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Job Openings: Auditions, Positions
Theater Offensive Hiring
posted July 13, 2010

Launch a groundbreaking program bringing queer arts to local communities.

Managing Director - full-time:
Eexperienced, non-profit manager with strong fiscal and organizational management expertise to coordinate the day-to-day and overall organization operations, including: financial management, human resources, grants systems, office administration, and communications. Seeking a highly organized leader with the experience, skills and demeanor to help guide this $700,000 organization through continued and steady growth.

Assistant Director of Programs - full-time:
Responsible for executing and coordinating all company programs. Strong candidates will have a solid background in theater and education with proven teaching and directing experience and knowledge of national and international theater trends and best practices. Must have a well-tested passion for working with people from diverse backgrounds, especially LGBTQ people of all ages.

Development Assistant - part-time:
Supports the development manager in the administrative implementation of all development initiatives including a $200K fundraising event in the spring. Responsibilities include: phone, written and electronic communication, as well as data systems management.

The Theater Offensive operates year-round, multi-cultural, community-based theatrical programs including the “True Colors Out Youth Theater” and their new initiative, “OUT in Your Neighborhood.” They look to hire talented and creative folks. It is a great opportunity, not only to be part of a great queer theater organization, but also to share in a diverse community. The Theater Offensive is a resident theatre company at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Details: thetheateroffensive.org/jobs
617-661-1600; info@thetheateroffensive.org
Theater Offensive, 29 Elm St., #2, Cambridge, MA 02139



Ongoing Support Needed (no deadlines)
Seeking Volunteers: Rude Guerrilla
Ongoing: posted March 3, 2008

Opportunities in every aspect of the theater experience including ushering, production, set-building, design, marketing, and administration.

Volunteer website: rgtcvolunteer.blogspot.com

Aurelio Locsin, volunteer coordinator, 714-547-4688, rgtcvolunteer@gmail.com
Rude Guerrilla Theater Company, 202 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92870



Seeking Volunteers: Theater Offensive
Ongoing: posted May 15, 2007

Positions include: usher, flyer distribution, photographer, videographer, backstage helper, office help, marketing, etc.

Time commitment: regular or intermittent, weekday and weekend slots, day or evening. You determine your commitment level, and we work with you to find volunteer tasks that you’d enjoy.

Theater Offensive, 43 Thorndike St., Box 14, Cambridge, MA 02141
617-621-6090; joinus@thetheateroffensive.org
thetheateroffensive.org
“Forming and presenting the diverse realities of queer lives in art so bold it breaks through personal isolation and political orthodoxy to help build an honest, progressive community.”



Seeking Volunteers: Thorny Theater
Ongoing: posted July 17, 2006

Thorny Theater
2500 N. Palm Canyon Drive, #A4, Palm Springs, CA 92262



Seeking Stand-up Comics: Sunday Night Gay Comedy
2nd & 4th Sundays of the month - 8pm - ongoing series
Ongoing: posted January 3, 2006

QComedy’s “Sunday Night Gay Comedy” is San Francisco’s only ongoing gay comedy showcase.
Jon Sims Center, 1519 Mission St., San Francisco, California
Wheelchair accessible
Information 415-541-5610
To perform, contact: Nick Leonard nick@nickleonard.net



Seeking Volunteers: Performing Arts Collection
Ongoing: posted January 2004

Seeking volunteers to help in many areas: sorting, cataloguing, research, acquisition, events and more.

ONE Institute & Archives, 909 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007
213-741-0094; 310-854-0271
oneigla@usc.edu


Seeking Writers: Lodestar Quarterly
Ongoing: posted March 6, 2005

Lodestar Quarterly, an online journal of gay and lesbian literature, seeks one-act and full length drama. No minimum, and a maximum length of 100 standard-formatted pages. Submissions accepted in Microsoft Word or plain text format with a brief bio and relevant contact information.

editors@lodestarquarterly.com
www.lodestarquarterly.com/submit



Seeking Scripts: Theaters, Festivals, Contests
Solo Performance Plays Wanted
NO Deadline - posted May 28, 2010

We invite submissions from anyone who has a solo script he or she would like to publish.

