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Albert Innaurato (born June 2, 1947) is an American playwright, theatre director, and writer. Innaurato was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947. After graduating from Temple University and California Institute of the Arts, Innaurato attended the Yale School of Drama. He was awarded the Guggenheim Grant, the Rockefeller Grant and two National Endowment for the Arts grants. Innaurato collaborated with Christopher Durang on ''The Idiots Karamazov'', ''I Don't Normally Like Poetry but Have You Read Trees'', and ''Gyp, the Real-Life Story of Mitzi Gaynor'' while both were students at Yale University's School of Drama. They performed in all three plays but especially in the last two named. Dressed as priests they played women in summer stock, they opened the Manhattan Theatre Club, almost costing the founder Lynn Meadow her new board. At Yale they frequently appeared in plays with their Drama School classmates Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver and their friend, the late Wendy Wasserstein. =="Gemini"== In 1976, he drew critical attention for the Playwrights Horizons staging of his play ''Gemini''. A year later, after some cast changes, the play was produced at PAF Playhouse on Long Island. That production subsequently was presented off-Broadway at the Circle Repertory Company, opening March 8, 1977, where it was acclaimed by the major New York critics. The Circle Rep production transferred to Broadway, where it ran for 1819 performances and earned him an Obie Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding New American Play. The screen adaptation, which Innaurato did not write, was released in 1980 under the title ''Happy Birthday, Gemini''. Showtime filmed the play as written with members of the original cast ''Gemini'' was controversial in its time for its frankness about and advocacy of tolerance for homosexuality. It also addresses the difficulties of the acculturation process, and the tensions caused by the different perspectives and values of second and third generation Americans as the hero, a Harvard student, attempts to navigate between American and Italian-American culture.〔Innaurato and Pintauro: Two Italian-American Playwrights, by Carol Bonomo Ahearn, MELUS, Vol. 16, No. 3, Ethnic Theater, (Autumn, 1989 - Autumn, 1990), pp. 113-125 ()〕 In 2006, Innaurato's hit play was turned into a musical, ''Gemini: The Musical'' and presented at the Prince Music Theater in Philadelphia, PA, starring Robert Picardo, Linda Hart, Anne DeSalvo, Barry James, Jillian Louis, Jeremiah Downes and Todd Buonopane. Innaurato has described this adventure as a 'bad mistake' (conversation with the author). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Albert Innaurato」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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