Cary Gitter

Cary Gitter is a playwright and librettist based in the New York area, serving as playwright-in-residence at Penguin Rep Theatre in Stony Point, New York. His plays and musicals include Gene & Gilda, The Steel Man, The Virtuous Life of Joseph Andrews, and The Sabbath Girl, several written with composer Neil Berg. He also writes fiction, and his debut novel, Cammy Sitting Shiva, is slated for publication by Alcove Press in August 2025. His work has been developed at many theaters and labs, and he has earned multiple playwriting honors and finalist placements. The James Stevenson Lost and Found Lab hosted a March 2023 reading of his play Gene & Gilda, directed by Joe Brancato.