Stephen DiLauro
Stephen DiLauro aka Uke Jackson (a nom de plume he assumed in 2000) is an American playwright, novelist, newspaper reporter, art writer, and ukulele player.
Career
[edit]DiLauro has written for American Artist,[1] the Village Sun,[2][3] The Fortune Society,[4] and Cigar Aficionado.[5] DiLauro was at one time the chief art critic for the Manhattan periodical Downtown.[6]
As a ukulele player and afficinado, DiLauro (aka Uke Jackson) is best known for founding and leading the New York Ukulele Ensemble and for "Ukefest", at its height attended by thousands.[7]
On March 10, 1992 a televised adaptation of DiLauro's one-act play Avenue Z Afternoon, about a Puerto Rican burglar who breaks into a Jewish matron's Brooklyn apartment, appeared on General Motors Playwrights Theater on the A&E Network; it starred Anne Meara and Lou Diamond Phillips.[8][9] Carole Kucharwicz in Variety said: it was "All in all a productive afternoon".[10]
In 2008 DiLauro combined his love for ukeleles with his role as a playwright, creating the book for the musical Sex Drugs and Ukeleles staged at the Theater for the New City in the East Village, Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.[11][12] DiLauro's play Monster Time was listed as one of the top ten dramatic works of the year in The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989-1990 Featuring the Ten Best Plays of the Season. New York magazine described it as a "Prison drama heightened by the setting being death row".[13][14]
DiLauro is the co-author of Perillo Artist of the American West (Alpine Fine Arts Collection 1981).[15] He is also the co-author, with Roy Moyer (ed.) and Gilbert Lascault, of the 1986 monograph Doğançay, focusing on the Turkish American artist Burhan Doğançay.[16]
DiLauro's 1996 CD audio collection River Tales was covered in Newsweek, as well as other news outlets.[17][18]
Personal life
[edit]He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ferrin DiLauro and grew up in Clinton Township, New Jersey. His father was a United Airlines pilot and real estate investor.
DiLauro was formerly married to the actress Suzanne Jackson, who played Dolly on the daytime television soap opera One Life to Live. This marriage and his previous one both ended in divorce.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Alex Katz - Bibliography - Articles & Reviews". www.alexkatz.com.
- ^ "Stephen DiLauro Archives".
- ^ "'Hamlet/Horatio' gives Shakespeare's longest play a new twist, at a reasonable length". July 15, 2021.
- ^ "A playwright remembers Khalil Islam". The Fortune Society.
- ^ "Cover Art". Cigar Aficionado.
- ^ a b "Sara Jackson, an Actress, Weds Stephen DiLauro". The New York Times.
- ^ "Spare Times". The New York Times.
- ^ Daytona Beach Sunday News-Journal.
- ^ The Item.
- ^ Variety TV REV 1991-92 17. Taylor & Francis. March 1994. ISBN 978-0-8240-3796-3.
- ^ "Sex! Drugs! & Ukuleles! - Theater - Review - The New York Times". The New York Times.
- ^ Spokane Chronicle.
- ^ The Best Plays of 1989-1990: The Complete Broadway and Off-Broadway Sourcebook. Hal Leonard Corporation. December 1990. ISBN 978-1-55783-091-3.
- ^ New York Magazine. 20 November 1989.
- ^ "Results for: Author: Stephen DiLauro".
- ^ "BIBLIO | Dogancay by Gilbert Lascault; Roy Moyer; Stephen DiLauro | Hardcover | 1986 | Hudson Hills Press LLC | 9780933920613".
- ^ "Tell Me a Story". Newsweek. 15 December 1996.
- ^ "Let It Flow Music, Art and Environment Will Run Together in First Bethlehem River Festival". 20 June 1997.