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GLENN ALTERMAN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Glenn Alterman is the author of the Perfect audition Monologue, Two Minutes and Under, Sixty Seconds To Shine- 101 Original One Minute Monologues, Street Talk (Original Character Monologues for actors), Uptown, Two Minutes and Under- (and Volumes 2 and 3), the Job Book- One Hundred acting Jobs For actors, the Job Book 2- One Hundred Day Jobs For actors, What To Give Your agent For Christmas, Two Minute Monologs, Promoting Your acting Career, Creating Your Own Monologue, and an actor's Guide-- Making It In New York. Two Minutes and Under, Street Talk, Uptown, Creating Your Own Monologue, One Hundred acting Jobs For actors, the Job Book 2, and an actor's Guide- Making It In New York City were all "Featured Selections" in the Doubleday Book Club (Fireside Theater and Stage and Screen Division"). Most of his published works have gone on to multiple printings. His plays Like Family and the Pecking Order were optioned by Red eye Films (with alterman writing the screenplay). His play, Solace, was produced off-Broadway by Circle east Theater Company, and presently has several European productions. Solace was recently optioned for European TV. Nobody's Flood won the Bloomington National Playwriting Competition as well as being a finalist in the Key West Playwriting Competition. Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda won the Three Genres Playwriting Competition, twice, (including publication of the play in two separate editions of the Prentice Hall college textbook). It has received several productions around the country. the Pain In the Poetry was recently published in Smith and Kraus' the BeST 10- MINUTe Plays For 2 or More actors. He wrote the book for Heartstrings- the National Tour (commissioned by the Design Industries Foundation For aids), a thirty-five city tour that starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Ron Silver, Christopher Reeve, Susan Sarandon, Marlo Thomas and SAndy Duncan (among others). Other plays include Kiss Me When It's Over (commissioned by e. Weissman Productions) starring and directed by andre DeShields, Tourists of the Mindfield (finalist in the L. arnold Weissberger Playwriting Competition at New Dramatists), and Street Talk/Uptown (based on his monologue books), produced at the West Coast ensemble. Goin' Round On Rock Solid Ground, Unfamiliar Faces, and Words Unspoken were all finalists at the actor's Theater of Louisville. Spilt Milk received its premiere at the Beverly Hills Rep/Theater 40 in Los Angeles and was selected to participate in the Samuel French One-act Festival (twice). It's had over 20 productions. the Danger of Strangers won Honorable Mention in both the Deep South Writers Conference Competition and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, and was a finalist in the George R. Kernodle Contest. there have been over 15 productions including Circle Rep Lab and the West Bank Downstairs Theater Bar (starring the Soprano's James Gandolphini). His plays have been performed at Primary Stages, Circle in the Square Downtown, the Turnip Festival, HeRe, LaMama, at the Duplex, Playwrights Horizons, as well as at many other Theaters around the country. Glenn has lectured and taught at such diverse places as the Edward albee Theater Conference (Valdez, alaska), Southampton College, Governors School For the Arts (Old Dominion University), the School For Film and Television, Western Connecticut State College, Broadway artists alliance, the School For Professional actors, Star Map acting School of Long Island, the Dramatists Guild, the Learning Annex, the Screen actors Guild, the Seminar Center, in the Boston Public School System, as well as at many acting schools and colleges all over the country. He presently lives in New York City where he coaches actors, writes plays, books and screenplays, and acts in TV commercials and film. Glenn Alterman is now listed with the Guinness Book of World Records as the author of the most published original monologues" (10 books of original monologues). He is also listed with recordsetter.com in the same category. To celebrate, The Drama Book Shop in New York City, has honored him with an in-store display of his original monologue books and the listings certificates (Oct 2013).

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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        After         Alfred         And Then         Benchmarks         Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda         Danger Of Strangers         Ditmas         God In Bed         Goin' Round on Rock Solid Ground         Kindness of Enemies, The         Little Love Goes a Long Way, A         Nobody's Flood         Pain In the Poetry, The         Sealing Of Ceil, The         Second Tiers         Sorry Doesn't Have to Mean Good Bye-Bye         Steven: from God In Bed         Time Wounds All Heels         Tourists of the Minefield         Unfamiliar Faces         Words Unspoken         Yours and Mine