Paul Rudnick
Paul M. Rudnick (born December 29, 1957) is an American playwright, screenwriter and novelist. His plays include I Hate Hamlet, Jeffrey, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla and The New Century. He also wrote for Premiere magazine under the pseudonym Libby Gelman-Waxner, and for Spy.
Rudnick grew up in Piscataway Township, New Jersey.[1] He is Jewish and openly gay.[2]
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[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Addams Family Values | writer |
| 1995 | Jeffrey | screenplay |
| 1997 | In & Out | writer |
| 2000 | Isn't She Great | screenplay |
| 2003 | Marci X | writer |
| 2004 | The Stepford Wives | screenplay |
Rudnick also wrote the initial drafts for the film Sister Act. However, he left the project before completion, distancing himself from the final product by choosing the pseudonym "Joseph Howard" for the writing credit.[3]
[edit] Novels
The gay farce Social Disease (1986), reminiscent of the early Evelyn Waugh of Vile Bodies, and I'll Take It (1990) a tale of Jewish life in America. Extasy Club (1997).
[edit] References
- ^ Bruni, Frank (September 11, 1997), "AT HOME WITH: Paul Rudnick", The New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E0D81539F932A2575AC0A961958260, retrieved 2007-10-28
- ^ Gross, Larry P.; Woods, James D. (1999), The Columbia Reader on Lesbians and Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics, Columbia University Press, p. 328, ISBN 0231104472
- ^ Rudnick, Paul (July 20, 2009), "Fun with Nuns", The New Yorker: 37–41, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/07/20/090720fa_fact_rudnick
[edit] External links
- Paul Rudnick at the Internet Movie Database
- Paul Rudnick at the Internet Broadway Database
- New Plays And Playwrights - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org January 2004
- Paul Rudnick's office, 2007
