Santino DeAngelo is a New York based playwright, composer+lyricist, and Tony Award® nominated Broadway producer. Described by the New York Times as having a “gift for engaging melodies”, Santino’s plays and musicals include ANOTHER HAPPY ENDING (winner of NYMF 2015 Next Link Project), THE OUTPOSTERS (NYC PrideFest 2019), and NARCISSUS: AN ANCIENT ROMAN PANTOMIME (recorded for television broadcast on PBS/WSKG in 2016). Santino assisted John Weidman on the 2017 off-Broadway revival of PACIFIC OVERTURES and was mentored by Alan Menken, David Henry Hwang, Chuck Mee, and Lynn Nottage.

Santino is the Executive Director of the Terrence McNally Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to continuing Terrence’s mission of developing opportunities for early-career playwrights and supporting LGBTQ+ causes. Santino had the great honor of working for Terrence until his passing in 2020 and works with Tom Kirdahy Productions as the Associate Producer of Terrence McNally Projects.

Santino was proud to be a co-producer on John Kander and Lin Manuel Miranda’s Broadway love letter, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, and is making his debut as a film co-producer at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Bill Condon’s KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN, starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh.

MFA Playwriting, Columbia ’18
BA Classics, Binghamton University ’13
@santinodeangelo