Paul Rudnick
Author of The New Century.
Playwright Paul Rudnick discusses his evening of one-act plays, The New Century, currently playing at Lincoln Center Theatre, including how he came to combine characters originally written for separate plays into a single work and how he hopes they play against their stereotypes; how he announced his plans to be a playwright to his parents as a young child, before he’d even seen a play; the senior class project that he threw together at the last minute only to see it swiftly produced as a one-night-only event at Yale; the famously troubled Broadway run of I Hate Hamlet; the difficulty he experienced trying to get Jeffrey, a comedy set in the era of AIDS, produced; and the story behind his longest-running character, film critic Libby Gelman-Waxner of Premiere magazine.
Original airdate – April 18, 2008.
Running time – 58:39.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Paul Rudnick program page.
You can also download directly the Paul Rudnick program (mp3).
Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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