Glenn Alterman

Playwright

Author of
The Most Published Original Monologues For Actors

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"Alterman is doing in dramatic terms, what Pablo Picasso did in art"

--Stephen Minot, Editor, Three Genres, The Writing of Literary Prose, Poetry and Plays

Glenn Alterman’s plays have been performed in over 200 venues in over 30 states, throughout Europe, and in Asia. New York theaters that have produced his plays include Primary Stages, Samuel French OOB Play Festival, HERE Theater, American Renaissance Theater, Urban Stages, John Drew Theater, Artistic New Directions, Circle Rep Theater, Nylon Fusion Theater, New Circle Theater Company, Gallery Players, Turnip Theater, Polaris North Theater, T. Schrieber Studio, The Workshop Theater Company, Emerging Artists Theater Company, The Village Playwrights, Circle East Theater Company, Ego Actus Theater Company, and The West Bank Café Theater among others.

Other Theaters that have produced his plays include Pittsburgh Rep, Short + Sweet Sydney, Bloomington Playwrights Theater Project, Deep South Writers Conference, Actors Collaborative Toledo ACT, Theater 40 (Beverly Hill Rep), Stray Kats Theater Company, Phoenix Theater, Riverside Theater, Howmet Playhouse/The Playhouse at White Lake, South Street Players, Parrish Players, Orange County (Sugar Loaf Performing Arts Center), Cider Hill Playhouse, Playa de Luna, Nantucket Short Play Festival, West Coast Ensemble, among others

Many of his 31 theater related and original monologue books are published by Smith and Kraus Publishers. Other Alterman books and plays are published by Applause Publishing, Playscripts, Heuer Publishing, Allworth Press, Prentice Hall, Pioneer Publishing, Meriwether, and JAC Publications.

Many of his short plays and monologues are published in a number of Smith and Kraus “10-Minute Plays”, and “Men’s” and “Women’s” Monologue Anthologies.

Commissions include D.I.F.F.A. (Design Industries Foundation for AIDS) For Heartrstrings, and E. Weissman Productions for the book for the musical, Kiss Me When It’s Over (that starred, was directed by Andre DeShields).

He is a double French Arts Grant recipient, the winner of the Arts and Letters

Award In Drama, a Jerry Kaufman Award recipient, a 4 time Heideman Award

finalist, among many other playwriting awards.

His play Like Family was optioned by Red Eye Films. His play The Danger of

Strangers is presently being filmed by Native Wind Media/Double J Productions.

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To learn about Glenn's coaching and seminars click here.

Milestones

WINNER: RECORD-SETTER.COM “Author- Most Published Original Monologues for Actors” (presently 1002 monologues)

A Doubt My Play opens at BARRINGTON STAGE THEATRE COMPANY, directed by Mathew Penn February 15- 27

UNHEARD opens at Lavonia Community Theatre, February 16- March 4th

WOMEN AT A WINDOW, MEN ON A BENCH (Three thrillers) Three one-act plays. Coming Soon from Next Stage Press

GAYS Just published by Next Stage Press.( An evening comprised of thematically connected one act plays and monologues)

Presently working on a new book of monologues, WINNING MONOLOGUES for Allworth

Press/Skyhorse Publishing

UNHEARD and AFTER, were both selected by the Actors Theater of Santa Cruz to be part of their 8 tens @ 8 short play festival/ January 2022. The theater has the oldest short play festival in the country. This festival will be their reopening production after a 2 year shut down

BENCHMARKS was selected by Heuer Publishers as the PUBLISHERS PICK!

DITMAS is on track to be the MOST PRODUCED 10-MINUTE PLAY IN THE WORLD. There have been over twenty five productions already and

there are over 50 productions scheduled for 2018 in the U.S., Spain, Germany, and Israel.

RECIPIENT Of 2021 FRENCH ARTS GRANT

The grant is “ Pour développer une collection de courtes pièces de theater’ (To develop a collection of short plays).

JERRY KAUMAN AWARD RECIPIENT For SUCH SECRETS, 3 SHORT PLAYS FOR THEATER

….Awarded on the basis of excellence in writing full-length work or shorter pieces for the theater. ….Funds that accompany the awards are to be used by the playwright to further his or her artistic endeavors.