Rules

  1. The script must be original and be written by a person who submits the script. The submitter must sign an agreement confirm that this is true.
  2. The script must be for one performer only.
  3. The content should include serious consideration of existential themes reflecting upon political, sexual, economical, religious, and/or social diversity.
Submissions
     Send all of the following - preferably in RTF, PDF, or Word document form - to: upub@unitedsolo.org
  1. Your solo script
  2. A one-page summary of the performance
        (author, plot, and approximate run time, as well as lighting and prop requirements)
  3. A 200-word author’s bio
  4. If applicable: history of performances, list of reviews, and awards
        (copies of reviews encouraged)
  5. Your contact information
        (address, e-mail, website, telephone)
  6. The Agreement form
        United Solo Agreement
The scripts we select will be published online and/or (at our discretion) in print.

A playwright gives the United Solo a right to publish the submitted script in electronic or printed form. United solo will retain the publication rights for one year after publication.

United Solo supports solo theater not only by bringing the very best work to the stage; we also publish scripts. Our purpose is to promote solo writings and to make solo materials available to all who are interested for discussion, criticism, and sharing within the community of theater makers and among the interested public.

More Information
     info@unitedsolo.org
     United Solo Publish



1st Annual United Solo Theatre Festival
Deadline: June 30, 2010

Festival: November 12-14, 2010, Theatre ROW on 42nd Street, New York City

United Solo Theatre Festival is an annual international festival for solo performances held in New York City. Through a diverse range of one-person shows, we explore and celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

Application

  1. Fill out the PDF application:
    2010 United SOLO Theatre Festival Application
    Please print clearly or type. Print out the completed form, sign, and date.
  2. Include the following mandatory materials with the application:
    • Nonrefundable $30 application fee in the form of a certified check, cashier's check, or money order in US Dollars, collectible from a US bank and payable to United Solo Theatre Festival. Write the SHOW TITLE and NAME OF PERFORMER on the memo line of your check or money order. No cash, personal or company checks will be accepted. (Alternatively, you may submit the application fee using credit card or PayPal secure online payment on our Web site. Due to the transfer costs, this option will cost $33. Include the SHOW TITLE and NAME OF PERFORMER along with the submission).
    • Script or text of proposed show.
    • Bios of artists and staff involved in your show.
  3. Feel free to include the following supporting materials:
    • Cover letter explaining why your show is a good fit for the United Solo Theatre Festival.
    • DVD of your show (standard US format – NO VHS, please).
    • CD of music (if applicable).
    • Any other supporting materials you think are relevant, including (but not limited to) the following: postcard samples, photos, press clippings, etc.
  4. Mail completed application, check or money order (unless submitted online), and supporting materials postmarked using shipping methods that do NOT require signature. If you wish to be notified that your application has arrived, please enclose a self-addressed stamped postcard. All application materials must be contained in one envelope (no larger than 10 x 13 inches), and postmarked by June 30, 2010 to:
    United Solo, 680 Riverside Drive, #4B, New York, NY 10031, USA
Additional Information

Submitted materials will NOT be returned to applicants. If your application is deemed incomplete, late and/or contains a personal check or company check, it will not be read, nor will it be returned to you.

If you are submitting more than one show, each show must have its own application, supporting materials, and application fee and be submitted separately with its own postmark.

The list of selected shows and a waiting list will be announced on unitedsolo.org around July 15, 2010. We will contact applicants selected for the Festival by July 31, 2010. The complete festival schedule will be announced around August 15, 2010.

Acceptance/Participation Fee

Selected artists will receive a participants’ packet. This packet must be completed and returned to us by August 31, 2010, and accompanied by a nonrefundable $250 participation fee, in the form of a certified check, cashier‘s check or money order (or $265 using credit card or PayPal secure online payment).Your show may also be selected as an alternate performance on a waiting list. Alternate shows may begin to be moved onto the participants list in September 2010.

Box Office/Ticketing

United Solo handles all aspects of ticketing and Box Office. Full priced tickets are $20, though some discount tickets will be available. Artists will receive a fee of 25% of the price of each ticket sold. (Paid artists will be considered independent contractors for tax reporting purposes).

Technical/Production

Artists are advised to keep the technical requirements of their show very simple. Selected shows will have one or two performances (depending on the festival schedule) in an up-to-55 seat black box theatre. The venue is equipped with basic lights and sound capabilities. Storage space in the venue is minimal. Since the space is shared by all shows, you may not store props, set pieces and costumes in the venue. Each show will have one cue-to-cue technical rehearsal in the venue.

