From AbsoluteWrite.com: Robert Patrick was once a star of the off-off-Broadway theatre scene, and moved up to off-Broadway status with a fine play called Kennedy's Children. But when he moved to Hollywood, "TV producers were unimpressed by the many thousands of productions of my 50 published plays worldwide," so now he ghosts TV shows, filling orders for other writers who've taken on too much. We salute him for surviving. We also wish the world was fairer.

Monday, January 10, 2005

 

From FilmStew: Screenwriter Stephen (The Grudge) Susco remembers what it was like starting out in the profession: the pits. Hoping to help beginners get the lay of the land a little more quickly and a little less painfully than he did, he's teamed up with The Writers Room to offer three lucky writers a year-long mentorship. Now, about that $45 application fee . . .

 

From The Guardian: This fine essay by British playwright David ("Nicholas Nickleby," "That Summer") Edgar begins as a consideration of the Birmingham Rep conflagration (which saw mobs shut down a new play), but goes on to wonder how theatre might become a builder of community again.