Marc Acito
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Marc Acito
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January 11, 1966 Bayonne, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Playwright, novelist, and humorist |
| Education | Westfield High School |
| Alma mater | Colorado College |
| Spouse | Floyd Sklaver |
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Marc Acito (born January 11, 1966 in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an award winning American playwright, novelist, and humorist.
He is openly gay and lives in New York City with his husband Floyd Sklaver.
Acito is a 1984 graduate of Westfield High School in Westfield, New Jersey. He studied acting in the musical theater program at Carnegie Mellon but left before graduation. In 1990 he received a bachelor’s degree from Colorado College, which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2009.
Before becoming a playwright, Acito was a novelist and journalist. His comic novel How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater won the Oregon Book Awards’ 2005 Ken Kesey Award for Best Novel, and was voted a 2005 "Teens Top Ten for favorite young adult book" of the American Library Association. In April 2008, Acito published Attack of the Theater People, a sequel to How I Paid for College.
He is also the writer of the syndicated humor column "The Gospel According to Marc", which ran for four years in nineteen gay publications. His humorous essays have appeared in many publications including The New York Times (April 3, 2006) and Portland Monthly magazine (January 2007, February 2007); as well as on NPR's All Things Considered (June, 2008 through February 2010)
In 2012, Acito won the The Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play for Birds of a Feather, a comedy inspired by Roy and Silo, the same-sex male penguins in Central Park who raised a chick, and Pale Male and Lola, the red-tailed hawks that nested on the ledge of a Fifth Avenue cooperative.
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