Joe DiPietro
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Joe DiPietro is an American playwright
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...

 and author
Author
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.

Born in Teaneck, New Jersey
Teaneck, New Jersey
Teaneck is a township in Bergen County, New Jersey, and a suburb in the New York metropolitan area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 39,776, making it the second-most populous among the 70 municipalities in Bergen County....

, DiPietro grew up in nearby Oradell
Oradell, New Jersey
Oradell is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 7,978. The borough's territory includes a dam on the Hackensack River that forms the Oradell Reservoir...

. Son of the banker Lou, and Jean DiPietro. He attended Oradell Public School and River Dell Regional High School
River Dell Regional High School
River Dell High School is a four-year comprehensive regional public high school, part of the River Dell Regional School District, which is shared with the neighboring communities of Oradell and River Edge in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States...

. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa Society
The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic honor society. Its mission is to "celebrate and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences"; and induct "the most outstanding students of arts and sciences at America’s leading colleges and universities." Founded at The College of William and...

 from Rutgers University
Rutgers University
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 in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in English. Wrote the book and lyrics for the long running off-Broadway show I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts. It is the second-longest running Off Broadway musical...

.

Theatre

  • 2010 Nice Work If You Can Get It
    Nice Work If You Can Get It (musical)
    Nice Work If You Can Get It is an upcoming musical written by Joe DiPietro. It features a score by George and Ira Gershwin. After several workshops and delays, Nice Work will premiere on Broadway in Spring 2012.-Background:...

    (Broadway) (book) which is a version of "They All Laughed"
  • 2008 The Toxic Avenger book and lyrics with music by David Bryan of Bon Jovi, based on the movie
  • 2008 Fucking Men
    Fucking Men
    Fucking Men is a play by Joe DiPietro. It premiered at the King's Head Theatre in the London Borough of Islington, directed by Phil Willmott. It opened on 9 January 2009 and was extended three times due to strong sales, and later ran in repertory with Naked Boys Singing...

    , an adaptation of Schnitzler's
    Arthur Schnitzler
    Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...

     La Ronde
    La Ronde (play)
    La Ronde is a 1900 play by Arthur Schnitzler. It scrutinizes the sexual morals and class ideology of its day through a series of encounters between pairs of characters . By choosing characters across all levels of society, the play offers social commentary on how sexual contact transgresses...

    (1897)
  • 2005 All Shook Up
    All Shook Up (musical)
    All Shook Up is a jukebox musical with Elvis Presley music, with a book by Joe DiPietro. The story is based on William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.-Production history:...

    (Broadway) (book)
  • 2004 Allegro
    Allegro (musical)
    Allegro is a musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II , their third collaboration for the stage. Opening on Broadway on October 10, 1947, the musical centers on the life of Joseph Taylor, Jr.—Joe follows in the footsteps of his father as a doctor, but is tempted by fortune and fame at...

    (adaptation of -, writer)
  • 2003 Memphis
    Memphis (Musical)
    Memphis is a musical by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro . It is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s...

    (book and lyrics) with music by David Bryan of Bon Jovi
  • 2003 The Thing About Men
    The Thing About Men
    The Thing About Men is a musical with music by Jimmy Roberts and lyrics and book by Joe DiPietro. It is based on the 1985 German film Men by Doris Dörrie...

    (Off-Broadway) (book, lyrics) (musical version of the German comedy film by Doris Dörrie
    Doris Dörrie
    Doris Dörrie is a German film director, producer and author.-Life and work:Dörrie completed her secondary education at a humanist Gymnasium. In 1973 she began a two-year attendance in film studies, in the drama department of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She then studied...

    , Männer... (Men...), from 1985)music by Jimmy Roberts
    Jimmy Roberts (composer)
    Jimmy Roberts is a composer for the musical theater as well as a pianist and entertainer. His musical scores include: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and The Thing About Men , both with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro...

  • 2002 Babes in Arms
    Babes in Arms
    Babes in Arms is a 1937 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Lorenz Hart and book by Rodgers and Hart. It concerns a teen-age boy who puts on a show with his friends to avoid being sent to a work farm.- Production history:...

    (adaptation of -, writer)
  • 2001 They All Laughed (book) (a very loose adaptation of Oh, Kay!
    Oh, Kay!
    Oh, Kay! is a musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse. It is based on the play La Presidente by Maurice Hanniquin and Pierre Veber. The plot revolves around the adventures of the Duke of Durham and his sister, Lady Kay, English...

    )
  • 1999 Art Of Murder (author)
  • 1998 Kiss At City Hall (author)
  • 1996 I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
    I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
    I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro and music by Jimmy Roberts. It is the second-longest running Off Broadway musical...

    (Off-Broadway) (book and lyrics) with composer Jimmy Roberts
    Jimmy Roberts (composer)
    Jimmy Roberts is a composer for the musical theater as well as a pianist and entertainer. His musical scores include: I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and The Thing About Men , both with book and lyrics by Joe DiPietro...

  • 1994 Over The River And Through The Woods (Off-Broadway) (author )
  • 1994 The Virgin Weeps (author)
  • 1991 Love Lemmings (author, lyricist)

Awards and nominations

  • Tony Award 2010: Best Original Score Written for the Theatre - Memphis
    Memphis (Musical)
    Memphis is a musical by David Bryan and Joe DiPietro . It is loosely based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips, one of the first white DJs to play black music in the 1950s...

     (winner)
  • Tony Award 2010: Best Book of a Musical - Memphis (winner)
  • The Drama League 2010: Distinguished Production of a Musical (Book and Lyrics by Joe DiPietro) - Memphis (nominee)
  • Drama Desk Award 2010: Outstanding Book of a Musical - Memphis (nominee)
  • Outer Critics Circle 2010: Outstanding New Score - Memphis (winner)
  • 2000 Edgar Award
    Edgar Award
    The Edgar Allan Poe Awards , named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America...

    : Best Mystery Play - The Art of Murder
  • William Inge Theater Festival New Voices In American Theater Award
  • O'Neill National Playwright's Conference MacArthur Award for comic writing

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