Mario Fratti (29 July 1927 – 15 April 2023) was an Italian playwright and drama critic.
Born in L'Aquila, Fratti graduated in foreign languages and literatures at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
[2][3] In 1962, Fratti presented his one-act play Suicidio at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, and Lee Strasberg, a guest of the festival, was impressed by it and invited him to stage it at the Actors Studio.
[2][3] Fratti eventually decided to stay in New York, where he found work as a professor of Italian literature at Columbia University.
[2][3] In his later life, he was named as professor emeritus of Italian Literature at Hunter College.