BIOGRAPHY
Albert Innaurato
Albert Innaurato (The Idiots Karamazov) is an internationally known writer and cultural observer whose works for the theater include Gemini (performed for four years on Broadway, Obie Award), Passione (Playwrights Horizons and Broadway), The Transformation of Benno Blimpie (two Off-Broadway productions; performed in Italy, Spain, Israel, and London; Obie Award), Magda and Callas, Coming of Age in Soho (two versions at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, both directed by Mr. Innaurato), Gus and Al (Playwrights Horizons), and Dreading Thekla (Williamstown Theatre Festival). In addition to The Idiots Karamazov, he collaborated with Christopher Durang on I Don't Generally Like Poetry But Have You Read "Trees" and Gyp, the Real-Life Story of Mitzi Gaynor, while both were students at Yale University. Mr. Innaurato's film and television credits include short pieces for PBS, "Subway Stories," "Verna the USO Girl" (Emmy Award), two screenplays for Bette Midler, and rewriting the book and some of the lyrics of the Kurt Weill/Ira Gershwin/Moss Heart musical Lady in the Dark. He Adapted Puccini's opera La Rondine for Lincoln Center Theater and has contributed to the New York Times, Vogue, Vanity Fair, New York, Forbes, Newsday, Opera News, and the programs of Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. He taught at several universities and has lectured for the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Lincoln Center Chamber Society, and a number of other musical organizations.