Marc Acito

MARC ACITO is the author of the comic novels How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater (Editors' Choice - The New York Times ) and its sequel Attack of the Theater People .

Composer Stephen Schwartz said the latter caused "gasps of appalled recognition...the kind of book where you read passages to friends and they laugh too." How I Paid for College won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, was a Top Teen Pick by the American Library Association and is translated into five languages the author cannot read.

Having written two books about musicals, Marc is now writing the books of musicals. Together with with Jeffrey Stock, composer of the Broadway musical, Triumph of Love, Marc has adapted E.M. Forster's classic A Room with a View, which received its world premiere and garnered rave reviews at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in 2012.

Marc’s play Birds of a Feather, which tells the true story of the gay penguins in the Central Park Zoo, received the Helen Hayes Award for the Best New Play of 2012 for its world premiere at the Hub Theatre in Fairfax, Virginia.

With composer Amy Engelhardt of the "band without instruments" The Bobs, he's also created Bastard Jones, a rock musical adaptation of Henry Fielding's raucous The History of Tom Jones. Bastard Jones has been a finalist for the Richard Rodgers Award, the Eugene O’Neill Musical Theatre Conference and the Yale Music Theatre Workshop.

A recovering professional opera singer, Marc irregularly performs "singing commentaries" on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

A product of the Carnegie-Mellon musical theater program, Marc graduated from Colorado College, which in 2009 awarded him an honorary doctorate. Marc lives in New York City, where he teaches story structure to writers of all genres in NYU. He is a member of both the Dramatists Guild and Mensa, the International High IQ Society.

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