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GET TO KNOW A PLAYWRIGHT: <strong>John</strong> Belluso was a writer for the stage and television and<br />

was director of the Other Voices Project at the Mark Taper Forum <strong>The</strong>atre in Los Angeles. His critically<br />

acclaimed plays that focus on the disability experience are produced in regional theaters across the<br />

United States. His play Gretty Good Time won the VSA <strong>Playwright</strong> <strong>Discovery</strong> <strong>Award</strong> in 1998. He also<br />

wrote for the HBO television series Deadwood (2004). He died in 2006 at the age of 36. He was writing<br />

a play about an Iraqi war veteran with a disability called <strong>The</strong> Poor Itch for the Public <strong>The</strong>ater.<br />

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