
Rosemary Parrillo
"Anything you create that transcends time is in some ways more real than the actual reality of your life," -- Joyce Carol Oates




Full-length Plays
One-Act Plays

More One-Act Plays
The Elephant Pit
The Balinese
Lou's 24/7
Ten-minute Plays




More 10-minute plays
The Kids' Table \ Circus Maxim \ Pay Day \ Our Man in China \ The Backstory \ Walking the Dog After Midnight
Screenplay

Biography
Rosemary Parrillo (she/her) is a New Jersey playwright and journalist whose work has been produced in festivals and community theaters in the U.S. and Canada. She has been a semifinalist for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference and a three-time finaist in the Tennessee Williams One-Act Contest. Her one-act plays "Grind City," “The Waiting Room,” and "Primary Care" have won first place awards in Iowa and New Jersey. The monologue "On the Road to Tikrit" was featured on the podcast Sell Yourself Short," by Curtain and Mic Productions, and performed at the 8 Tens @ 8 Festival at Actors Theatre in Santa Cruz, Ca. Her full-length, “Spaghetti Western,” had a staged reading at the Waterfront South Theatre in Camden, N.J. Parrillo is a member of the Dramatist Guild, the New Play Exchange, The New York Playwrights Group, The Philadelphia Dramatists Center, The Theater Project in Cranford, N.J. the International Centre for Women Playwrights and Honor Roll Playwrights.
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Reviews
The New Normal Trilogy perfectly captures how fear has radicalized and ramped up racism and changed the culture of our society. While things will never be the same, hopefully we'll remember the kind of community that is us at our best. Great work!
Cheryl Bear
NEW PLAY EXCHANGE
Shelter is chockablock with forceful and sometimes violent scenes as it unravels the tale of a vulnerable young woman driven to commit a desperate act ...
Parrillo writes strong stuff and deserves every encouragement.
Nels Nelson
THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
Parrillo shows an understanding of people on society's underside and of how they talk. She also demonstartes that she can write dialogue and present situations theatrically.
Douglas J. Keating
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER












