Glenn Alterman

Glenn Alterman is a multi-award winning playwright, the author of 31 theater related books (including 10 books of original monologues), listed in RecordSetter.com and soon, the Guinness Book of World Records (Author of "Most Published Original Monologues")a screen writer, actor, and a highly respected monologue/audition acting coach ("Best Monologue Audition Coach"- Backstage Magazine and Theater Resource Magazine- Glennalterman.com). He was born in Brooklyn, New York.

His books include: The Best Monologues For All Auditions (And How to Prepare For Them) Street Talk, Original Monologues For Actors, An Actors Guide- Making It In New York (and 2nd and upcoming 3rd Editions). The Perfect Audition Monologue, Writing the 10-Minute Play, Glenn Alterman's Secrets To Successful Cold Readings, Sixty Seconds To Shine--101 One Minute Monologues, Creating Your Own Monologue (and the 2nd edition), Promoting Your Acting Career (and the 2nd Edition), Two Minutes and Under (Original Monologues for Actors), Volumes 1, 2, and 3), Uptown (More Original Monologues For Actors), 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, and Two Minute Monologues. Two Minutes and Under, Street Talk, and Uptown were the number one best-selling books of original monologues in their respective years, and, along with Creating Your Own Monologue, Promoting Your Acting Career, The Job Book, The Job Book 2, and Two Minutes and Under, 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.

As a playwright, Mr. Alterman is the recipient of the first Julio T. Nunez Artist's Grant, 2 French Arts Grants, The Arts and Letters Award in Drama, and is a Jerry Kaufman Awards recipient. He's won over 50 national and international playwriting awards. His play The Pain in the Poetry was published in 2009 The Best Ten Minute Plays For 2 or More Actors. "After" was selected to be in "2011- The Best 10-Minute Plays", and "Second Tiers", in "2012- The Best 10-Minute Plays". 13 of his other plays have appeared in "Best Play" anthologies.

Mr. Alterman's plays, Like Family and The Pecking Order, were optioned by Red Eye Films (with Alterman writing the screenplay). The Sealing of Ceil was recently optioned for TV.

His play, Solace, was produced off-Broadway by the Circle East Theater Company (formerly Circle Rep Theater Company). Nobody's Flood won the first Reva Shiner Award (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, two years in a row! The prize included publication of the play in the Prentice Hall textbook, widely used in college theater departments all over the country. To date, it has appeared in several newer editions.

Mr. Alterman wrote the book for Heartstrings: The National Tour (commissioned by DIFFA, the Design Industries Foundation for Aids), a thirty-five city tour that starred Michelle Pfeiffer, Ron Silver, Susan Sarandon, Marlo Thomas, and Sandy Duncan.

Other plays include Kiss Me When It's Over (commissioned by E. Weissman Productions), starring and directed by André De Shields; 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.

Six of his plays were finalists at the Actors Theater of Louisville's playwriting competition. 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. The Danger of Strangers has won many playwriting awards, won Honorable Mention in the Deep South Writers Conference Competition, was a finalist in the George R. Kernodle Contest. It was selected to be in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival and has had over 40 productions, including at Circle Rep Lab, the West Bank Downstairs Theater Bar (starring James Gandolfini), the Emerging Artists Theater Company's one-act marathon, the Vital Theater Company in New York, and, most recently, with the Workshop Theater Company.

There have been many productions of his original monologues play, "God In Bed", both in the United States and in Europe.

Mr. Alterman's work has been performed at Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theater (EST), Circle in the Square Downtown, HERE, LaMaMa, The Workshop Theater Company, in the Turnip Festival, at the Duplex, Playwrights Horizons, at several theaters on Theater Row in New York, as well as at many theaters around the country and throughout Europe.

Mr. Alterman has been a guest artist and given master classes and seminars on "Monologues" and "The Business of Acting" at such diverse places as the Governor's School for the Arts in Norfolk, Virginia, the Edward Albee Theater Conference (Valdez, Alaska), Southampton College, Western Connecticut State College, Broadway Artists Alliance, The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), the Dramatists Guild, the Learning Annex, the Screen Actors Guild, the Seminar Center, in the Boston Public School System, and at many acting schools and colleges all over the country. He is a member of the Actors Studio Playwrights Unit and The Dramatists Guild.

In 1993, Mr. Alterman created the Glenn Alterman Studios, where actors receive monologue/audition coaching, as well as career preparation. He was named "Best Monologue/Audition Coach in the Tri-State Area" by Theater Resources Magazine and as "The Best Private Acting Coach In New York", by the readers of Back Stage.

He presently lives in New York City, where he's working on several plays, works on TV commercials, and coaches actors.

On the Web, he can be reached at www.Glennaltermanplaywright.com and www.glennalterman.com.