20 Questions with Playwright Jack Rushton!
Another first on the No Outlet Podcast folks! We love performers of all varieties. We also inherently love those that create the content for those performers…without writers, there are no performances. In fact, as the current writers strike shows, not having writers on board can literally stop the show with SNL shutting it down for the rest of the year.
Jack Rushton is the Director of New Play Programs and a Resident Artist at Greenwich Theatre Company, Greenwich, CT. He has spent 15 years collaborating with The Actors Studio of Newburyport, MA, serving on their board, directing and performing in dozens of shows while organizing and producing five National Short Play Festivals, six Collaboration Shows, and three collections of his own work.
His play "George’s Radio" won The Andaluz Award at The Fusion Theater’s in 2017. His short play, "Mistranslations" was a 2019 finalist for The National Playwriting Award, City Theatre-Miami, FL. His work has been produced at venues including: The Huntington Theater, The Boston Center for the Arts, The Boston Playwright’s Theater, The Player’s Theater, The Producer’s Club, The Workshop Theater, LIC Secret Theater, Manhattan Repertory, The Silver Springs Stage Co, The Garfield Center for the Arts, North Park Vaudeville, The Durango Center for the Arts, The Bangor Opera House, The Firehouse Center for the Arts, The Vermont Playwright's Circle, and the list goes on...
Bottom line is that is he is a very well respected and dedicated Playwright and we are extremely happy to have him on the show! We talked about the origin of his love for Theatre, the firs play he ever saw that really moved him, the stark reality of interdimensional beings living among us, his deserted island play (and movie), the wonders of the Chocolate Church, the rise and fall of Maine, we turn him on to Black Mirror, he graciously describes his writing process, why Playwrighting is his number 1, the many benefits of Improv, the best play ever adapted to a movie, the similarities between sales and writing and his thoughts on artificial intelligence creeping into the content creation realm. He also provides us with some updates of where to see his newest work (live and on YouTube!) so take a listen and go check it out! Thank you for coming on the show and we hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did!
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