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Joe Pintauro (November 22, 1930 – May 29, 2018) was an American academic, novelist, playwright and poet.
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Joe Pintauro (November 22, 1930 – May 29, 2018) was an American academic, novelist, playwright and poet.
Early life and education
Joe Pintauro was born on November 22, 1930, inQueens
Queens is the largest by area of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located near the western end of Long Island, it is bordered by the ...
, New York. His father, Aniello Pintauro, was a cabinetmaker, and his mother was Carmela (Iovino) Pintauro. He had two older siblings, a brother named Anthony (Tony) who was three years older and a sister named Mildred who was fifteen years older.
He grew up in the Ozone Park
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neighborhood of Queens.
Pintauro attended John Adams High School in Queens, and he studied at Manhattan College
Manhattan University (previously Manhattan College) is a private, Catholic university in New York City. Originally established in 1853 by the De La Salle Christian Brothers (Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools) as an academy fo ...
, before transferring to St. Jerome's College
St. Jerome's University (commonly shortened to St. Jerome's or SJU) is a public Roman Catholic university in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It is federated with the University of Waterloo. St. Jerome's, within the University of Waterloo, combines ac ...
in Waterloo, Ontario
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, where he graduated in 1953 with a degree in philosophy and Latin. After attending Our Lady of Angels Seminary at Niagara University
Niagara University (NU) is a private Catholic university in the Vincentian tradition in the census-designated place Niagara University, New York, in the town of Lewiston near Niagara Falls. It is run by the Congregation of the Mission and ...
, he was ordained a priest in 1958. While working as a priest Pintauro attended Fordham University
Fordham University is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in New York City, United States. Established in 1841, it is named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its origina ...
to work on a master's degree in American Literature.
In 1966 Pintauro left the priesthood, finding work as a copy writer and a poet.
Career
Pintauro's first published work was ''To Believe in God'', the first of three books of poetry with artwork byCorita Kent
Corita Kent (November 20, 1918 – September 18, 1986), born Frances Elizabeth Kent and also known as Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American artist, designer and educator, and former religious sister. Key themes in her work included Christian ...
, released in 1968. His first novel, ''Cold Hands'', was published in 1979.
Pintauro become known as a playwright whose works often covered the AIDS crisis
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. His first play, ''Snow Orchid'', was staged in 1982 by New York City's Circle Repertory Company
The Circle Repertory Company, originally named the Circle Theater Company, was a theatre company in New York City that ran from 1969 to 1996. It was founded on July 14, 1969, in Manhattan, in a second floor loft at Broadway and 83rd Street by di ...
Other plays by Pintauro include ''Beside Herself'' (1989), ''The Dead Boy'' (1990), ''Raft of the Medusa'' (1991), and ''Men's Lives'' (1992).
In 1995, Pintauro wrote the short play ''Dawn'' as part of a production, commissioned by the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor is an Administrative divisions of New York#Village, incorporated village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, in the Administrative divisions of New York#Town, towns of Southampton, New York, Southampton and East Hampton (town) ...
, of three short beach plays featuring work by playwrights Lanford Wilson
Lanford Wilson (April 13, 1937March 24, 2011) was an American playwright. His work, as described by ''The New York Times'', was "earthy, realist, greatly admired ndwidely performed". Fox, Margalit"Lanford Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwrigh ...
and Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally (November 3, 1938 – March 24, 2020) was an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter. Described as "the bard of American theater" and "one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater world has yet produced," M ...
entitled ''By the Sea, By the Sea, by the Beautiful Sea''.
Pintauro taught playwriting at Southampton College
Southampton College, formerly known as Southampton City College, is a general further education college located in Southampton, Hampshire, England. There has been a school of some kind on the site since the 1930s, but the current institution o ...
, he taught fiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational ...
and at New York University Tisch School of the Arts
The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic, and media arts school of New York University.
Founded on August 17, 1965, as the School of the Arts at New York University, Tisch ...
