"Best Play" in the 2025-2026 Playwrights First Competition
Finalist in the 2020-2021 Woodward-Newman Drama Award
Joseph Vitale
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Joseph Vitale was the winner of the 2025-2026 Playwrights First national competition, a finalist for the 2020-2021 Woodward-Newman Drama Award, and a semi-finalist for the 2012 Eugene O'Neill Theater/National Playwrights Conference. He is the author of a number of plays, including Murrow, which was performed Off-Off Broadway in 2016. His most recent play, The Interpreter, ran in August 2024 at The Theater Project in Summit, NJ.
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UPCOMING PLAYS
Two invisible women on the night shift stumble onto a secret that could change everything for them. A torn-up love note in an executive’s office becomes an opportunity: salvation for one, damnation for the other. Set against the glittering indifference of Wall Street,The Cleaners asks: what’s the price of a better life—and who pays it?
Join us on Saturday, April 18th for a reading of my latest one-act play, The Cleaners at the Cranford Community Center, Cranford, NJ. Part of The Theater Project's Saturday Reading Series.
2 p.m.
The event is free.
224 Walnut Avenue
Cranford, NJ
Join us Saturday, April 18 at the Cranford Community Center, Cranford, NJ.
The event is free. For more information, click below.