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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. He is a full time Associate Professor at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, and also a faculty member at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, teaching screenwriting. He is the two-time recipient of Mercy's Outstanding Research Award (2023, 2025) and the Innovative Teaching Award (2022). He is the author of numerous plays (published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.) and the memoir She Danced With Lightning (Post Hill Press). 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. 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. His adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night premiered at Axis Company in 2024 and is published by Theatrical Rights Worldwide. e 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. He serves as Mercy University's pitching coach for their Division II baseball program. Marc was awarded at Citation of Honor from New York City in 2023 for his advocacy work in epilepsy awareness. 

Books:  

Palmieri, Marc. William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, A 90-Minute Adaptation, TRW, 2024

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 

Website:

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