WHAT I LEFT BEHIND Now Available From JAC Publishing and Promotions

What I Left Behind, the critically acclaimed short play by award-winning playwright Anthony J. Piccione, has recently been published by JAC Publishing and Promotions.

Scripts and production rights are now available at: http://jacneed.com/JAC/Shorts/Piccione_WILB.htm

What I Left Behind is a short drama which explores teen suicide, its impact, and the repercussions it has on those who remain. The play focuses on a young high school student suffering from severe depression brought on by bullying at the hands of classmates, who shocks everyone by taking their own life. In a unique retelling of the events leading up to the decision, we see what - and who - brought this young person to make this life-ending move...and how those who remain deal with it.

The play began its life as a staged reading in 2016 at Eastern Connecticut State University, before being produced at the New York Theatre Festival's annual NYWinterfest in 2018, where it was well-received by New York audiences.

The premiere of What I Left Behind was directed by Sarah Jane Schostack, and the cast featured Julie Wallace, Erin Amlicke, Emma Romeo, Gabriel Stephens, Dana Majeski, and Andres Gallardo Bustillo. What I Left Behind was reviewed favorably. Dorian Palumbo of Drama-Queens, had said, "Playwright Piccione does an absolutely masterful job in illustrating this story, ostensibly an issue play, in a way that doesn't make it feel like an issue play at all. He has rendered the story with the kind of wisdom and depth that indicates that he has a visceral and personal connection with the subject." The play was named NYWinterfest's Best Short Play of 2018.

Other Piccione plays published include Ebol-A-Rama, a short comedy which premiered at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2016 - was published last year by Heuer Publishing, and is now being produced by schools and community theaters across the U.S. His short comedy Two Cousins and a Pizza is also expected to be published later this year by Off The Wall Plays.

Piccione was also recently nominated for the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Award for Outstanding Playwright (Experimental or Dance Piece) for his most recent play 4 $tages. His next production, A Therapy Session with Myself, his first full-length play production, is a semi-autobiographical drama about living with social anxiety, depression, and Asperger's syndrome. It premieres January 2019 at the Hudson Guild Theatre.

Learn more at www.anthonyjpiccione.com.