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Rico Gagliano is an American journalist, podcaster and radio host (1). He is best known as the co-host, with Brendan Francis Newnam, of American Public Media’s arts-and-culture radio show and podcast “The Dinner Party Download,” and as a reporter for the public radio business show “Marketplace.”(2)(3)  He has also written for television and print media.(4)(5)

BACKGROUND

Rico is the son of Frank Gagliano, a playwright and theater educator (6)(7)(8), and Sandra Gagliano, an opera singer and voice instructor.

He received his B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a DJ at college station WPTS-FM. (9)  He earned an MFA in Screenwriting from The American Film Institute in Los Angeles.(10)

He is married to public programmer and literary curator Corrina Lesser.

EARLY JOURNALISM CAREER

Gagliano contributed arts features and criticism to In Pittsburgh newsweekly (now Pittsburgh City Paper).(11)  He briefly served as the paper’s music editor. His arts profiles, reviews and previews also appeared regularly in the daily Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (12)

Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1995, Gagliano freelanced for LA Weekly (13) before turning to public radio — filing features for Marketplace, All Things Considered, Weekend America, and the Savvy Traveler. (14)(15)(16)

Gagliano was a full-time reporter for Marketplace from 2006 to 2010. In addition to domestic and foreign business & economy reporting, he wrote and produced the show’s “Marketplace Players” satirical sketches.(17)(18)

DINNER PARTY DOWNLOAD

In 2008, Gagliano co-created the podcast “The Dinner Party Download” with Brendan Francis Newnam.(19) The two also co-hosted and co-produced, with Gagliano as primary editor. Begun as an independent bi-weekly, 15-minute show, it was eventually produced and distributed by American Public Media, and expanded to an hourlong weekly radio show in 2011.(20)  It ran for 400 episodes and aired on over 175 public radio stations.(1)

“Dinner Party Download” was nominated for multiple podcasting honors, including “Best Arts And Culture Show” at the 2018 Webby Awards.(21)  In 2016 it was named “Best Food and Drink Podcast” by the Academy of Podcasters.(22) Gagliano’s interviews garnered two National Arts & Entertainment Journalism awards and a Southern California Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club.(23)(24)(25)

A companion book written by Gagliano and Newnam, “Brunch Is Hell: How To Save The World By Throwing A Dinner Party” was published by Little Brown Inc. in December 2017.(26)  The show aired it’s final all-new episode the same week.

TELEVISION

Gagliano was a writer’s assistant on the sixth season of the TV sitcom “Mad About You.”(27)  He spent several years thereafter writing for comedy, animation and reality TV, including Disney’s “Teamo Supremo” and Cartoon Network’s “Hero 108.”(4)  He was on the writing staff of MTV’s “Undressed” along with “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof and director Steven S. DeKnight.(28)

CURRENT WORK

Gagliano co-hosts two shows for the podcasting network Wondery: “Safe For Work” and “One Plus One.”(29)(30)  He is also a recurring guest host host at the NPR affiliate KPCC-FM in Southern California,(31) and contributes food and travel print features to the Wall Street Journal.(32)

1.     “About The Dinner Party Download” http://www.dinnerpartydownload.org/about/

2.     Los Angeles Times: “Rico Gagliano and Brendan Francis Newnam's 'Dinner Party' breaks ice” http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-dinner-party-download-20131228-story.html

3.     Marketplace.org: Features by Rico Gagliano https://www.marketplace.org/people/rico-gagliano

4.     IMDB.com: Rico Gagliano https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0300877/

5.     Muck Rack: Rico Gagliano https://muckrack.com/rico-gagliano-1/articles

6.     Play, “Night of the Dunce”: About The Author https://books.google.com/books?id=an7dOls5wGoC&lpg=PA2&ots=7uvoF95NoD&dq=%22frank%20gagliano%22%20%22night%20of%20the%20dunce%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=%22frank%20gagliano%22%20%22night%20of%20the%20dunce%22&f=false

7.     Dramatist Play Service : Frank Gagliano bio http://www.dramatists.com/dps/bios.aspx?authorbio=Frank+Gagliano

8.     “Frank Gagliano, Benedum Professor of Theatre, retiring; Cabaret set for May 3” http://wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu/n/2010/04/28/frank-gagliano-benedum-professor-of-theatre-retiring-cabaret-set-for-may-3.html

9.     WESA interview: The Host with the Most Comes To Pittsburgh http://wesa.fm/post/host-most-comes-pittsburgh

10.  TV.com: Rico Gagliano http://www.tv.com/people/rico-gagliano/

11.  Association of Alternative Newsmedia: “Epitaph For In Pittsburgh” http://archive.altweeklies.com/aan/we-rocked-and-now-were-dead/Article?oid=5810

12.  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Sixteen Years of Wretched Excess” by Rico Gagliano (retrieved Saturday 2/2/2019) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19920228&id=IrJRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SW4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=4036,7417803&hl=en

13.  LA Weekly: Rico Gagliano https://www.laweekly.com/authors/rico-gagliano-2126887

14.  All Things Considered: “Burning Man” by Rico Gagliano https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1150808

15.  Weekend America: “Amsterdam Blues” by Rico Gagliano http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/programs/index_20050115.html

16.  The Savvy Traveler: “The World Beard & Mustache Championship” by Rico Gagliano http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/show/rundowns/2003/20031212/rd20031212.shtml#rico

17.  Marketplace: “India’s Dalits Seek Economic Equality” by Rico Gagliano https://www.marketplace.org/2009/04/15/world/indias-dalits-seek-economic-equality

18.  Marketplace: “What Else Can Airlines Charge Us For?” by Rico Gagliano https://www.marketplace.org/2010/02/09/business/what-else-can-airlines-charge-us

19.  Dinner Party Download: Episode 1 https://www.dinnerpartydownload.org/episodes/1/

20.  Dinner Party Download: Episode 119 https://www.dinnerpartydownload.org/episodes/119/

21.  Webby Awards: 2018 Nominee - Dinner Party Download https://www.webbyawards.com/winners/2018/podcasts-digital-audio/general/arts-culture/dinner-party-download/

22.  American Pubic Media: “APM Wins Academy of Podcasters Awards” https://www.americanpublicmedia.org/apm-wins-academy-of-podcasters-awards/

23.  LA Press Club: “Winners of the 10th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards” http://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NAEJ-2017-WINNERS-UPDATED-DEC-10-1218.pdf

24.  LA Press Club: “Winners of the 11th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards” http://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2018-NAEJ-WINNERS-v1.pdf

25.  LA Press Club: “Winners of the 58th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards” http://lapressclub.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016-Southern-California-Journalism-Award-Winners.pdf

26.  New York Times: “New & Noteworthy” Dec. 15th 2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/books/review/new-noteworthy-nicholas-kristof.html

27.  IMDB: Rico Gagliano https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8734789/

28.  Dinner Party Download: “Damon Lindelof Finds the Freedom in Limitation…” https://www.dinnerpartydownload.org/damon-lindelof-finds-freedom-in-limitations-and-ponders-the-pardox-of-fandom/

29.  Cosmopolitan: “7 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To in 2019” https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/a25752064/best-new-podcasts-2019/

30.  Art19: One Plus One https://art19.com/shows/one-plus-one

31.  KPCC: Film Week For December 28, 2018 https://www.scpr.org/programs/filmweek/2018/12/28/19282/

32.  Wall Street Journal: “Remembering Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles Food Critic” by Rico Gagliano https://www.wsj.com/articles/remembering-jonathan-gold-los-angeles-food-critic-1532378877