The main judge, ARTHUR GIRON (Former Head of the Graduate Playwriting program/ Carnegie Mellon, founding member of EST)-- “Mr. Alterman, is a playwright, who, in the tradition of Tennessee Williams and William Inge, has the ability to reveal great truths in a deep, quiet voice”.
The other judges: “Glenn Alterman’s works will grab your attention, please your senses, and delight your soul” “Multi dimensional characters in fascinating situations. Glenn Alterman has a knack for telling a story in very subtle ways; his lovely plays unfold in an organic, natural manner”.

Author, thirty oneTheater Related Books (including 12 Books of Original Monologues Books.) Click here

Plays and Monologues Published in THRTY-ONE "Best of the Year Anthologies

Awarded Alfred T. Nunez Arts Grant For Playwriting

Winner, Arts and Letters Award in Drama (For The Sealing Of Ceil)

Winner, Reva Shiner Award, Bloomington Playwrights Project (For Nobody’s Flood)

Winner, The Three Genres Playwriting Award (twice) (For Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda). Includes cash prize, and publication (in several editions) of the widely used college textbook, “The Three Genres, The Writing Of Poetry, Fiction, and Drama” . The play was used as the “model” of the 10-minute play

Winner "Best Play" (For Second Tiers)- After Folsom Short Play Festival, Berlin, Germany

Winner of "Premio - Primer Premio Del Juez"-JUDGES AWARD FIRST PRIZE (for Time Wounds All Heels), in the Like Family (Al Igual Que La Familia) short play Festival in Barcelona, Spain.

Publication, "Writing the 10-Minute Play". Published by Hal Leonard Corporation (Applause). Wrote the book on how to write 10-minute plays. One of the most widely used college theater textbooks on writing 10-minute plays.

Playwright Mentor (Instructor/Dramaturg) , Last Frontier Playwrights Conference, (called Edward Albee Theater Conference then), Valdez, Alaska

Co-Chair of the Miramax Playwrights Group

Winner-- of over 60 national and international playwriting competitions.

Six Time Finalist- Actors Theater of Louisville National 10-Minute Play Contest

Awards & More...

Commisions

News and Events

News & Events

My play A DOUBT MY PLAY recently opened at Barrington Stage Theatre company. It was directly by Mathew Penn, and received wonderful reviews:

“The show closes with a play that, as former president of The Berkshire Writers Room, struck very close home for me. It is “A Doubt My Play” by Glenn Alterman, in which a playwright is exposing his new work to a “jury” of his peers. I loved the piece very much.” ---Peter J. Bergman, theberkshireedge.com

My play Making Merry Bi The Ferry was just published in Masque and Spectacle literary journal

Chris Martin and Aiden Butler will open in a production of my play UNHEARD on February 28, directed by Joe Johnston. At the Livonia Community Theatre

My play DITMAS was one of 5 plays that were filmed for the TRU "VIRTUAL" GALA- TRUSPEAK HEAR OUT VOICES 2023

My monologue BART (from my play GOD IN BED) was selected for publication in the upcoming "some scripts" anthology MONOLOGUES BY LGBTQIA+ WRITERS For LGBTQIA+ Actors (July 14th 2023)

My play, BEYOND THE DOOR, has been selected for the 16th Annual Gi60 (GONE IN 60 SECONDS ) INTERNATIONAL ONE-MINUTE THEATRE FESTIVAL

My play, BEYOND THE DOOR has been published in a special anthology entitled SHHH! BREATHE SLOW (Fresh Words, An International, an INTERNATIONAL LITERARY MAGAZINE)

My play LOVE ME, LOVE MY WORK has been selected to be in THE PEND ORIELLE PLAYERS ONE ACT PLAYERS FESTIVAL (opens in August, 2023)

My piece AARON is now published in MINI PLAYS REVIEW, AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SHORT PLAYS (the LOVE issue)

My play, RED BIKE, was selected by New Circle Theatre Company for it Jon Fraser Short Play Festival (The Inferno Project: Anger, Fraud and Treachery)

My one minute monologue "LIL" is now published in the E Edition and paperback edition "Contemporary One Minute Monologues, Volume 1. Here's the E-edition- link- https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/special-anthologies?authuser=0

And here's the paperback edition link

https://www.lulu.com/shop/som/contemporary-one-minute-monologues-volume-1/paperback/product-5kp8yq.html?page=1&pageSize=4

SORRY DOESN'T HAVE TO MEAN GOOD BYE-BYE and FORGETTING TO FORGIVE were both selected for productions by the Gallery Players

LOVE ME, LOVE MY WORK was selected (out of 707 submissions!) to participate in the FUSION Theater Company's SECOND SEVEN'S. The play is now three for three. Also productions at Barrington Stage Theater Company (directed by Julianne Boyd) and Gallery Players.

