Charleston Revisited: A Two-Act Drama (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781469974415)

Gallo is a prolific producer, director and dramatist with over 60 works completed since he left his distinguished career as a nationally recognized food marketing economist in 1996. [EL 10] Gallo owns his own theater company, the Seventh Street Playhouse [EL 3], and motion picture company, Eastern Market Studios [EL 8]. While he defines himself as a Judea-Christian playwright, all of his plays are meant for general audiences. His only guiding maxim is that there are a million roads to God, "and I hope I am on the right one." Two of his plays are Holocaust dramas (Margherita, Eugenio); two are Biblical (The Agony of David, The Last Days of King Solomon); and five are about the American civilization (Vandergrift!, Lincoln and God, Better than the Best, Charleston Revisited, and the Botticelli Cruise). His play, Paul, is an examination of the life of the Apostle. Heathcliff is his first absurdist comedy [R18]. Gallo's plays have been staged nearly 100 times in 40 venues including in Washington, DC: The Kennedy Center [Additional Reference (AR) Y], The National Press Club [R15, R16], Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Cosmos Theatre [R3], The Universalist Stage, The Warehouse Theater, The Corner Store Stage, and the Capital Fringe Festival; in New York City: New York University, New York International Midtown Festival/Dorothy Strelsin Stage, The Dramatists Guild of America [R5], Casa Italiana, Where Eagles Dare Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, and Midtown International Theatre Festival where one of his actresses won best supporting actress; in Maryland: The Greenbelt Arts Center [AR W], Silver Spring Stage/PF, and St. John's Church; as well as other venues in Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Three of his plays (Margherita, Eugenio, and Lincoln and God)are under contract to the Nederlander Producing Group for production in New York City. Margherita is scheduled to be jointly produced by Brown-Nederlander and the Seventh Street Playhouse in 2012.