Participants Provide

• A fully prepared, rights secured, audience-ready production. (If you are a member of the Actors’ Equity Association, you must obtain and sign the Equity Showcase Code, as producer of your show. The Festival is merely the presenter).
• All contractual, technical, and promotional materials on time when requested.
• All travel and living expenses.
• Your own promotional and publicity materials (press releases, posters, postcards, on-site promotions, flyers, and anything else that will help draw attention to your show).
• Additional technical equipment not available at the venue (i.e. projectors, fog machines, keyboards, etc.).

United Solo Provides

• Inclusion in our program guide, website and overall festival publicity. A detailed program and publicity questionnaire will be sent to all artists after securing a slot.
• One technician for your production. Our technician usually operates the lighting and sound boards. It is recommended that every company supply a stage manager and any additional operators required for their production.
• All front of house staff (Box Office, usher, house manager).

More Information
     info@unitedsolo.org
     United Solo Festival



One Act LGBT Plays Wanted
Deadline: April 17, 2010

For the Gay Play Series hosted by the Who Wants Cake? theater group for 2 weekend series in July 2010.
An audience poll will select one of those plays that will receive a full production at The Ringwald Theatre during the 2010-11 season.

Submission requirements:

  • Content: issues or characters that are identified as gay/lesbian/transgender, or contain a gay sensibility.
  • “Straight” plays (no pun intended) or musicals will be considered.
  • Play runs 30 minutes or less.
  • The scripts should never have been produced.
  • Script must be ready for presentation.
  • Provide cover sheet with run time and a one-sentence synopsis.
  • Only one entry per person.
  • Submission materials will not be returned.
  • No entry fee.
The final line-up will be announced in June 2010.
Casting and directing opportunities will be announced at a later date.

Send submissions to:
      The Ringwald Theatre, 22742 Woodward Ave., Ferndale, MI 48220
      No fax or email submissions accepted.
Information: Joe Plambeck, 586-604-1078; joe2@whowantscaketheatre.com



Short LGBT Plays Wanted
Deadline: April 1, 2010 (was February 15, 2010)

For the 11th Annual Short Play Festival hosted by
the NativeAliens Theatre Collective of New York
in June 2010 during Gay Pride Week

A celebration of the playwright, Short Stories is a collection of short plays from the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender perspective.

Submission requirements:

  • Maximum performance time 10 minutes.
  • Typed double-spaced in 10 pt. or larger font.
  • Original works for which the applicant holds all rights.
  • Written from the gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender perspective.
  • Playwright’s name should appear only on the Title Page.
  • Complete the one-page application.
  • Submit via e-mail or paper mail:
    • E-mail the play and application as either a Word or PDF file to: natc.shortstories@gmail.com
                or
    • Paper mailed to: NATC Short Stories c/o Scott Smith, 364 West 52nd St., #2E, New York, NY 10019
  • $5 per play (non-refundable processing and reading fee) - check or paypal.
    Previously produced Short Stories playwrights are exempt from the fee.
    • Make checks to “NativeAliens Theatre Collective,” with the title of play in memo line.
                or
    • Send credit card payments via Paypal.com
      Please include the title of play(s) in the special comments section on the Paypal Web site form.
Submission instructions: nativealiens.org/id67.html


Seeking Scripts for “San Francisco Stories”
Deadline: December 1, 2009

Seeking short plays set in San Francisco.

Rules:

  • Playwrights must live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Each playwright may submit two scripts.
  • Each script must be no more than ten pages long.
  • All submissions must be electronic in MS Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format only. (If you cannot send an electronic copy, contact us and we will make arrangements for hard copy submission.)
  • No scripts will be returned. (No SASE)
  • Plays that have received a production of any kind (Equity or non-Equity)or longer than a one-act are not accepted.
  • Each manuscript must be typed and in standard script format.
  • Title page must include name, address, phone number, and e-mail (if possible).
Contact:
wilywestproductions@yahoo.com
Wily West Productions


Seeking Play Submissions on Sexual Identity
Deadline: August 17, 2009

Seeking scripts for the Boston Actors Theater’s 2009-2010 season.
Plays must be original, full-length and deal with sexual identity.
Selected works recieve $100 and a professional production in Boston, Mass for a two-three week run.