SUBWAY was selected to be in-18th annual Gi60 (Gone in 60 Seconds) International One Minute Theatre Festival US. (at the Thank Theater, New York

TIME WOUNDS ALL HEALS was selected by The Depot Theatre Company for their New Play Reading Series- January, 2023

LOVE ME, LOVE MY WORK was selected to be part of the Barrington Theater Company's "10X10 Play Festival- (2022)

LOVE ME, LOVE MY WORK was selected by the Gallery Players for a production in their short play festival (2022)

Presently working on a new book of monologues, WINNING MONOLOGUES for Allworth

Press/Skyhorse Publishing

BENCHMARKS was selected by Heuer Publishers as the PUBLISHERS PICK!

TENDER IS THE GYM coming to the American Renaissance Theater (November)

THE PAIN IN THE POETRY coming to the Playhouse at White Lake (MI)

THE PAIN IN THE POETRY coming to Naples Theater

DITMAS and UNHEARD coming to +Santa Cruz Actors Theater 's 8Tens at 10 Festival (Opening their new theater)

My play TALKING TO STRANGERS IN BARS, opens at Gypsy Rep in Florida.

My play, THE PAIN IN THE POETRY, won "Best Play" in the Edgefest festival competition, (Birds House Theater)

My play, NOBODY'S FLOOD will open in open in London (live) at The Gower Players this November.

TWO of my plays, UNHEARD and DITMAS were selected for productions (8 tens@ 8) at Santa Cruz Actors Theater (live!) when the theatre reopens January, 2022

Just signed on with one of my favourite publishers, Allworth Press/Skyhorse Publishers, to write my next book, MONOLOGUES FOR WINNING AUDITIONS. This will be my 31st book/ my 11th book of original monologues and monologues from my published plays. I have a number of successful books with Allworth/Skyhorse including AN ACTORS GUIDE MAKING IT IN NEW YORK CITY (and 2nd and 3rd Editions) and CREATING YOUR OWN MONOLOGUE (and 2nd Edition), among others.

My play UNHEARD was selected by RHINO THEATER in New Jersey, to be in a festival of one acts this summer.

My monologue SOLO, from BAR N(ONE), has been selected to participate in the Talking Horse Productions Playwriting Competition.

My play THE PAIN IN THE POETRY will receive a production this summer in the historic PLAYHOUSE AT WHITE LAKE (MI) this summer. Honored to be in the company of the many top shelf playwrights that have had productions there over the years (since 1915)

TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS will be produced (for online audiences) by the Talisman Theater (England)

A LITTLE LOVE GOES A LONG WAY- my solo piece, which has previously starred Lynn Cohen, Helen Hanft, and Scotty Bloch (among others) will be filmed by Mind The Gap Theater (England) next month.

THE DANGER OF STRANGERS- my play, which originally starred James Gandolfini, is now being made into a move. Filming has recently begun in Farragut, Tennessee (Nativewind Media)

UNHEARD and DITMAS to be produced by Actors Theater of Santa Cruz

TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS to be filmed by Talisman Company (England)

NOBODY'S FLOOD, BENCHMARKS, DITMAS, SUNSET AT SANTORINI, UNHEARD, AFTER, SPILT MILK, HOME 3- Published by HEUER PUBLISHERS.

A DOUBT MY PLAY, TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS (aka Nowhere Man)- both published by SMITH SCRIPTS

After over 40 productions in the U.S. and Europe, and being included in a Smith and Kraus "Best" anthology, my play DITMAS is now published by HEUER Publishing

My plays SUNSET AT SANTORINI and NOBODY'S FLOOD (Reva Shiner winner) are now published/licensed by HEUER PUBLISHING.