, and he taught filmmaking at Marymount Manhattan College
Marymount Manhattan College is a private college on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. As of 2020, enrollment consisted of 1,571 undergraduate students with women making up 80.1% and men 19.9% of student enrollment.
Columbia University
Masters ...
and at the School of Visual Arts
The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design.
History
This school was started by Silas ...
.
Theater awards include: Eugene O’Neill, National Playwrights Conference, ''Snow Orchid'' (1980); Eugene O’Neill, National Playwrights Conference, ''The Dead Boy'' (1998); The John Steinbeck Literary Award (2005); and Guild Hall of East Hampton, Lifetime Achievement Award in the Literary Arts (2006)
In 2018, Pintauro bequeathed his literary archives to the John Jermain Memorial Library.
Publications
Drama
* ''Cacciatore'', Actors Repertory Theatre, Inc. in New York, NY, in 1977. *''Snow Orchid'', produced by the Circle Repertory Company in New York, NY, in 1982. * ''Metropolitan Operas: 27 Short Plays'', commissioned by Circle Repertory Theater in New York, NY, in 1985. * ''Beside Herself'', produced by the Circle Repertory Company in New York, NY, in 1989. * ''The Dead Boy'', Royal Court, London, in 1991. * ''Raft of the Medusa'', produced by the Minetta Lane Theater in New York, NY, in 1991. * ''Men’s Lives'', Bay Street Theater (inaugural production), Sag Harbor, NY, in 1992. * "Dawn", ''By the Sea, By the Sea, By the Beautiful Sea'', produced by the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor, NY, in 1995. * ''What I Did For Love'', produced at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY, in 2002. * ''Cathedral'', produced by the Manhattan Theater Source in New York, NY, in 2009.Poetry
* ''To Believe in God'', Harper and Row (New York, NY), 1968 * ''To Believe in Man'', Harper and Row (New York, NY), 1970 * ''To Believe in Things'', Harper and Row (New York, NY) 1971 * ''Seasonal Quartet: Rainbow Box'', four books in a cube, art by Norman LaLiberte, Harper & Row 1970 * ''One Circus, Three Rings, Forever and Ever, Hooray!'', Harper and Row (New York, NY), 1969. * ''Kites at Empty Airports'', Harper and Row (New York, NY), 1972. * ''The Earth Mass'', Harper and Row (New York, NY), 1973.Novels
* ''Cold Hands'', Simon and Schuster (New York, NY), 1979. * ''State of Grace'', Times Books (New York, NY), 1983. * ''The River of Heaven.'' Unpublished (Sag Harbor, NY), 2018.Personal life
Pintauro and his partner of 40 years, Greg Therriault, married in 2013. Pintauro died inSag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor is an Administrative divisions of New York#Village, incorporated village in Suffolk County, New York, United States, in the Administrative divisions of New York#Town, towns of Southampton, New York, Southampton and East Hampton (town) ...
, on May 29, 2018, at the age of 87, of complications from metastatic prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the neoplasm, uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system below the bladder. Abnormal growth of the prostate tissue is usually detected through Screening (medicine), screening tests, ...
.
References
External links
Personal website
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pintauro, Joseph 1930 births 2018 deaths 20th-century American academics 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American poets 20th-century American Roman Catholic priests 21st-century American academics 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American poets 21st-century American Roman Catholic priests American gay writers American LGBTQ academics American LGBTQ dramatists and playwrights American LGBTQ novelists American LGBTQ poets American male novelists American male poets Deaths from prostate cancer in New York (state) Fordham University alumni Gay dramatists and playwrights Gay novelists Gay poets John Adams High School (Queens) alumni LGBTQ Roman Catholic priests Manhattan College alumni Niagara University alumni Novelists from New York City People from Ozone Park, Queens People from Sag Harbor, New York Poets from New York City Sarah Lawrence College faculty School of Visual Arts faculty Southampton College Stony Brook University faculty Tisch School of the Arts faculty University of Waterloo alumni Writers from Queens, New York