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    Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again
    Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again
    Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again
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    Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again

    By Susan Beth Lehman

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    Despite the increasing popularity of academic filmmaking programs in the United States, some of contemporary America’s most exciting film directors have emerged from the theater world.  Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again features a series of interviews with directors who did just that, transitioning from work on stage productions to work in television and on full-length features.
     
    Taken together, these interviews demonstrate the myriad ways in which a theater background can engender innovative and stimulating work in film. As unique and idiosyncratic as the personalities they feature, the directors’ conversations with Susan Lehman range over a vast field of topics. Each one traces its subject’s personal artistic journey and explores how he or she handled the challenge of moving from stage to screen. Combined with a foreword by Emmy award–winning screenwriter Steve Brown, the directors’ collective knowledge and experience will be invaluable to scholars, aspiring filmmakers, theater aficionados, and film enthusiasts.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIntellect Books
    Release dateJan 28, 2013
    ISBN9781841507828
    Directors: From Stage to Screen and Back Again
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    Susan Beth Lehman

     Susan Beth Lehman is an actor, director, and screenwriter, is assistant professor of TV and film at DeSales University in Pennsylvania.

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      Directors - Susan Beth Lehman

      Chapter 1

      Paul Aaron, August 2010

      The secret to directing is to give a great dinner party.

      Paul Aaron believes that creating a great ensemble is the key to being a successful director.

      Aaron grew up in Hoosick Falls in the 1950s, the prototype setting for Thornton Wilder’s classic American play Our Town. Aaron graduated as a Drama Fellow from Bennington College in the mid-1960s. Shortly thereafter, he was the Casting and New Programs Director at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. There, he founded an actor’s workshop and directed several plays, including a critically acclaimed production of The Threepenny Opera.

      Upon returning to New York, his directing career was firmly established with his production of the national tour of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Academy Award winner Kim Hunter. Off Broadway, he directed the rock musical Salvation in 1969, starring then-unknown actors Barry Bostwick, Joe Morton and Bette Midler. In 1974 Variety called his direction of Ugo Betti’s drama The Burnt Flower Bed … nothing less than masterful. His directorial debut on Broadway was Paris is Out in 1970.

      In 1977 he was awarded the Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Award as Best Director for Paddy Chayefsky’s play The Tenth Man, starring Richard Dreyfuss. His film career followed with A Different Story in 1978, the first Hollywood film to depict gay people as positive protagonists.

      His follow-up feature was the action film A Force of One in 1979, staring Chuck Norris and Jennifer O’Neill, with a screenplay by Academy Award winner, Ernest Tidyman.

      Aaron entered television in 1979, helming the Emmy Award-winning NBC Special Event of William Gibson’s classic The Miracle Worker. His work has garnered the Christopher Award, Director’s Guild and Golden Globe award nominations and the Director’s prize from the Monte Carlo Film

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