Gina Gionfriddo

Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer. Her play Becky Shaw was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and her play Rapture, Blister, Burn was a 2013 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She has written for the television series Law & Order.

Gionfriddo grew up in Washington, D.C. where she attended Georgetown Day School. She graduated from Barnard College and completed Brown University's MFA (MFA 1997) playwriting program where she studied with playwright Paula Vogel.

In addition to writing her own material, she has also taught playwriting at Brown University, Providence College, and Rhode Island College.

She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island and currently resides in New York City, where she is a single mother.

She has written for both the stage and for television.

She was a writer for the television series Law & Order. René Balcer, the head writer and executive producer of Law & Order, hired her after he read her play After Ashley. Balcer said: “She really has an ear for the dialogue of everyday Americans and the quirkiness of everyday Americans... the kind of people you see being interviewed on Nancy Grace.”

For her writing she has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2002 for U.S.Drag (in a tie with Susan Miller), the 2002 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. Director Peter DuBois and Gionfriddo met at Brown University in the 1990s, and DuBois directed her thesis production (U.S. Drag) there. He has directed her plays Rapture, Blister, Burn and Becky Shaw.

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