
Writing
Adriana Trigiani
Place of birth
Big Stone Gap, Virginia, USA
Known for
Writing
Credits
8 titles
Adriana Trigiani is the bestselling author of sixteen books, including the instant New York Times bestseller All the Stars in the Heavens, the blockbuster epic The Shoemaker's Wife; the Big Stone Gap series; Lucia, Lucia; the Valentine series; the Viola series for young adults and the bestselling memoir Don't Sing at the Table. She was an award-winning writer/producer of The Cosby Show (1984) and A Different World (1987) and show runner and executive producer of CityKids (1993). She is the award-winning filmmaker of the documentary Queens of the Big Time (1996). Trigiani wrote and directed the major motion picture Big Stone Gap (2014), based on her debut novel and filmed entirely on location…
Known for
6.0A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
Then Came You
2020
8.5The Italian Americans is a PBS documentary series about the Italian experience in America. The series, written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Stanley Tucci, explores the evolution of Italian Americans from the late nineteenth century to today, from “outsiders” once viewed with suspicion and mistrust to some of the most prominent leaders of business, politics and the arts today.
The Italian Americans
2015
5.8A story centered on a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
Big Stone Gap
2014
5.7Owners of the Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, fight to save the company during financial hardships.
Very Valentine
2019
Director Adriana Trigiani, an Italian-American best-selling author, directed this award-winning documentary of her father’s hometown of Roseto, Pennsylvania, an Italian-American community recreating their old village, featuring a central love story. The film, starring Sarah Saveri and Marino Saveri, explores themes of love, tradition, and identity through the story of a woman whose life is disrupted by the return of a former love.
Queens of the Big Time
1996
Series credits
Behind the camera
6.0A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
Then Came You
2020
6.0A lonely widow plans a trip around the world with her husband's ashes, to visit the places they loved in the movies. During her first stop in Scotland at the beautiful estate she stays in, she meets the innkeeper who changes her life forever.
Then Came You
2020
5.8A story centered on a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
Big Stone Gap
2014
5.8A story centered on a transitional point in the life of Ave Maria Mulligan, the heart of her community in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia.
Big Stone Gap
2014
5.7Owners of the Angelini Shoe Company, one of the last family-owned businesses in Greenwich Village, fight to save the company during financial hardships.
Very Valentine
2019
Director Adriana Trigiani, an Italian-American best-selling author, directed this award-winning documentary of her father’s hometown of Roseto, Pennsylvania, an Italian-American community recreating their old village, featuring a central love story. The film, starring Sarah Saveri and Marino Saveri, explores themes of love, tradition, and identity through the story of a woman whose life is disrupted by the return of a former love.
Queens of the Big Time
1996
Director Adriana Trigiani, an Italian-American best-selling author, directed this award-winning documentary of her father’s hometown of Roseto, Pennsylvania, an Italian-American community recreating their old village, featuring a central love story. The film, starring Sarah Saveri and Marino Saveri, explores themes of love, tradition, and identity through the story of a woman whose life is disrupted by the return of a former love.
Queens of the Big Time
1996
