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Marc Acito (born January 11, 1966) is an American playwright, novelist, and humorist.
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| Born | January 11, 1966 Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Education | Carnegie Mellon University Colorado College (BA) |
| Spouse | Floyd Sklaver |
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Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Acito was raised in Westfield, New Jersey, and is a 1984 graduate of Westfield High School.[1] He studied in the BFA musical theatre program at Carnegie Mellon University but left before graduation.[2] In 1990 he received a bachelor's degree from Colorado College. In 2009, Colorado College awarded him an honorary doctorate.[3]
Acito began his career as a novelist and journalist. His comic novel How I Paid for College, won the Oregon Book Awards' 2005 Ken Kesey Award for Best Novel[4] and was voted a 2005 "Teens Top Ten for favorite young adult book" of the American Library Association.[5] In April 2008, Acito published Attack of the Theater People, as a sequel to How I Paid for College.
He is also the writer of the syndicated humor column "The Gospel According to Marc", which ran for four years in nineteen gay publications.[6] His humorous essays have appeared in many publications including The New York Times (April 3, 2006) and Portland Monthly magazine (January 2007, February 2007); as well as on NPR's All Things Considered (June 2008 through February 2010).
In 2012, Acito won the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play for Birds of a Feather, a comedy inspired by Roy and Silo, the same-sex male penguins in Central Park who raised a chick.[7][8]
Acito wrote the libretto for the musical Allegiance, which won the 2012 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding New Musical after a record breaking run at San Diego's Old Globe Theater.[9] ALLEGIANCE - A New Musical Inspired by a True Story opened on Broadway in November 2015 and starred George Takei and Lea Salonga.[10]
In 2012, Acito also turned his novel How I Paid for College into a "one-man monologue with songs" that premiered at the Hub Theater in Fairfax, Virginia.[11]
In 2014, his musical adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Room With a View was presented in Seattle at the 5th Avenue Theater.[12] In 2015, Acito wrote the concert adaptation of Lerner & Loewe's Paint Your Wagon for New York City Center's Encores! series.[13]
He is currently[when?] working on the libretto for a new musical commissioned by the 5th Avenue Theater. The musical, Dutch Master, was awarded a development grant by the National Alliance for Musical Theater.[14] Also in the works is Chasing Rainbows, a musical based on the early childhood of Judy Garland, which premiered in December 2015 at Flat Rock Playhouse in North Carolina.[15]
Acito lives in New York City with his husband Floyd Sklaver.[16][17]
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