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Coni

Ciongoli-Koepfinger

 

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Membership level
Board Member
First Name
Coni
Last name
Ciongoli-Koepfinger
 

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Biography
Coni Ciongoli-Koepfinger believes that creative energy is never lost… it just changes hands, hearts and minds. She holds an MA in Literary and Cultural Theory from Carnegie Mellon University and teaches composition and literature courses at Point Park and Duquesne University. Yearly, she also directs an original new work with students in her class for the spring production at Penn State University, Greater Allegheny Campus.

Her play Candledancing was recently published and is slated for a staged reading in Soho later this year. It was originally produced in 1999 with British composer, Robert Hugill. Following that collaboration, their operetta, Garrett got raves in Opera News in 2001 for its performance at Hoxton Hall, London. A Post-Gazette review of her play Sideshow compared her thematic style to Twilight Zone’s master, Rod Serling. As the director of the play reading series Sunday Night Live, she was one of the named one of “Ones to Watch” in Pittsburgh Magazine Excellence in the Arts Awards.

Although, Koepfinger resides in Pittsburgh, most of her avant-garde work follows her spirit, which has thrived in New York City for the last twenty years. Other productions include Coffeehouse Magik at Brooklyn’s Museum of Sound Recording, and Garrett, the Blue Giraffe at the Bay Area Festival in Sonoma. Her children’s plays, Jack and the Talkback Beanstalk and Rudolph’s Big Secret were named the most produced by its publisher Dramasource. Most recently, her piece The Guardian won acceptance into the 2009 Mother Daughter Monologues by the International Center for Women Playwrights.
Representative Play Titles
Coffehouse Majik; Sleeping with Destiny; Saints in Revolt; Garrett, the Blue Giraffe; The Red Room; The Shadow Dancer; All Good Dreamers;Candledancing: The Voice of Julian of Norwich
 

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