Albert innaurato biography

American journalist

Albert Francis Innaurato Jr. (June 2, 1947 – September 24, 2017) was an American playwright, theatre director, and writer.^[1]

Early career

Innaurato was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1947.

After graduating from the prestigious Central High School Class 224, Temple University and California Institute of the Arts, Innaurato attended the Yale School of Drama. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975,^[2] a Rockefeller Grant^{[citation needed]} and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1986 and 1989.^{[citation needed]}

Innaurato collaborated with Christopher Durang on The Idiots Karamazov, I Don't Normally Like Poetry but Have You Read "Trees"?, and Gyp, the Real-Life Story of Mitzi Gaynor while both were students at Yale School of Drama.

They performed in all three plays, often as women dressed as priests. At Yale, they frequently appeared in plays with classmates Mer