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Richard Medugno
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Freelance Writer, Freelance
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Biography
I’ve had an eclectic and peripatetic professional life. (Now, that I’ve impressed you with my extensive vocabulary, I promise the rest of this bio will be slightly less pretentious.) After graduating from UC Irvine with a B.A. in Drama, I started my career working in the professional theatre at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego doing subscription sales and play development. This was followed by stints of office temp work in Boston; then shipping department supervising for the Ontario Medical Association in Toronto; and, for the past twenty years, content development on marketing communications teams for these Silicon Valley companies: 8x8, InnoMedia, McAfee, Trend Micro, Qualys, ZingBox, ServiceNow, and Fortinet. When I wasn’t working, I was parenting two children (now adults) in Fremont, CA and writing as a freelancer (scripts, newspaper and magazine features, theatre and book reviews, and blogs). I have had a memoir published (Deaf Daughter, Hearing Father – Gallaudet University Press 2005), and a biography (Deaf Politician - The Gary Malkowski Story - Amazon KDP), and a number of plays produced and published as well. Major Projects/Achievements: - "Dreams of a School Girl Crushed" - a feature-length screenplay, 2021 - "The Mulligan Marriage" - a feature-length screenplay, 2020 - "Deaf Politician: The Gary Malkowski Story" - a 70,000-word biography published in Fall 2020 - "Men Are Big Babies" - one of the Top 50 Short Film Scripts for the 2019 Cinequest Screenwriting Competition - "City Lights" - adapted Chaplin's silent film into a stage play for ASL-using actors -"Preying Hands" - drama inspired by actual events (unproduced) - "Gogol's St. Petersburg Stories" - two one-acts published by Playscripts.com, 2011 - "Acliffi's Affair - A Codependent Confesses" - unpublished novel, 2009 - "Silent Salzburg" - a full-length drama published by Author House, 2007 - "Deaf Child, Hearing Father" - a memoir published by Gallaudet University Press in September 2005 - Theatre Critic/Features Writer for the Tri-City Voice, 2002-2003 - Numerous freelance articles published in San Jose Mercury News, The Fremont Argus, Tri-City Voice and many other publications, 1997- 2010 - California School for the Deaf - Fremont - Promotional Video, 2003 - "The Nose" - one-act adaptation of Gogol’s short story, published by Contemporary Drama Service, 2004 - "Bigger Dreams" - a full-length drama, published 1st Books/AuthorHouse, 2003 Theatre Credits: - "Fine Fingers" sketch staged at Mockingbird Improv, July 2024 - "Pandas Confess" sketch staged at Mockingbird Improv, June 2024 - "Smelly Elevator" sketch staged at Mockingbird Improv, April 2024 - "Professional Hostage" sketch staged at Mockingbird Improv, Feb 2024 - "Giant Capybaras" sketch staged at Finest City Improv, December 2023 and Mockingbird Improv, January 2024 - "Confession" 10-minute play, read at Midwestern Dramatists conference, October 2023 - "Train Not Stop Sorry" produced by the ImaginASL Theatre Company, Boulder, Colorado March 2018 - "Silent Salzburg" produced by the Rocky Mountain Deaf Theatre, October 2015 - "The Captive Flowers" produced at City Lights Theatre, April 2012 - "A Cup of Joe, A Glass of Juice" produced by Arclight Rep, April 2011 - "The Misadventures of No Arms Norman" produced by City Lights April 2011 - "The Overcoat" produced by Arclight Rep, April 2010 - "Cyrano Truncated" produced by PianoFight, May-June 2009 - "A True Apology" produced by the Pear Avenue Theatre, April 2009 - "Old Pain" produced by City Lights Theatre and Guerrilla Orphans Theatre, April 2009 - "Silent Salzburg" produced by the Pensacola Opera Company, May 2008 - "The Near Death Experience" produced by the Pear Avenue Theatre, April 2008 - "Virtual L Sex" produced by Pear Avenue Theatre in April, 2007 - "Silent Salzburg" produced at the California School for the Deaf Little Theatre in September, 2006 Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardmedugno
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