Marc Palmieri
Guest Faculty
Office
NAC 6/302
Phone
212-650-8182
212-561-9499
Website
Marc Palmieri
Profile
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,” Levittown, The Groundling, Poor 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
Additional Information
NY Times theatre review 2009: http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/theater/reviews/17levitt.html
NY Times feature/interview 2009: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/theater/12mcel.html?_r=1&ref=theater
IMDB listing: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658583/
Website: www.marcpalmieri.com
Research Interests
Dramaturgy
Playwriting
Screenwriting
Web Filmmaking
Independent Filmmaking
Screen and Stage Adaptation
Directing