Marc Palmieri

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Main Affiliation

English

Office

NAC 6/302

Phone

212-650-8182

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Marc Palmieri

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Marc Palmieri is a playwright, author, screenwriter, director, dramaturge and actor who has taught for CCNY's English and MFA program in Creative Writing and is a full time Assistant Professor at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry. He is the author of numerous plays (published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.) and the memoir She Danced With Lightning (Post Hill Press, 2022)Marc wrote the original screenplay for Miramax Films’ Telling You, and has published in numerous literary journals and magazines. Marc is a fully vested member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity, and played the lead role in Shooting Gallery’s IFP Spirit Award-nominated feature film, Too Much Sleep, which received national theatrical distribution and television distribution on Starz. He has done national commercial campaigns for Pizza Hut, Heineken, Burger King, Verizon, Microsoft, Toyota and many others. Marc directed the film of Shakespeare’s Sonnet #138 for the Sonnet Project NYC, which is housed on line by the London Shakespeare Globe’s website. He wrote, directed and acted in the webseries The Thing. As a playwright, Marc has worked with Axis Company, Theatre at Saint Clement’s, South Coast Repertory, Penn State Centre Stage, Redhouse Theatre, The Lark Play Development Center, Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre and many more. His plays include the first American professionally produced play written for a streaming platform in 2020, Waiting For The Host, the 2009 New York Times “Critic’s Pick,” LevittownThe GroundlingPoor Fellas and Carl The Second. He is represented by Alex Glass of Alex Glass Literary, and by Carole Ingber & Associates for television commercials. Marc was also once a baseball player, drafted in 1989 in the Major League Amateur Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays. 

Education

B.A. in Communications, Theatre and Film, Wake Forest University
M.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing, The City College of New York, CUNY

 

Courses Taught

Drama Workshop (MFA Program in Creative Writing)
Screenplay Workshop (MFA Program in Creative Writing)
From Fiction to Scripts (MFA Program in Creative Writing)
Advanced Workshop in Drama (English Department)
Shakespeare II (English Department)
Modern and Post-Modern Drama (English Department)
Intro to Creative Writing (English Department)
Intermediate Creative Writing, Reading as Writers (English Department)
World Humanities I (Division of Humanities & the Arts)
World Humanities II (Division of Humanities & the Arts)

 

Publications

Books:  

Palmieri, Marc. She Danced With Lightning, Post Hill Press, 2022 

Palmieri, Marc. Waiting For The Host, Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 2021 

Palmieri, Marc. S(cool) Days, Plays for Middle Schoolers. Brooklyn Publishers, 2020

Palmieri, Marc. The Groundling, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 2015

Palmieri, Marc. Levittown, A Play in Two Acts. Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 2007

Palmieri, Marc. Carl the Second. Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 2004

Palmieri, Marc. Poor Fellas. Dramatists Play Service Inc., 2000

Literary Journals: 

Palmieri, Marc, Neighbors, Global City Review, Summer 2020

Palmieri, Marc. I.Q. Test, Fiction Issue #64, Fall 2019

Palmieri, Marc. When I Wore Floods, Fiction Issue #59, Spring 2013

Palmieri, Marc. New Jersey, 1983, Promethean Literary Journal, Spring 2007

Palmieri, Marc. Career Week, Promethean Literary Journal, Spring 2004

Anthologies (in which I have short plays or segments of my full-length plays): - Silverman, Larry, editor. The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020, Smith & Kraus, Inc., 2021

Harbison, Lawrence, editor. The Best Women’s Monologues of 2020, Rowman & Littlefield & Applause Books, 2020

Dalton, Mary, editor. Sharing Gratitude. Library Partners Press, 2019

Harbison, Lawrence, editor. 25 10-Minute Plays for Kids, Applause Books, 2015 Harbison, Lawrence, editor. The Best Stage Monologues for Men of 2015, Smith & Kraus, Inc. 2015

Harbison, Lawrence, editor. The Best Stage Scenes of 2007, Smith & Kraus, 2008

Lepidus, D.L. The Best Stage Scenes of 2002, Smith & Kraus, Inc. 2003

Lepidus, D.L. The Best Stage Monologues for Men of 2002, Smith & Kraus, Inc. 2003

 

Online Journals: 

Palmieri, Marc, “Birds and the Man”, (Re) An Ideas Journal, February 2021

Palmieri, Marc. “On the ‘Ripening of Intellectual Powers’”, The Keats Letters Project, Penn State University, January 2018 

 

Research Interests

Dramaturgy
Playwriting
Screenwriting
Web Filmmaking
Independent Filmmaking
Screen and Stage Adaptation
Directing