Delighted and honored to be invited by EMMY, OLIVIER, and THREE time TONY AWARD WINNING PRODUCER, JIM KIERSTEAD (Hadestown, Kinky Boots, The Inheritance - and many other Broadway plays), to participate in the launch of something new and very exciting- BROADWAY VIRTUAL (along with CHRISTIAN BORLE, JULIE TAYLOR, TARA RUBIN, DANNY BURSTEIN, ANDRE DeSHIELDS, among others. I did a videotaped a MASTER CLASS now airing..

My play BENCHMARKS was published by HEUER PUBLISHING.

My play YOURS AND MINE is a winner in the BIRDHOUSE THEATRE -EDGEFEST 2020 Festival. My play UNHEARD was a runner up

"BART", a monologue from my play BAR N(ONE) was videotaped to be part of the Homebound series by the British Theater Company, Mind the Gap. It is now available for viewing.

My play UNHEARD will be published/licensed by HEUER publishing later this year.

My monologue LILY from my play BAR N(ONE) was chosen to be in THE BEST WOMENS MONOLOGUES, 2021 (APPLAUSE)

My book of original monologues and monologues from my plays, WINNING MONOLOGUES IN TODAY'S WORLD (AND HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE) 2020 will published in July by Smith and Kraus Publishers

My play, THE DANGER OF STRANGERS, which originally starred James Gandolfini and Susan Aston, and has received over FORTY productions- was optioned by DOUBLE J PRODUCTIONS, to be made into a fiull length feature film. I will be receiving "Writer" credit.

I have three monologues from different plays that have been videotaped by Actors Collective Toledo, now on U-Tube.

My play YOURS AND MINE (AKA THE PAIN IN THE POETRY) received a production by the PARISH PLAYERS (Thetford, Vermont)- November 7-17thg

My book, AN ACTOR'S GUIDE-MAKING IT IN NEW YORK CITY, 3rd EDITION (Allworth, Skyhorse publications) is now published.

My monologue ALICE (from Tourists of the Mindfield) will be published in the upcoming Applause publication, THE BEST WOMEN'S MONOLOGUES OF 2019)

YOURS AND MINE, Stray Kats Theater Company, June 7-9, Newton, Connecticut

SOMETHING PRIVATE (Mary Baldwin Theatre), May 8-11, Staunton, Virginia

TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS in Luna Dramatique festival at Art Sake Studios in Orlando Florida, April 19th, 20th, 26th and 27th.

My monologue CEIL to be in 100 MONOLOGUES FROM NEW PLAYS - Women (Applause)

My play BENCHMARKS will be part of Winding Road Theater Ensembles short play festival April 25th through May 5th

Received A 2019 FRENCH ARTS AWARD to further develop my short plays in my new collection, A BENCH, A TABLE and TWO CHAIRS. All of the plays in the collection received previous productions, won awards and appeared "BEST SHORT PLAYS" anthologies.

THREE MONOLOGUES (two from my play AFTER, one from NOBODY'S FLOOD, now published in CONTEMPORARY MONOLOGUES FOR THE NEW THEATER (Applause Theater and Cinema Books)

THE SEALING OF CEIL, the winner of The Arts an Letters Award In Drama, has been OPTIONED for TV

DITMAS was selected (out of over 500 plays) to be in the Pick of the Vine Festival (LITTLE FISH THEATER COMPANY in California).

DITMAS recently received a production at by NYLON FUSION THEATER COMPANY (New York) play festival.

THE BEST MONOLOGUES FOR ALL AUDITIONS (AND HOW TO PREPARE FOR THEM!) now published --by Smith and Kraus

Interview With The Playbill Collector

Commisioned Productions

HEARTSTRINGS

Commissioned by D.I.F.F.A. (Design Industries Foundation for AIDS) Book for HEARTSTRINGS.
Completed the book for the musical that toured the country (35 cities), cast of 30, including Michelle Pfeiffer, Joel Grey, Marlo Thomas, Barbara Cook, Tommy Tune, Jason Bateman, Stephen Collins, Julie Hagerty, Linda Lavin, Madeline Potter, Ron Silver, Susan Sarandon and Jennifer Holiday

KISS ME WHEN IT'S OVER

Commissioned by E. Weissman Productions to write the Book (Original Monologues) for KISS ME WHEN IT’S OVER, the musical, that starred and was directed by Andre DeShields (Wayne Cilento, choreographer) (LaMama)

Plays