
University of Southern Mississippi Full production of THE GROUNDLING Hattiesburg, MS 2017
Axis Company Professional premiere of THE GROUNDLING New York, NY 2015
Theatre At Saint Clements Full production of LEVITTOWN New York, NY 2009
Axis Company Professional premiere of LEVITTOWN New York, NY 2006
Long Island Fringe Festival Staged Reading of LEVITTOWN Long Island University at CW Post 2009
Los Angeles City College Theatre Dept. Full production of short play from POOR FELLAS LACC 2011
Long Beach City College Theatre Full production of CARL THE SECOND Orange County, CA 2004
Altered Stages Professional premiere of CARL THE SECOND New York, NY 2001
Bosakowski Theatre Professional Premiere of POOR FELLAS New York, NY 2000
Theatre Nebula Full production of CARL THE SECOND Chicago, IL 2005
Phare Play Productions Full production of CARL THE SECOND New York, NY 2007
Museum of TV & Radio Production & Broadcast on NPR of plays from POOR FELLAS New York, NY 2000
Kansas Stage Penitentiary Production of plays from POOR FELLAS Lansing, Kansas 2007
Asheville Community Theatre Production of The Groundling Asheville, NC 2018
Louisiana Tech University Theatre Production of The Groundling Ruston, LA 2018
Rabun-Gap Nacoochee School Theatre Department Production of Poor Fellas Rabun Gap, GA 2018
North Village Theatre Company Production of The Groundling Long Island, NY 2019
Burlington Footlighters Production of The Groundling Cinnaminson, NJ 2020
40+ Theatre Company Production of Levittown Winston-Salem, NC 2020

Presentations

Marc Palmieri, Director, Actors Equity Assoc., Screen Actors Guild April, 2017 January, 2019 Parent/Child Arts Workshop Series, "Family Theatre Night", Queens, New York

Marc Palmieri, Instructor, Mercy College April, 2019 110th Annual Conference , Providence, RI

Lou Grasso, Justin Kessler, Jason Zalinger, Marc Palmeri, Jade Snyder, Steven DeRose (all Mercy College) October, 2019 Theory vs. Practice, Bridging The Gap, Callicoon, NY

Contact Information

Victory Hall, 209B

555 Broadway

Dobbs Ferry

10522

914-888-5206

mpalmieri2@mercy.edu