Glenn Alterman

Playwriting/Literary Resume:
Glenn Alterman

Published Works  |  Commissioned Works  |  Playwriting Competitions  | 
Productions  |  Film Options  |  Theater Productions of Monologues  |
Script Doctor  |  Teaching/Master Classes  |  Training/Affiliations  |

 

PUBLISHED WORKS

BOOKS OF ORIGINAL MONOLOGUES

SIXTY SECONDS TO SHINE: 101 Original Monologues

  • 101 one new and original one-minute Alterman monologues written for actors

 

STREET TALK - Original Character Monologues for Actors

  • 50 original monologues from Alterman plays including: God in Bed, Tourists of the Mindfield, Kiss Me When It's Over, and Dirty Prayers

  • #1 best selling book of original monologues in the country (1992-93) Smith and Kraus, publisher

  •  "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Fireside Theater Division), multiple printings

 

UPTOWN

  • 50 original Alterman monologues, Smith and Kraus, publisher

  • "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Fireside Theater Division)

 

TWO MINUTES AND UNDER

  • 70 original Alterman monologues, Smith and Kraus, publisher

  • #1 best selling book of original monologues (1993-94)

  • "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Fireside Theater Division), multiple printings

 

TWO MINUTE MONOLOGS

  • 50 original Alterman monologues, Meriwether, publisher

  • "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Stage and Screen), 2nd printing

 

TWO MINUTES AND UNDER VOLUME 2

  • 59 original Alterman monologues, Smith and Kraus, publishers

 

THE PERFECT AUDITION MONOLOGUE

  • From Smith and Kraus Publishers

  • Information on finding just the right new material for Equity principal theater auditions, agent office auditions, casting director auditions, and even film auditions

  • Honored by the prestigious New York National Arts Council in an evening of readings from the book by contributors and a formal dinner.

 

TWO MINUTES AND UNDER VOLUME 3

  • Over 60 new, original Alterman monologues, Smith and Kraus, publishers - NEW!

 

BOOKS ON SHOW BUSINESS

THE JOB BOOK - 100 Acting Jobs for Actors

  • A listing/description of jobs where actors can use their acting skills, Smith and Kraus, publisher

  • "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Stage and Screen Division), 3rd printing

THE JOB BOOK II  - 100 Day Jobs for Actors

  • A listing/description of day jobs for actors, Smith and Kraus, publisher

  • "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Stage and Screen Division)

WHAT TO GET YOUR AGENT FOR CHRISTMAS - 100 Other Helpful Hints for The Working Actor

  • A tongue-in-cheek book of suggestions and ideas for actors, Smith and Kraus, publisher

  • "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Stage and Screen Division)

PROMOTING YOUR ACTING CAREER

  • Ways to propel an acting career forward.  Includes 55 in-depth interviews.  Allworth Press, publisher (1999)

  • "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Stage and Screen Division), 2nd printing

CREATING YOUR OWN MONOLOGUE

  • How to create and develop solo material.  Includes 20 in-depth interviews.  Allworth Press, publishers (1999)

  • "Featured Selection" Doubleday Book Club (Stage and Screen Division)

THE PERFECT AUDITION MONOLOGUE

  • An instructional monologue audition book for actors.  Includes interviews with talent agents, casting directors and directors.  Publication - Winter, 2004, Smith and Kraus, publisher

PROMOTING YOUR ACTING CAREER - 2nd Edition

  • Completely revised and updated 2nd Edition from Allworth Press.  Includes the most up to the minute information for actors with several new chapters.

AN ACTOR'S GUIDE - MAKING IT IN NEW YORK CITY

  • Everything a working actor needs to know before arriving in New York City.  Includes dozens of interviews with talent agents and casting directors.  Smith and Kraus, publishers

OTHER THEATRICAL MATERIAL

COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA

  • Award-winning play published in The Three Genres (college text book), Prentice Hall, publisher, 6th and 7th Editions

EDNA

  • Monologue from play "Spilt Milk," included in The Best Women's Monologues of 1992

 

COMMISSIONED WORKS

HEARTSTRINGS

  • Commissioned by D.I.F.F.A. (Design Industries Foundation for AIDS)

  • Completed the book for the musical that toured the country (35 cities), cast of 30, including Michelle Pfeiffer, Ron Silver, Christopher Reeve, Susan Sarandon, and Marlo Thomas

KISS ME WHEN IT'S OVER

  • Commissioned by E. Weissman Productions

  • Wrote the book for the musical that starred / directed by Andre DeShields (Wayne Cliento, choreographer) (LaMama)

 

 

PLAYWRITING COMPETITIONS

THE SEALING OF CEIL

  • WINNER- Arts and Letters Award in Drama (including publication of the play and a full production)

