Rosemary Frisino Toohey’s plays have had more than 460
productions across four continents and 45 states. She’s written
award-winning plays on the Italian internment, women in war, the Holocaust and
the life of a garbageman, as well as the music, book and lyrics of Judy
and the General, her musical based on the biblical characters of Judith and
Holofernes. Gold medal winner in the Italian American Theatre of Chicago’s
Playwriting Contest and audience favorite in the British Theatre Challenge in
London, her plays are also included in the collections of dozens of university
libraries from Harvard to the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. A
proud member of the Dramatists Guild, she also holds long-standing membership
in SAG/AFTRA.
