DOUBLE HELIX by Vince Gatton

Vince Gatton is a New York-based playwright and Drama Desk-nominated actor, who received a Desert Star Award nomination for his performance in I AM MY OWN WIFE at CVRep. His plays have won Sanguine Theatre Company’s Project Playwright Festival, the Samuel French OOB Festival, and the LIC Short Play Festival; His play THE OKTAVIST was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Gary Garrison Award for Short Playwriting and will be published this fall in The Tusculum Review. He’s a regular contributor to Motolla Theatre Project’s annual Cherry Picking new-play-generating event at the Wild Project in NYC, and he’s a three-time finalist for the National Playwriting Award at City Theatre in Miami. His full-length ghost story play WAKE is available from Next Stage Press.  He received a Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Play for David Johnston’s Candy and Dorothy. Other notable acting credits include Leigh Fondakowski’s SPILL at Ensemble Studio Theatre; I Am My Own Wife and Fully Committed at Barrington Stage Company; I Am My Own Wife again at Two Turns Theatre Company; and The Temperamentals at New World Stages, standing by for Michael Urie. He’s appeared on TV in BLUE BLOODS, LAW & ORDER: ORGANIZED CRIME, and the upcoming ZERO DAY on Netflix; you can also catch him being himself in the documentary MARRIED AND COUNTING, on the Pippin episode of ENCORE! on Disney+, on a certain rerun of Jeopardy, and as a guest bloviator on various podcasts.