Gina Gionfriddo is an American playwright and television writer. Her play Becky Shaw was a 2009 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and her play Rapture, Blister, Burn was a 2013 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She has written for the television series Law & Order.
Gionfriddo grew up in Washington, D.C. where she attended Georgetown Day School.She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University and completed Brown University's M.F.A.(1997) playwriting program where she studied with playwright Paula Vogel. In addition to writing her own material, she has also taught playwriting at Brown University, Providence College, and Rhode Island College.
She has written for both the stage and for television. She tends to write dark comedies of topics that occasionally touch on the abuse of women and often features male protagonists. U.S. Drag features a series of assaults, After Ashley features rape and murder, Becky Shaw on a gunpoint robbery.
For her writing she has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2002 for U.S.Drag , the 2002 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, and a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship. Her play After Ashley received the 2005 Obie Award, Performance for Kieran Culkin.