Please send scripts with a short synopsis and bio of the author to joeycpelletier@gmail.com
Information: Joey C. Pelletier: 617-888-0728



Submissions: New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest
Deadline: July 31, 2009
Winners announced: about December 31, 2009

Mission Statement Criteria:

  1. Enhance self-realization
  2. Support peace and social justice
  3. Foster new understanding of minority issues that focus on racial, ethnic and gender discrimination both in the United States and abroad
  4. Empower youth to build healthy inner foundations
  5. Educate to gain further insight into healthy social/emotional living
  6. Shed new light on religious, spiritual, and cultural differences and issues
  7. Build respect for cultural expression and identity in a world that is experiencing rapid globalization
  8. Explore the widening gap between the values this country was founded on and the values we present to the world today
Play Requirements:

Original full-length (no longer than 2 hours or 100 pages U.S. Standard Format) and one-act stage plays including children’s plays. Scripts that received a workshop, staged reading, or non-professional production are also eligible. Plays submitted must be the original work of the author and meet the above Mission Statement Criteria.

Do Not Submit:
Musicals, published scripts, scripts that have received a professional production, adaptations, collections, poems, scripts that do not meet the above Mission Statement Criteria, and scripts over 2 hours or 100 pages U.S. Standard Format.

Submission Requirements:

  • Application and Check List filled out.
  • Prefer U.S. Standard Format, though this format is not required.
  • Submit clean copies, not originals.
  • Script is to be securely bound (no clips). Avoid spiral binding and hard cover looseleaf binders if possible.
  • Full Contact Information on the cover/title page.
  • Brief Synopsis of the play, no longer than half a page, bound into script. *
  • Under the Synopsis, a two sentence Log Line.
  • Brief Character Descriptions, bound into script. *
  • Script pages must be numbered.
  • Time and Place, bound into script. *
  • Set Requirements, bound into script. *
  • If the play has accompanying film sequences, include a DVD of them.
  • If the play has unusual accompanying sound, include a CD.
  • To verify script receipt, submit a Self-Addressed Stamped Postcard. Write the name of the play on the postcard along with the contest name. We will return this postcard to you with the play’s Roster Intake number.
  • Include a SASE for script evaluations.
  • Send a CERTIFIED CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY.
* Be sure to include a Bound Synopsis, Character Description, Set Requirements, and Time and Place. If you do not have a way to fasten them, you may staple them behind the cover page.

Fees:

$25 per script

Contest Awards:

1st Place Award: $300 and a reading
2nd and 3rd Place Awards: a reading
Certificates of Honorable Mention will be given for noteworthy scripts of merit.

All readings will be presented at theatre venues in Manhattan, among them Thirteenth Street Repertory Theatre.

More Detailed Information:

Submission Information
Application Form

Contact:

Sandra Nordgren 917-363-2369; newworksofmerit@aol.com
New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest
511 Ave. of the Americas, #2000, New York City, NY 10011-8436



Workshops
Michael Kearns 6-Week Intensive
May 1-June 12, 2010 - Saturdays 9:30am-noon

Michael Kearns
photo: Jim Cox  

Exploring the opening scenes of Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who’s Afraid of intimacy, confrontation, sex, anger, physicality, resentment, Virginia Woolf?
If you answered “I am” to one or more of the above, Michael Kearns’ Acting Class is for you.

Michael Kearns has been teaching acting for more than three decades in a safe, non-judgmental, and fun environment.

Michael Kearns has featured in the world of art and politics for more than three decades, combining a mainstream career in film and television with prolific theatrical experience that includes writing, acting, directing, and producing.

MountHollywoodPresbyterian Church, Los Feliz, California
May 1, 8, 15, 22, June 5, 12 - 9:30am-noon
$300
Information: 323-661-3406; mkla@att.net



Media
DVD: Demian’s Film & Video Projects - archive DVD
21 shorts and excerpts: 1967-2006


Bruce (Erik Maahs) is
defensive when Bill (Mark
Johnson) vents his fury in
“The Fight Before Christmas”
Contains an excerpt from “The Fight Before Christmas” — a heart-warming story of Bruce and Bill, a male couple, loosely based on Clement Moore’s familiar poem, “The Night Before Christmas.” Bruce pretends his mom is Santa, while she pretends the two men are just roommates. But it is Bill, not Santa, who hits the roof.

Rev. Mel White in
“The Right to Marry”
Also contains an excerpt from “The Right to Marry” — the first documentary (1996) about the struggle for the civil right of legal marriage for same-sex couples.
Click here for more information on contents and ordering: Demian’s Film & Video Projects - archive DVD


Book: Return to the Caffe Cino

Edited by Steve Susoyev and George Birimisa.
Published November 6, 2006 by Moving Finger Press.

