Room), and "Charmin' Cleary" (Eastgate Reading Room). Falco's work also appears in the online journal Blackbird. Playwright As a playwright, Falco is the author of Home Delivery, which won the Hampden-Sydney Playwriting Award and was subsequently staged by the Hampden-Sydney Theater Department. Earlier versions of the play were given staged readings in Mill Mountain Theater's Centerpiece and Theater B reading series. Two plays, Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha and Radon, premiered in university productions at Virginia Tech. Both were directed by David Johnson. In the summer of 2001, Falco worked with artists and actors from the United States, England, Greece, Bosnia, and Germany in an international theatre project meant to explore the healing power of drama. Scenes from The Cretans, a play developed during the project, were presented for a small audience in an amphitheatre on the Aegean in the village of Kolympari, Crete. His most recent plays are The Miscreant and Possum Dreams; the latter received its world premiere at Akron, Ohio's None Too Fragile Theatre's June 13–28, 2014 Miscellaneous Falco lives in Blacksburg, Virginia, where he teaches writing and literature in Virginia Tech's MFA program and edits The New River, an online journal of digital writing. He is the uncle of Edie Falco, an American actress known for her role of Carmela Soprano on the cable TV drama The Sopranos. Bibliography Concert in the Park of Culture (1985) Winter in Florida (1990) Plato at Scratch Daniel's & Other Stories (1990) Sea Island (1995) Acid (1996) A Dream with Demons (1997) Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories (2005) In the Park of Culture (2005) Wolf Point (2006) Saint John of the Five Boroughs (2009) Burning Man (2011) The Family Corleone (2012) Toughs (2014) Wolf Moon Blood Moon (2017) Transcendent Gardening (2022) References External links Edward Falco's homepage Living people 1948 births 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American writers of Italian descent Virginia Tech faculty State University of New York at New Paltz alumni American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers