John Monteleone adapted Nikolai Gogol's short story classic, Diary of a Madman, for the stage. He performed the piece on Theater Row in NYC and other locations receiving Critical Acclaim for his adaptation and solo performance in the New York Times, Newsday and other papers.
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SOLO PERFORMANCE PIECE
Original written and performed by John Monteleone
Perfectly Norm-iLL People is a 2 hour Solo Performance piece but could be done by multiple actors it is a satirical gallery of norm-iLL characters, victimizers and their victims, who meet the audience in New York City’s Washington Square Park. Download the script:
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John Monteleone's first leading role in an Off-Broadway play right out of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Program in NYC. John played the Butler and the actor playing the butler in a play about a Butler - the butler or most of the cast of characters, whose last name was Butler. The play ran at the Players Theater on MacDougal Street in NY's Greenwich Village.
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John Monteleone performing the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story", with Lane Luckert, a great actor and comic, at Arena Players Repertory Theater, LI, NY. We received great reviews in the NY times.
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John Monteleone performed the lead role of Yank Smith, in Eugene O'Neil's The Hairy Ape. John won the Eastern Division in the American College Theater Festival for this performance. He was 19. Directed by the late Ned Bobkoff, a great director, thinker, teacher and 1960's Greenwich Village Scene talent who also taught at Dowling. Great writing, and experience for a young actor. Thanks Ned.
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John Monteleone and Andrea Grover in Terrance McNally's "Frankie and Johnny in the Claire DeLune" at the Rene Fatue Gallery in East Hampton, NY. with Andrea Cartagena, Directed by Maria Pessino, this play received critical praise in all the papers, The Independent, The Southampton Press, and the East Hampton Star, and received standing ovations every night. Great experience. Great people to work with.
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John Monteleone performing the role of Moreno, a psychopath chauffeur in Design for Murder - at Arena Players Repertory Theater, NY.
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John Monteleone performed the leading role of Mayer Shindel, in The General and the Jew at Arena Players Repertory Theater, LI, NY.
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John Monteleone performing the leading role in December in New York, a romantic comedy - at Arena Players Repertory Theater, NY.
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John Monteleone in Heat, at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. This was the final production of my graduating year and I had the privileged of performing the leading role with a cast of extraordinary actors, and human beings, many of which I trained with for 3 years in their intensive training program. Kestutis Nakis, Larry Meyers, and others. 1979.
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"Him and His Last Night of Sanity" by Gary Kott, Producer and Writer of The Cosby Show, was held as a staged Reading at the Grove Street Playhouse, Greenwich Village, NY. Gary Directed John Monteleone in his complex and beautifully written piece that explores the existential experiences of self, and relationship among a great many other provocative ideas. John Monteleone Produced the reading. What a great experience. Thank you Gary.
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He and She, a long one act play by John Monteleone, explores the struggle for individuality while maintaining a relationship. The characters evolve through specific physicalizations revealing deeply emotional and psychological transitions of self and their relationship. Produced in NYC and at Dowling College, NY.
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"Homesick", a long one act play by John Monteleone, explores the search for individuality amidst a family who embraces the social masks and unquestioned morality that validates their imprisonment, while systematically destroying them. Homesick was paired with John's play THE BOX, and produced by him at The William Redfield Theater in NYC. Directed by Keith T. Fadelici.. Great direction and the professional actors were amazing. Thank you all.
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"The Box" a long one act play by John Monteleone, exposing the demands of the business world transforming innocence into corruption, was paired with John's play "Homesick" and produced by him at the William Redfield Theater, in NYC with Equity Actors. Directed by Keith T. Fadelici, one of John's students, this was a great evening of provocative theater. The direction and performances were amazing, and I thank everyone involved for working on these plays.
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John Monteleone's long One-Act Play exploring MetaTheater, produced and directed it at Dowling College, NY. Charade explores the writer's process through an innovative text - the director/writer creates the play and as he does the characters come to life. But who is writing the play - him, or the characters or both. Or something else? Download the script at:
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"Tomorrow" a one act play by John Monteleone, produced and directed by him at Dowling College with student actors. This “Jack and Jill” couple seeking the idyllic life, regret the moments they share together as they live them, and age before our eyes until their last breath.
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Farmland a full length play, written, produced and directed by John Monteleone at the Dowling College Performing Arts Center, LI, NY. The cast had some notables years later - Kevin James as the Sheriff, Gary Valentine as the leading role of Sammy, Dan Sturges as Freddy, and Greg Vaccariello as Howard, the sleezy banker. Great performances and articles about it in Newsday and the New York Times.
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"Snapshot" a long one act play by John Monteleone. This was also produced and directed by him, at Dowling College Performing Arts Center, LI, NY, with adult actors who studied with him for many years. The play is about the ethereal connections between us all, and explores family themes through a series of fast, unifying snapshots. The play was written based on the last years of John's parent's lives.
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Deathtrap, produced and directed by John Monteleone with Greg Bodkin, Susan Walmsly, Ray Gobes, and others.
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One of Samuel Beckett's classic existential plays, produced and directed by John Monteleone with a professional actor, Rick Miller, at the Dowling College Performing Arts Center, LI, NY.
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Action by Sam Shepard, directed and produced by John Monteleone at Dowling College, LI, NY with student actors.
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John Monteleone produced and directed this wonderful production of Spoon River Anthology at Dowling College, LI, NY with student actors.
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Veteran's Day, a solo performance piece by Rick Miller, performed by him, produced and directed by John Monteloene as a professional repertory production at John's theater in residence at Dowling College, LI. NY. Rick was wonderful in this auto-biographical but creative piece about his experiences and observations from being IN the Vietnam War! Eye-opening - and moving. Thank you Rick for the opportunity to have worked with your talent.
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John Monteleone produced and directed Edward Albee's "The Zoo Story" with two of his professional acting students at the Dowling College Performing Arts Center, LI, NY. Rick Miller and Tom Mccreesh, two very talented actors and artists. Thank you both for a great performance and experience directing you.
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"More from Story Theater", by Paul Sills, produced and directed by John Monteleone at Dowling College with student actors. This wonderful play by Paul Sills was selected because I had the great privilege to study with Paul Sills for 2 years at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Program. I did a play titled "Monkey" with him there, and learned a great deal about the open, improvisational, and exploitative possibilities his concepts allowed - which was also great fun. In this play was a young student - Nick Levis, who became a successful film and TV director in New York City.
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"The Menechus Twins" by Plautus, an ancient but wonderful comedy that John Monteleone Produced and Directed with students at Dowling College, LI, NY. Great fun.
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John Monteleone with a few of the many casts he worked with - from students, to professionals!
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