A collection of 22 plays originally produced at the Cafe Cino in Greenwich Village, circa 1959-1967, with memoir-style essays by many of the pioneers who helped to launch the revolution that took place in American theatre on the Cino’s 8-by-8-foot stage. Contributors include such Broadway legends as actress Bernadette Peters, playwright Edward Albee, and director Tom O’Horgan.

Steve Susoyev writes for the legal community on the child-custody rights of gay and lesbian parents and other human rights issues. His bestselling memoir, “People Farm,” won a 2004 Writer’s Digest “Culture Award.” Steve practices law in San Francisco, specializing in the needs of people with life-threatening conditions.

George Birimisa was the first openly gay playwright to receive a Rockefeller Foundation Grant. He later won the Drama-Logue Award for his 1978 play “Rainbow in the Night.” “Daddy Violet,” the 1967 play included in this collection, opened at the Cafe Cino and went on to tour college campuses in the U.S. and Canada. George is the founder and director of Intergeneration Writing Workshops in San Francisco. He won the “Harry Hay” award in 2005.

The hardcover edition is marked at $44.95 and can be found for $29.67.



Book: My Blue Heaven

Josie and Molly, an urban, lesbian couple move to the country to save money, and enable one of them to pursue her writing career. They are nominated as couple of the year. An unwitting young man arrives to notify them of this honor, only to find a very different couple than he assumed.

One of Chambers funniest plays, it was the season opener for the Glines’ Second Gay American Arts Festival in 1981. Chamber directed the premiere on June 3, 1981 at the Shandol Theatre, New York, New York.

Jane Chambers’ irrepressible comedy, “My Blue Heaven” is available from TnT Classic Books, which also has published Chambers’ “A Late Snow,” “Last Summer at Bluefish Cove,” “Burning,” “Chasin’ Jason” and “Warrior at Rest,” as well as plays by Doric Wilson, Sidney Morris, Robert Chesley and Arch Brown.

A trade paper back, the library-type edition of “My Blue Heaven” has author comments, and information on the first New York production. The three-character play was designed to be easily produced with a simple set.

The $7.95 book may be purchased through:
TnT Classic Books
Womancrafts
Drama Book Shop
Samuel French



Book: 1001 Beds

A collection of my essays, performances, manifestos, journals, and performance touring stories from Tokyo-to-Chattanooga, written by Tim Miller.

For a signed copy, send an $18 (retails for $20) check to:
Tim Miller, P.O. Box 794, Venice, CA 90294-0794



Book: Michelangelo’s Models

design by Andrew Caldwall  
“Michelangelo’s Models,” the full-length, Renaissance romantic comedy by Robert Patrick is available in a 100-page acting edition with 30 black and white illustrations from four productions. Los Angeles playwright Robert Patrick, author of more than fifty published plays, is best known for his international success, “Kennedy’s Children.” He has ghostwritten for many films and TV shows.

photo by Andrew Caldwall  
Robert Patrick also wrote “Temple Slave” a novel, in part, about the early years of the modern gay theater movement. He was honored, on June 28, 2004, with the Off-Off Broadway Review Award of Excellence for the best play produced Off-Off Broadway (June 2003-to-May 2004) for his comedy “Hollywood at Sunset.”

For comments on “Hollywood at Sunset” and “Michelangelo’s Models,” please see this report from Bill Kaiser and Doric Wilson: Bi-coastal Robert Patrick

= $12 check or money order
= Robert Patrick, 1837 N., Alexandria Ave., #211, Los Angeles, CA 90027
= Please write on check: “I am over 18”
= Please include your e-address
Foreign sales: rbrtptrck@aol.com



Web site: Lodestar Quarterly

Read on-line, new fiction, poetry, and drama by some of today’s finest gay and lesbian writers.



Book: The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays

Purple Circuit member Kenneth Krauss has provided the introduction for a new version of The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays by Oscar Wilde. Kenneth is the author of The Drama of Fallen France: Reading la Comedie Sans Tickets, an examination of various dramatic works written, or produced, in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Both books available from Barnes and Noble.



Book: Lord Alfred’s Lover

Monstrous Martyrdoms: Three Plays, Eric Bentley’s play about Oscar Wilde, “Lord Alfred’s Lover,” is available from Northwestern University Press for $16.

The 150th anniversary of Wilde’s birth was celebrated in 2004. Producers interested in mounting this gay classic can contact the author at kismkate@aol.com, or through Samuel French, Inc., 7623 Sunset Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90046; 323-876-0570; fax 323-876-6822.



