acknowledgements

The Italian and American Playwrights Project is a collaborative work that start in 2015

This project would have been impossible without the early involvement and support of key organizations and their staff:
- the Italian Cultural Institute of New York: Fabio Finotti, Director (2020 - ), Giorgio Van Straten, Director (2015-2019) Donatella Baldini, Paolo Barlera, Fabio Troisi, Massimo Sarti, Attaches for Cultural Affairs; Malina Mannarino, Barbara Dalfovo, Gisella Ingraffia, Paola Sergi.
- the Umanism team: Tommaso Spinelli, Marco Calvani, Co-Funders; Adriana Rossetto, Tiziana Marcuccio, Stefania Clegg Puxeddu.
- The Martin E. Segal Team led by Frank Hentschker, Director
- Graziano Graziano and the Media Partnership of Radio3
- The staff and students of the American University of Rome
- Marco Ciuti and Teatro Vascello of Roma
- the 369gradi team Alessia Esposito, Benedetta Boggio, Valeria Di Giuliano and Marina Dammacco

Italian and American Playwrights Project would like to express its enormous gratitude to the Italian and the American playwrights who consented to take part:

The Authors:
- Lucia Calamaro
- Mimosa Campironi
- Elisa Casseri
- Mariana Carreño King
- Mariano Dammacco
- Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini
- Gabriele Di Luca
- Will Eno
- Amy Herzog
- Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari
- Stefano Massini
- Tatjana Motta
- Giuliana Musso
- Fausto Paravidino
- Armando Pirozzi
- Michele Santeramo
- Fabrizio Sinisi
- Cori Thomas

Italian and American Playwrights Project like to thanks for the essential assistance provided by:

2015 essential assistance provided by Italy’s primary theatre-award organizations: Premio Hystrio (Claudia Cannella), Premio Riccione (Simone Bruscia), Premio Ubu (Cristina Ventrucci);
2017 American Advisory Board: Keith Josef Adkins (Artistic Director The New Black Fest), Marvin Carlson (Professor at CUNY Graduate Center Public Programs), Anne Cattaneo (dramaturg Lincoln Center Theater), Migdala Cruz (author), Mia Chung (author), Marco Calvani (author/director), Kate Loewald (Artistic Director The Play Company), Bonnie Marranca (Director PAJ Publications), Terry Nemeth (editor Theatre Communications Group)
2017 Italian Advisory Board: Simone Bruscia (Director Riccione Teatro), Roberto Canziani (Theatrical critic “Il Piccolo di Trieste” and Professor at Università degli Studi di Udine), Graziano Graziani (journalist), Stefano Massini (author), Debora Pietrobono (dramatic critic), Giulia Delli Santi (Director of Teatro Pubblico Pugliese)
2020 American Advisory Board: Akiba Abaka (Creative Producer, ArtsEmerson), Patrizia Acerra (Director, International Voices Project, Chicago), Soraya Broukhim, (Actress/Director, New York), Marvin Carlson, (Theater Historian, City University of New York), Anne Cattaneo (Dramaturg, Lincoln Center Theater), Thomas Haskell Simpson, (Translator, Northwestern University), Frank Hentschker (The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center), Andie Lerner (Director, Next Generation Fellow, Segal Theatre Center), Daniel Leisawitz (Italian Studies Program, Muhlenberg College), Kate Loewald/Charlene Adhiambo, (The Play Company, New York), Helen Shaw (theatre critic, New York Magazine / Vulture, New York), Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li, Al Mimite Theatre Collective / The Living Theater, New York
2020 Italian Advisory Board: Valeria Ciabattoni (Artistic Director of Circuito Teatrale della Sardegna - Ce.D.A.C), Franco D’Ippolito (Artistic Director of Teatro Metastasio - Prato / Teatro Stabile della Toscana), Maddalena Giovannelli (Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Milan. Theatre critic and Director of the theatre journal Stratagemmi), Giulia Guerra (Manager Director of Teatro Herberia / La Corte Ospitale - Theatre Residency and Production), Graziano Graziani (Theater Critic, Journalist and member of the jury at the Premio Riccione per il Teatro), Sergio Lo Gatto (Theater Critic, Journalist, Dramaturg. Executive for Cultural Activity on ERT - Emilia Romagna Teatro), Ermanna Montanari & Marco Martinelli (Artists - Teatro delle Albe), Laura Palmieri (Theater Critic, Journalist, Curator of “Il Teatro di Radio3 - RAI Italian National Radio Broadcast), Anna Ashton Parnanzini (Literary Agent Arcadia & Ricono), Isabella Ragonese (Actor)

Italian and American Playwrights Project would like to express its enormous gratitude to our Angels, Donors, and Supporters:

Special thanks goes to: Stefano Albertini, Anna Ashton Parnanzini, Monica Capuani, Giulia Casati, Elisabetta Castiglioni, Marco Ciuti, Allison Cornish, Veronica Gennari, La MaMa Theatre, Daniel Leisawitz - Mulhenberg College, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, Istituto Italiano di Cultura London, Andrea Pacor, Laura Palmieri, Manon Samoyeau, Rebecca Sheahan, Marino Sinibaldi, Teatro delle Albe, Tomaso Thellung de Courtelary, Stefano Vaccara, Mia Yoo, Liu Yu Chien,