Baker Artist Portfolios

Produced on 4 continents, Rosemary FrisinoToohey has had more than 360 productions of her plays around the world. Making people laugh is a big deal ---10 of her comedies are now published--- although she enjoys writing serious stuff as well and has penned award-winning plays on death, the Holocaust and school shootings, as well as a close look at the life of a garbageman. Writing in an anthropomorphic vein has become a real niche. She's given angst and human preoccupations to cockroaches, starlings, socks (left behind in a dryer), fruit (facing decay in a fruit bowl), and lobsters (about to be cooked in a restaurant.) She’s won the Baltimore Playwrights Festival three times, was Audience Favorite in the British Theatre Challenge in London, and her one-act on racism premiered in the Columbus Black Theatre Festival in Ohio. She's also made her peace with rejection because, frankly, it's a given in the business of creation. Her work is in university libraries from Harvard to the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and one of her screenplays is in the Artemis Arts Wisdom Anthology. A member of both the Dramatists Guild of America and SAG/AFTRA, there's more at www.frisinotoohey.com