About the Play:

My Big Gay Italian Funeral is a full-length comedy by Anthony Wilkinson. After Anthony's father passes away, old family members are reunited after not having been on the best of terms for over a decade. A sequel to Anthony J. Wilkinson's My Big Gay Italian Wedding, and including some of the same characters.

My Big Gay Italian Funeral picks where the off-Broadway mega hit My Big Gay Italian Wedding leaves off, at the funeral of Anthony's father Joe Pinnunziato. Family drama and crazy characters unite when everything that can happen at an Italian wake certainly will. Anthony is reunited with his gay brother Peter Pinnunziato, who he hasn't spoken to in over a decade. This hilarious take on all of the fun characters that show up at a funeral home, is the second of the internationally-known, critically acclaimed Big Gay Italian Trilogy.

My Big Gay Italian Wedding premiered in 2013 in the theatre at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Manhattan's Theater District and ran for over two years Off-Broadway.

Cast: 7 women, 7 men

What people say:

"Fans of Wedding will of course recognize a few of our favorite characters but Funeral is a whole new show with an entirely different 'vibe.' Just as Wilkinson has grown and evolved over the years, so have his characters. Be assured, we definitely still get to enjoy Wilkinson's classic humor in Funeral (there are dancing drag queens and a psychic after all!!) but we also get to experience his more matured and sophisticated style. This production goes deeper and adds a level of heart that allows us to feel even closer to our favorite characters and our own emotions. This is a show more about family than anything else." — momsthoughts.com

"My Big Gay Italian Funeral will make you die laughing." — goldstar.com

About the Playwright:

Anthony J. Wilkinson is an American playwright, actor, director, and producer. Born and raised in New York, he is a graduate of NYU's College of Arts and Sciences for English and Creative Writing. He started his career as an Intern Writer at ABC Daytime's One Life To Live in 1996 and during his fourteen years there he worked his way up to the position of Associate Director. While in that position he earned three Daytime Emmy Awards and was a four-time recipient of the Directors Guild of America Award.