Franco D'Alessandro

Who is Franco D'Alessandro?

Franco D'Alessandro is a New York born playwright.

In the mid 1990s he had eight one-act plays produced Off-Off Broadway in five years.

Fresh from a sold-out run of The Sweet Life at Soho Rep/Walker Space in June 2001, Time to Storm in association with HERE and Michael Kagdis' CuriousArts presented Franco D'Alessandro's Worlds collide... at the bottom of a glass in December 2001 which celebrated sold-out run -three short plays by the award winning playwright. This innovative evening of fresh theater featured live musical performances by Josh Joplin, a sort of Orpheus, who served as a guide through the three plays.

Is That You or Is That Me? is a futuristic story dealing with the triumph of love in the face of one-upmanship and rabid consumerism. And On...' is both a searing and poetic look at three generations coping with loss and love and how family influences our emotional mind-set. The evening culminates with Before and After, a double play, which has contemporaneous stories unfolding. It is alternately scathing political satire and drama, which examines life before and after the September 11th catastrophe.