| MARC PALMIERI |
Marc Palmieri's stage plays, Poor Fellas, Carl The Second and Levittown all premiered in New
York City and are published by Dramatists Play Service. Portions of Carl and Levittown appear
in Smith & Kraus’ The Best Stage Monologues for Men 2002 and The Best Stage Scenes of 2002
and 2007. Levittown was presented at Axis Company in 2006. The play was revived at the
Theatre at Saint Clement's in 2009. Click here for Neil Genzlinger's "Critic's Pick" review
in the The New York Times. Click here for Steven McElroy's New York Times Sunday Arts feature.
In 2003 Marc was awarded the Jerome
DuJur Award in Creative Writing by the
English Department at the City College
of New York for Carl The Second.
Marc played the lead role in the critically acclaimed
feature film Too Much Sleep directed by David Maquiling
and released by Shooting Gallery in 2001. The film was
nominated for a 2002 Independent Spirit Award. On stage
he has worked with directors such as Nagle Jackson, Will
Pomerantz, Randy Sharp, Deloss Brown, George Demas, James
Dodding, Renee Philippi and Barry Edelstein. National
commercials include Heineken, Pizza Hut, Burger King,
ESPN, Nike, Fleet Bank and, most recently, Verizon,
Macy's, Toyota, NY Lottery and Microsoft (named by Time
Magazine as one of the Top 10 TV ads of 2011)
Marc wrote his first screenplay in 1995. The film, Telling You, was acquired and distributed
by Miramax Films after premiering at the 1998 Hollywood Film Festival.
Marc made his directorial debut with Mark Jay Mirsky's
Mother Hubbard's Cupboard at the 2007 New York International
Fringe Festival.
Marc is a founding member of The Cliplight Theater
and a member of the critically acclaimed Axis Company in NYC.
Marc attended Wake Forest University in North Carolina on a full athletic scholarship after
being drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1989 Major League Baseball amateur draft. He
graduated in 1994 with a B.A. in Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts with a Minor in
Drama. In 2004 he received his M.A. in Creative Writing at The City College of New York.
In the fall, Marc will begin teaching Playwriting in the English MFA department at The City
College of New York. Since 2006 he has taught Playwriting, Creative Writing, Shakespeare and
World Humanities in the English Department at CCNY. Marc is a fully vested member of Actors'
Equity Association, The Screen Actors Guild, The Dramatists Guild and The Professional Staff
Congress/CUNY.
(home page picture by Jenny Woodward)
'(These fair children) of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse'
W.S., Sonnet 2
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse'
W.S., Sonnet 2
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From Axis Company's Hospital 2006
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