Guy Zimmerman is the Artistic Director of Padua Playwrights. Since 2001, he has staged award-winning productions of new plays by numerous contemporary playwrights (including John Steppling's Dog Mouth) in Los Angeles and New York. He also serves as Supervising Editor of Padua Press, publishing anthologies of new work that are distributed nationally through TCG. Zimmerman studied poetry with Katha Pollit, Nicholas Christopher and Thomas Lux. His own plays include La Clarita, Hide, Vagrant and The Inside Job.
We're happy to report that Guy is now trading views with John Steppling on the theater and its myriad social ramifications at a new special Cyrano blog dedicated to the intersection of stage, politics and culture, along with fellow wordplayers Patrice Greanville and Phil Rockstroh. Check and be sure to join this lively dialog at https://bestcyrano.org/voxpop . A treat for hard core enthusiasts of the limelights and related arts. Theater 101 recommended but not required.
STATE OF THE THEATRE PART TWO A dialogue between John Steppling and Guy Zimmerman. How do audiences today look at themselves? Is that even a fair question, I wonder. What do younger writers think about theatre? Do they think about it? I suspect one has to address, when speaking about this, the techno-culture and the effects of mass media ( a term we should analyze a bit more) and marketing...[read more]
STATE OF THE THEATRE PART ONE A dialogue between John Steppling and Guy Zimmerman. How do audiences today look at themselves? Is that even a fair question, I wonder. What do younger writers think about theatre? Do they think about it? I suspect one has to address, when speaking about this, the techno-culture and the effects of mass media ( a term we should analyze a bit more) and marketing...[read more]