LIKE FAMILY

  • Competition Selection -- Pittsburgh New Works Festival

COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA

  • WINNER - 3 Genres Playwrights Contest (including publication in Prentice Hall college textbook)

  • The play has won the Three Genres Playwriting Competition for three consecutive years and appears in the 7th, 8th and 9th editions
  • The play is published in the Prentice Hall college textbook, The Three Genres, The Writing of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama

NOBODY'S FLOOD

  • WINNER - Bloomington National Playwrights Project

THE DANGER OF STRANGERS

  • HONORABLE MENTION - Deep South Writers Conference

  • FINALIST - Pittsburgh Rep., Act 1 Playwrights (Showtime), George R. Kernodle Playwriting Competition

  • FINALIST - Key West Theater Festival

GOIN' ROUND ON ROCK SOLID GROUND

  • FINALIST - Actor's Theater of Louisville

UNFAMILIAR FACES

  • FINALIST - Actor's Theater of Louisville

TOURISTS OF THE MINDFIELD

  • SEMI-FINALIST - Weissberger contest / New Dramatists

 

PRODUCTIONS

NOBODY'S FLOOD

  • Bloomington Playwrights Project

SPILT MILK

  • Theater 40/Beverly Hills Rep., West Bank Cafe, Circle Rep Lab

  • Samuel French One-Act Festival, Emerging Artists Theater Company, New York

GOIN' ROUND ON ROCK SOLID GROUND

  • Circle Rep Lab, West Bank Cafe Theater

TOURISTS OF THE MINDFIELD

  • West Bank Cafe Theater, Playwrights Horizons (Second Stage)

GOD IN BED

  • Lab Theater Company, West Bank Cafe Theater

DIRTY PRAYERS

  • West Bank Cafe Theater

THE DANGER OF STRANGERS

  • West Bank Cafe Theater, starring James Gandolphini; Circle Rep Lab, Pittsburgh New Works Festival

ONCE IN A BLUE MOON

  • Circle Rep Lab, HERE, Turnip Festival

TOXIC REDEMPTION

  • Primary Stages (Planet Earth Festival - reading)

COULDA, WOULDA, SHOULDA

  • Primary Stages (Legacy Project), Turnip Festival, West Bank Cafe Theater

UNFAMILIAR FACES

  • Primary Stages (The New York Project - reading), West Bank Cafe, Circle-in-the-Square (downtown)

FIFTY, WITH MICKEY

  • Primary Stages (The American Myth Project - reading), West Bank Cafe Theater

THE PAIN IN THE POETRY

  • West Bank Cafe Downstairs Theater, The Turnip Festival

SOLACE

  • John Drew Theater (Guild Hall, East Hampton) - Staged reading

  • Circle East Theater Company - Workshop Production, New York City

  • Productions in Munich, Berlin, and Amsterdam

 

THEATER PRODUCTIONS OF 
ORIGINAL ALTERMAN MONOLOGUES

 

STREET TALK

  • An evening of monologues from Alterman's book, "Street Talk, Original Monologues for Actors."  West Coast Ensemble, Los Angeles, KD Studio Theater

WE, THE PEOPLE, A CONFESSION

  • Alterman and Eric Bogosian monologues.  The Poet's Loft, Boiler Room Productions

ALTERMAN'S MONOLOGUES

  • From Alterman's books "Two Minutes and Under" and "Street Talk."  Rhinebeck Theater Society Readers Theater

MONOLOGUES FOR THE AIDS EPIDEMIC...LIVES OF AN EPIDEMIC

  • A.I.D.S. (Artists Incorporating Disease Sanity).  Theater Company, Desert Imax Theater

FILM OPTIONS

LIKE FAMILY (screen rights only)

  • Red Eye Pictures (wrote screenplay based on Alterman play)

THE PECKING ORDER

  • Red Eye Productions (wrote screenplay based on Alterman play)

 

SCRIPT DOCTOR

PAVILION OF MELANCHOLY

  • DEA Film Titani / Company (Stuttgart, Germany) Albanian

 

TEACHING / MASTER CLASSES

  • The Governors School for the Arts (Old Dominion University)

  • Edward Albee Theater Conference, Valdez, Alaska

  • The School for Film and Television

  • Southampton College

  • Western Connecticut State College

  • Star Map School of Acting

  • The Dramatists Guild

  • The Learning Annex

  • The Seminar Center

  • The Screen Actors Guild

  • Boston Public Schools

  • Talent Cast NYC

 

TRAINING & AFFILIATIONS

Training

  • Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London

  • Emerson College, B.S. in Theater

  • New Dramatists (Playwriting)

  • HB Studio (Advanced Playwriting)

Affiliations

  • Circle Rep Theater Company

  • Alice's 4th Floor

  • Circle East Theater Company

  • Emerging Artists Theater Company

  • 42nd Street Workshop

  • Dramatists Guild

  • Author's Guild

 

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