Blood Type: RAGU

The Drama Book Shop presents, in association with Jay Michaels Global Communications, “Blood Type: RAGU” - A talkback, signing, and live podcast recording.

About the play

 BLOOD TYPE: RAGU (written and performed by Frank Ingrasciotta) is a hilarious yet tender coming-of-age story focusing on narrator and central character Frank, opening the play using food-as-metaphor in recounting his immigrant parents’ journey from Sicily to Brooklyn. This solo play explores a first-generation immigrant child’s delicate dance between searching for identity, embracing culture, and understanding forgiveness. Frank Ingrasciotta gives a tour-de-force portrayal of over 20 characters who live, love and laugh, in this fast-paced journey that is not just a comedy, not just a drama — It’s family — and we all have one! The show delighted audiences Off-Broadway at the Actors’ Playhouse in NYC receiving a glowing New York Times review. Since its Off-Broadway run Blood Type: RAGU has performed over 1,200 performances nationally and internationally in over 100 venues. The show was originally produced by the Belmont Playhouse, then Off-Broadway by Andrew Levine, and at the Sheas Performing Arts Center by Albert Nocciolino NEC Entertainment and is now with Bon Vivant Enterprises.

About the Author

 Frank is the writer/performer of the acclaimed off-Broadway solo play Blood Type: RAGU presently touring nationally and internationally (over 1,200 performances in over 100 venues). Other theatre credits include Godspell (Original Off-Broadway Production), Valley of the Dolls, Invasion of the Body Suckers (New York Theatre Workshop), What Would Nora Say? (John Drew Theatre, LI), Three Postcards, Snow White Goes West, Dinner at 8 (Heights Players, NYC), Edgar Degas in The Girl in the Blue Armchair (Westchester Conservatory), and the Pharaoh in Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Lincoln Center). Film: Principal roles in the award-winning SAG films Figs for Italo and Brooklyn in July, directed by Bob Celli, and available for viewing on Amazon Prime. TV: Five years as Rene Buchanan’s maître d’ on One Life to Live, other recurring roles on The Guiding Light, All My Children, ABC Afterschool Special, and The Equalizer. Frank has made appearances on ABC-TV Buffalo, Fox Morning News, Wingin' It Buffalo Style, Broadway Beat on BroadwayWorld, and Valerie Smaldone's Bagels and Broadway. Frank studied acting with William Esper and is a graduate of William Esper Studios. He holds a B.A. in Educational Theatre from SUNY Empire State. When not acting, Frank is a stage director and teaching artist.

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