Amy Dellagiarino
Playwright + Screenwriter
Los Angeles, California
Amy Dellagiarino is a playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced across the country. Her play "The Value of Moscow" was nominated for a 2019 Stage Raw Award for Best Playwriting and was published through Stage Rights. Her comedy feature film "Freelancers Anonymous" won the 2018 NCGLFF Audience Award for Best Women’s Feature, was a recipient of the Frameline Completion Fund Award, and earned the Reframe Stamp for gender balanced media along with such films as "The Favourite", "Can You Ever Forgive Me", and "Crazy Rich Asians". Her short plays have garnered the Best Comedy award in various festivals. She has participated in developmental readings of several of her plays with noted LA theatre companies such as Sacred Fools, Theatre of Note, Rogue Machine, and The Blank Theatre Company, and was a 2020 participant of Moving Arts Theatre's MADLab Play Development Series. Her play “From the Perspective of a Canoe” was a semifinalist for the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and a Finalist for the 2021 Austin Film Festival. She was a participant of the 2021 Kennedy Center Summer Playwrights Intensive as well as the resident playwright with Dark Horse Theatre Company in Virginia and a founding member of Walking Shadow Readers Theatre which focuses on new playwrights and new play development. She earned her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.