Santino DeAngelo
Santino DeAngelo is a New York based playwright, composer+lyricist, and commercial producer of musical theater, plays, orchestra, ballet, and film. Described by the New York Times as having a “gift for engaging melodies”, Santino’s full length plays and musicals include Foolerie (winner of NYMF 2015 Next Link Project), Slow to Burn, and A Haunting. Santino is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Rod Serling Award for Best Screenwriting (2007), NMI’s 2014 New Voices Project (Walt Disney Imagineering), and was a 2011 Harpur Fellow. Santino is the vocal arranger for Swing A Song of Sondheim, a jazz-fusion album featuring Norm Lewis and Rachel York, and his acclaimed chamber work, Narcissus: An Ancient Roman Pantomime, was recorded for Television on PBS/WSKG in 2016. Most recently, Santino assisted John Weidman on his and Stephen Sondheim's revival of Pacific Overtures off-broadway. Santino is the Executive Producer of The Foolish Company in New York and a 2018 MFA Playwriting candidate at Columbia University.
Recent Production: The Out-Post Ers
As a group of friends approach adulthood, three love stories unfold in a small apartment in Washington Heights.
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This past December Playwriting alumnus Santino DeAngelo ’18, who according to the New York Times has a “gift for engaging melodies,” co-wrote and directed Porn Awards: The Musical at The Rockwell in Los Angeles. The production is a wacky vaudeville act and comedy burlesque about a small-time musical theater producer, Max, who tries to bring his dream of hosting a sexy award show to the big time. Along the way, Max introduces the audience to his famous Hollywood friends such as Susan Sarandon, Liza Minelli, Jennifer Coolidge, and more (all played by award-winning celebrity impressionist Carly Sakolove).