CD: Judy’s Scary Little Christmas

Co-written by James Webber and David Church
Composer and lyricist Joe Patrick Ward
Directed by Kay Cole

The show is a mix of a 1959 Judy Garland Christmas TV special and “The Twilight Zone.” Among Judy’s guests are: Bing Crosby, Liberace, Ethel Merman, Richard Nixon, Lillian Hellman, Joan Crawford, and Death.

This CD recreates the show, which premiered at the Victory Theater Center (Burbank, California), and played at the Court Theatre (West Hollywood, California), and in Portland, Oregon. It plays in Chicago and Des Moines in winter, 2005.

Cast includes: Connie Champagne, Sean Smith, Don Lucas, Lauri Johnson, Eric Anderson, Jan Sheldrick, Joanne O’Brien, Mark A. Cross, Dustin Strong, Jonathan Neeley, Terri Homberg-Olsen, Allen Everman II.

Connie Champagne recreates for the CD her performance as Judy Garland, for which she won an Ovation Award.

The CD can be purchased via: www.judyschristmas.com
$19.95



CD: Film Moi: Narcissus in the Dark

            
image by Howard Cruse              

A Robert Patrick autobiography seen through his favorite movies.
On CD-ROM formatted in MS Word.
$15 check
Robert Patrick, 1837 N., Alexandria Ave., #211, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Please state you are 18+ and aware you are ordering adult material.
Please include your e-address.
Info: rbrtptrck@aol.com

The disk contains more than 1000 illustrations in chapter-length critiques of 14 favorite films. Patrick is the author of “Kennedy’s Children,” “Blue is for Boys,” “T Shirts,” and “Untold Decades.” In “Film Moi,” he analyzes his life and times (1937-ongoing), the trends and traumas of Hollywood, and “the whirled we live in.”

Chapters include:
“Broken Blossoms,” “Fantasia,” “All About Eve,” “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” “The Ten Commandments,” “Vertigo & Marnie,” “Gigi & Damn Yankees,” “Sweet Smell of Success,” “Judgment at Nuremberg,” “La Dolce Vita & 8 1/2,” “Porn,” “Nashville,” “All That Jazz,” “Aliens & Prick Up Your Ears”

Selected Quotes:
“American culture is eating itself in front of a mirror, like a porn star.”
“Charlton Heston is indisputably the lead in The Ten Commandments — no matter how you pronounce ‘lead.’”
“Pornography recaptures the original thrill of film — simply seeing ordinary things moving on a screen.”

“Patrick, a founding father of gay drama in America, writes with intelligent perception about movies … Patrick’s candid commentary on his own precocious sexual and artistic life is equally absorbing … Patrick’s prose is so smart and fluid that it’s hard to, well, put the ‘book’ down.” — Richard LaBonte, in his syndicated column, September 2003.

Robert Patrick, Playwright on WordPress
Robert Patrick (playwright) on Wikipedia



Book: You Could Drive a Person Crazy

You Could Drive a Person Crazy: Chronicle of an American Theatre Company,” by Scott Miller is about St. Louis’ only alternative musical theater company, New Line.

The book includes material on the theater’s first ten seasons, as well as thoughts about New Line from Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim, and Post Dispatch critics Judy Newmark and Gerry Kowarsky. It contains a show-by-show history of the company, including cast and staff lists, review quotes, director’s program notes, and reminiscences from actors, designers, directors, choreographers, and audience members.

“You Could Drive a Person Crazy” is published by Writer’s Club Press (ISBN 0-595-26311-9) for $17.95.



Services
Script Doctor Services

This service is for play or movie scripts needing a seasoned writer/director/actor to give you feedback, correct grammar and spelling, as well as check for character consistencies and plot development.

Demian
Sweet Corn Productions
Box 9685, Seattle, WA 98109
206-935-1206
demian@buddybuddy.com

Click here for more information on this service and for rates: Script Doctor for Film and Stage



Resources
Play Publishers and Distributors

Drama Book Shop
      Book sellers, blog.
      212-944-0595; fax 212-730-8739; info@dramabookshop.com
      250 W. 40th St., New York, NY 10018

Samuel French
      Play publishers and author representatives.
      212-206-8990; fax 212-206-1429; info@samuelfrench.com
      45 West 25th St., New York, NY 10010-2751

TnT Classic Books
      Independent book and play publisher. Huge selection of plays with lesbian and gay content.
      212-736-6279; fax 212-695-3219; tntclassics@aol.com
      360 West 36 St. #2NW, New York, NY 10018-6412


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