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Playwright - Screenwriter - Novelist.

Tony Barone

Selected work for stage, screen, and page.

Historical and period adventure

Real people, real stories, and the moment private lives collide with public history

Screenplay

The Adventures of Cordelia Samuels

Novel

Whispers

Screenplay

Lissadell House

Screenplay

The Bridge to Brookly

Screenplay

Boricua

Screenplay

Mary Walker: The Lady Doctor

Screenplay

Sultry
About
Tony Barone writes historical and period adventure for stage and screen — stories built on real people, real stakes, and the moments when private lives collide with public history. His subjects run from a Civil War battlefield surgeon to the fever wards of the Panama Canal, from a Gilded Age crossing to a house divided in an American backyard.

A graduate of Columbia University in English, he has had stage work produced and named a Best Play finalist, and his screenplays have placed in national competitions. He lives and writes in New Jersey.
Education
Columbia University, English
Stage
Produced work; Best-Play finalist
Screen
Competition placements
Based
New Jersey
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I built this website to make it easy to get to OneDrive, where the Fingerboard collection of more than 60,000 photos and videos is stored. Over time, I added pages for family news, family trees, and notable deeds. Last year, as therapy for my severe case of TDS, I added a blog called "spouting off" and have been doing so ever since.

Regarding my opinions... Churchill once said, "These, Gentlemen, are the opinions on which I base my facts." I admit to sometimes representing opinions as facts, but there's very little danger in doing this with Trump. His shenanigans are so over the top that a few opinion v. fact slips hardly matter. As for the number of people who are reading these opinions, according to my hit-counter, this website gets about 60 visitors a day. Most of these are bots, but some are real people. To those visitors who want to respond or make a comment, please use email. To those who are Trump supporters, like many of our friends and neighbors, and are bothered by my comments, I respectfully suggest you find someone worthy of your admiration or, like me, just subscribe to what Ann Landers said, "At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all." I would add that at age 80, we're just happy that we can have concerns about any of this.

By the way, the pictures are me at 20 and 80.

Regarding security... Given that the site is getting 60 visits a day and that some of them are internet morons and knucle draggers, I've decided to password protect the Onedrive pictures and videos. Let me know if you need access.  I've also edited other links on the site to limit access to a particular video or photo album.

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