Daria Miyeko Marinelli
Daria Miyeko Marinelli is a Japanese-Italian playwright who writes about outcasts and underdogs trying to rewrite the cultural mythology they have inherited while honoring the wildness of their hearts. Their plays include Ravenous, A Departure, Beautiful Blessed Child, and This is Not What I Expected When I Imagined a Republic.
Daria’s work has been performed at Victory Gardens, Ensemble Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse’s WOW Festival, The Flea, and HERE Arts Center, among others. Mx. Marinelli has developed work with SPACE on Ryder Farm, The Playwright’s Realm, NNPN’s MFA Playwrights Workshop and New Visions New Voices at The Kennedy Center, and The New Harmony Project. Accolades include being a Finalist for The O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, a Princess Grace and Bay Area Playwrights Semi-Finalist, and a showcased writer at the Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists. Daria graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magnum Cum Laude, and with Honors from Brown University and received their MFA in Playwriting as a Michener Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin.
While forever a New Yorker at heart, Daria is currently based in Los Angeles.
Website: http://www.DariaMiyekoMarinelli.com