re: #805 buzzsawmonkey

Well-paid playwright? Start trashing the US and capitalism in a big way, and shovel in four-letter words aplenty.

Once you’ve made your pile, you—like David Mamet—can recant your previously-expressed views, to a degree.

I’ve been writing for the stage since 1978, but it’s only been the last 10 years that I managed to place myself in some position of name recognition, that being Colorado.

Actually “Rose Garden” sat in the hands of Dramatic Publishing in NYC for two years, they wanted to publish it, but there was one lousy sentence in my rights agreement with William Morris that Dramatic didn’t like. Morris agency wouldn’t change it, so after everyone sitting on it for two years, that prospect is dead.

It was written and produced 4 years ago, and that adventure put it in limbo for 2 of those years. I’m gonna be dead before one of my works get’s through all the hoops that the publishing business wants to put me through.

I thin they are all waiting until I die, and then scarf up the rights for pennies on the dollar.