Rico Gagliano

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]

Biography

Rico is the son of Frank Gagliano, a playwright and theater educator,[6][7][8] and Sandra Gagliano, an opera singer and voice instructor.[9]

He received his B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a DJ at college station WPTS-FM.[10] [11] He earned an MFA in Screenwriting from The American Film Institute in Los Angeles.[12]

Early career

Gagliano contributed arts features and criticism to In Pittsburgh newsweekly (now Pittsburgh City Paper).[13] He briefly served as the paper’s music editor. His arts profiles, reviews and previews also appeared regularly in the daily Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.[14]

Upon moving to Los Angeles in 1995, Gagliano freelanced for LA Weekly [15] before turning to public radio — filing features for Marketplace, All Things Considered, Weekend America, and the Savvy Traveler.[16][17][18]

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.[19][20]

Dinner Party Download

In 2008, Gagliano co-created the podcast “The Dinner Party Download” with Brendan Francis Newnam.[21] 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 hour-long weekly radio show in 2011.[22] It ran for 400 episodes and aired on 183 public radio stations.[23]

The show was nominated for multiple podcasting honors, including “Best Arts And Culture Show” at the 2018 Webby Awards.[24] It was named “Best Food and Drink Podcast” by the Academy of Podcasters at the 2016 Podcast Movement conference.[25] Gagliano’s interviews garnered two National Arts & Entertainment Journalism awards and a Southern California Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club.[26][27][28]

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.[29] The show aired its 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.[4] 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.[30]

Current Work

Until 2020, Gagliano co-hosted two shows for the podcasting network Wondery: Safe For Work and One Plus One.[31][32] Both of these podcasts ended production in 2020. He is also a recurring guest host at the NPR affiliates KCRW-FM and KPCC-FM in Southern California,[33] and contributes music, food, and travel print features to the Wall Street Journal.[34][35]

References
  1. "About The Dinner Party Download". The Dinner Party Download. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  2. "Rico Gagliano". www.marketplace.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  3. Faughnder, By Ryan. "Rico Gagliano and Brendan Francis Newnam's 'Dinner Party' breaks ice". latimes.com. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  4. "Rico Gagliano". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  5. "Articles by Rico Gagliano | Freelance Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  6. Gagliano, Frank (1967). Night of the Dunce: A Play. Dramatists Play Service Inc. ISBN 9780822208228.
  7. "Dramatists Play Service, Inc". www.dramatists.com. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  8. "WVUToday Archive". wvutoday-archive.wvu.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  9. A gala evening of the Berkshire Music Center. Wednesday, August 21, 1963.
  10. McClain, Heather. "The Host with the Most Comes to Pittsburgh". www.wesa.fm. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  11. "Film & Media Studies Undergraduate Alumni".
  12. "Rico Gagliano, bylines for the Dinner Party Download".
  13. ""We Rocked, and Now We're Dead" | Industry News | AltWeeklies.com". archive.altweeklies.com. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  14. "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  15. "Rico Gagliano | Los Angeles News and Events | LA Weekly". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  16. "Burning Man". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  17. "Weekend America for Saturday, January 15, 2005". weekendamerica.publicradio.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  18. "The Savvy Traveler Rundown - Week of December 12, 2003". savvytraveler.publicradio.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  19. "India's Dalits seek economic equality". www.marketplace.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  20. "What else can airlines charge us for?". www.marketplace.org. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  21. "Episode 1: The Watson Twins, Dillinger, Hot Sauce". The Dinner Party Download. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  22. "Episode 119: Antonio Banderas, Old-School Candy, and Music from a Non-belieber". The Dinner Party Download. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  23. "'Dinner Party Download' to end production". The Dinner Party Download. Retrieved 2019-02-24.>
  24. "Dinner Party Download -- The Webby Awards". Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  25. "APM Wins Academy of Podcasters Awards". American Public Media. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  26. "National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards – Los Angeles Press Club" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  27. "National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards – Los Angeles Press Club" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  28. "National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards – Los Angeles Press Club" (PDF). Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  29. "New & Noteworthy". The New York Times. 2017-12-05. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  30. "Damon Lindelof Finds Freedom in Limitations and Ponders the Paradoxes of Fandom". The Dinner Party Download. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  31. "7 Podcasts You Should Be Listening to in 2019". Cosmopolitan.
  32. "One Plus One". ART19. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  33. Radio, Southern California Public (2018-12-28). "FilmWeek: 'Stan & Ollie,' 'A Twelve-Year Night' and 2018's most overlooked films". Southern California Public Radio. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  34. Gagliano, Rico (2018-07-23). "Remembering Jonathan Gold, Los Angeles Food Critic". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  35. Gagliano, Rico (2020-03-26). "Seven Kid-Friendly Songs That Won't Drive Parents Insane". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
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