Cary Gitter

Bio

Cary Gitter’s plays include The Virtuous Life of Joseph Andrews (Penguin Rep Theatre, Stony Point, NY) and The Sabbath Girl (off-Broadway, 59E59 Theaters; Penguin Rep Theatre; Theatre Ariel, Philadelphia; Invisible Theatre, Tucson), which is published and licensed by Stage Rights. His play How My Grandparents Fell in Love was a New York Times Critic’s Pick as part of the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s 36th Marathon of One-Act Plays and aired on the acclaimed podcast Playing on Air. His work has been developed at the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, New Jersey Repertory Company, and Seven Angels Theatre, among others. He has received commissions from the EST/Sloan Project and Penguin Rep. He is a two-time O’Neill semifinalist and Jewish Plays Project finalist, and an alumnus of the Obie Award-winning EST/Youngblood playwrights’ group. His work has been published in anthologies from Smith & Kraus and Applause Books. BFA, MA: NYU. carygitter.com