Dominic Orlando is a former Core Writer, two-time Jerome Fellow and McKnight Fellow of The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. Currently working on the screenplay for his Danny Casolaro Died for You, optioned by Caliber Media & Aviation Films. Other current commissions: adapting Don DeLillo’s Hammer & Sickle for ArtsEmerson in Boston; book & lyrics for The Barbary Coast, at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in California; and book & lyrics for The Minneapolis Working Boys Band, at The History Theatre in St Paul. He is a founding producer with The Workhaus Playwrights Collective, company-in-residence at The Playwrights’ Center, where he wrote and directed A Short Play About Globalization (2007), The Sense of What Should Be (2009), and A Short Play About 9/11 (2011). The Minneapolis Working Boys Band will have its premiere at The History Theatre in May.
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REVIEW: Plumbing the depths
Review“Explosion of talent” is the phrase I’d usually reserve for a production like 7th House Theater’s musical take on Jonah...
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REVIEW: Tipping the scales
ReviewIt’s appropriate that Walking Shadow is partnering with Mixed Blood to present Samuel Hunter’s The Whale—as these two theaters...read the story -
REVIEW: A bucket for a drum
ReviewWandering through the first half of Relics, the inventive, quasi-emersive piece created by Sarah Agnew, Nick Gofis and Chantal...read the story -
REVIEW: Drunk on language and love
ReviewI told myself I’d only have one glass of wine at dinner. It was Shakespeare after all. But in the...read the story -
REVIEW: Commonweal makes it all seem so easy
ReviewEditor's Note: Our Indiegogo campaign is finally over and, thanks to you, it was a rousing success. Look for the...read the story -
REVIEW: The whole crazy adventure
ReviewEditor's Note: Today is MinnesotaPlaylist's 6th birthday. If you'd like to get us a small birthday present, you can over...read the story -
Best of 2013-2014: Cabaret and Ashland
EditorialEditor's Note: For the last four years, we've honored the new theater season with a look back at what made...
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REVIEW: 'Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson' at The New Century Theatre
ReviewLate for the party again. And this time it was a big party indeed. I never imagined myself as the...read the story -
REVIEW: 'Drunken City" - Comedy, Tragedy, and Yeah, Life’s Tough But Whatevs
ReviewThe title of the popular film comedy Four Weddings and A Funeral nods to an old theatrical tradition. Ending a...read the story