Mario Baldessari

Mario Baldessari is the 2011–2012 playwright-in-residence at First Draft, an artistic associate with Charter Theater, and an acting instructor for the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, the Actors’ Center, Imagination Stage, and the Educational Theater Company. For many years, he was the lead writer and a founding member of the comedy troupe Dropping the Cow. His most recent plays include Fat Gay Jew at Charter Theater and Jack and the Bean-Stalk at 1st Stage.