Richard Alfieri
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Richard Alfieri is a multi-award winning playwright
, screenplay writer, novelist, producer and actor.
A graduate of Yale University
, Mr. Alfieri began his professional career in New York City, where he studied with Sanford Meisner
at the Neighborhood Playhouse
. His awards include two Writers Guild Awards and an Emmy nomination.
His play The Sisters, suggested by Chekhov
’s Three Sisters (play)
, premiered in Los Angeles. Mr. Alfieri adapted the play for feature film production, and it premiered as an Official Selection at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival
and the Hollywood Film Festival
. The Sisters subsequently won the Santa Fe Film Festival
’s Milagro Award for Best American Independent Film.
Mr. Alfieri is currently writing a screenplay based on Tom Alibrandi’s novel, Killshot.
Alfieri received a Writers Guild Award for the Hallmark Hall of Fame
film Harvest of Fire. He won the Grand Prize at the New York Film and Television Festival and a Writers Guild Award nomination for his screenplay for the film A Friendship in Vienna. He also received both a Writers Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for his work on Norman Lear
’s ABC special I Love Liberty. He wrote the feature film Echoes and the novel Ricardo - Diary of a Matinee Idol, which he adapted into the screenplay Moonlight Blonde. He produced the feature film Rescue Me and executive-produced the NBC film False Witness. He also wrote the film adaptation of Robert James Waller's novel Puerto Vallarta Squeeze.
As an actor, he starred on Broadway in Tennessee Williams
' Vieux Carre, and off-Broadway in Awake and Sing, and The Justice Box. His film credits include Children of Rage as well as episodes of Magnum PI, Trapper John MD and Stories from the Bible.
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, screenplay writer, novelist, producer and actor.
A graduate of Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
, Mr. Alfieri began his professional career in New York City, where he studied with Sanford Meisner
Sanford Meisner
Sanford Meisner , also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed a form of Method acting that is now known as the Meisner technique....
at the Neighborhood Playhouse
Neighborhood Playhouse
The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre is an actor training school at 340 East 54th Street in New York City, generally associated with the Meisner technique of Sanford Meisner.-History:...
. His awards include two Writers Guild Awards and an Emmy nomination.
Career
His play Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks opened on Broadway at the Belasco Theater. The play premiered in Los Angeles and has since been translated into 12 languages and opened in over 20 countries with productions in cities including Berlin, Sydney, Melbourne, Vienna, Madrid, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, Budapest, Helsinki, Prague, Istanbul, Hamburg, Munich, Athens, and London. Mr. Alfieri has adapted Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks for feature film production later this year.His play The Sisters, suggested by Chekhov
Chekhov
- People :* Alexander Chekhov, older brother of Anton Chekhov* Anton Chekhov , Russian writer** Chekhov Gymnasium, school, and now museum in Taganrog** Chekhov Library, public library in Taganrog** Anton Chekhov class motorship...
’s Three Sisters (play)
Three Sisters (play)
Three Sisters is a play by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, perhaps partially inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters, but most probably by the three Zimmermann sisters in Perm...
, premiered in Los Angeles. Mr. Alfieri adapted the play for feature film production, and it premiered as an Official Selection at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
and the Hollywood Film Festival
Hollywood Film Festival
The Hollywood Film Festival is an annual Film festival which is located in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Festival was established in 1997 by Carlos de Abreu and his wife, model Janice Pennington....
. The Sisters subsequently won the Santa Fe Film Festival
Santa Fe Film Festival
The Santa Fe Film Festival is a Non-Profit Organization which presents important world cinema in a non-commercial context that represents aesthetic, critical and entertainment standards highlighting New Mexican film, new American and foreign film including revivals, retrospectives, independent...
’s Milagro Award for Best American Independent Film.
Mr. Alfieri is currently writing a screenplay based on Tom Alibrandi’s novel, Killshot.
Alfieri received a Writers Guild Award for the Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The second longest-running television program in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2011...
film Harvest of Fire. He won the Grand Prize at the New York Film and Television Festival and a Writers Guild Award nomination for his screenplay for the film A Friendship in Vienna. He also received both a Writers Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for his work on Norman Lear
Norman Lear
Norman Milton Lear is an American television writer and producer who produced such 1970s sitcoms as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, One Day at a Time, The Jeffersons, Good Times and Maude...
’s ABC special I Love Liberty. He wrote the feature film Echoes and the novel Ricardo - Diary of a Matinee Idol, which he adapted into the screenplay Moonlight Blonde. He produced the feature film Rescue Me and executive-produced the NBC film False Witness. He also wrote the film adaptation of Robert James Waller's novel Puerto Vallarta Squeeze.
As an actor, he starred on Broadway in Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
' Vieux Carre, and off-Broadway in Awake and Sing, and The Justice Box. His film credits include Children of Rage as well as episodes of Magnum PI, Trapper John MD and Stories from the Bible.
Plays
- Six Dance Lessons In Six Weeks, 1st Produced: Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, USA, 2001, Samuel French, Inc, New York (2005) ISBN 9780573602795
- The Sisters, which premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse
- Starstruck
- Revolutions