Glenn Alterman

GLENN ALTERMAN
Glenn Alterman is a multi-award-winning playwright, the author of thirty-one theater related books (including eleven books of original monologues). Nearly all of his books have gone on to multiple printings. He is also a screen writer, an actor, and a highly respected monologue/audition acting coach. He is listed in RecordSetter.com (and soon the Guinness Book of World Records) for THE AUTHOR OF THE MOST PUBLISHED ORIGINAL MONOLOGUES FOR ACTORS
His books include: The Best Monologues For All Auditions (And How To Prepare For Them!) Monologues For Every Audition, The Perfect Audition Monologue, Glenn Alterman’s Secrets To Successful Cold Readings, Sixty Seconds To Shine—101 One Minute Original Monologues, Creating Your Own Monologue (and Volumes 2 and 3), Promoting Your Acting Career, Two Minutes and Under (Original Monologues for Actors, Volumes 1, 2, and 3), Street Talk (Original Character Monologues for Actors), 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, Monologues of the Stars, and Two Minute Monologues. Two Minutes and Under, Street Talk, and Uptown were the number one best-selling books of original monologues in the country, and along with Creating Your Own Monologue, The Job Book, and Two Minutes and Under, and Two Minutes and Under, Volume 2 and 3 were all “Featured Selections” in the Doubleday Book Club (Fireside Theater and Stage and Screen Division”).
As a playwright, Mr. Alterman is the recipient of the first Julio T. Nunez Artist’s Grant, The Arts and Letters Award in Drama, a Jerry Kaufman recipient, and has won over 50 playwriting awards
His plays and monologues have been published in dozens of “Best Play” and “Best Monologue” anthologies including many with Smith and Kraus. His play Ditmas, was published in their Best 10-Minute Plays of 2017. Time Wounds All Heels was in The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2016, Second Tiers was published in The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2012, After was published in The Best 10-Minute Plays of 2011, The Pain in the Poetry was published in 2009 The Best Ten-Minute Plays For 2 or More Actors.
Five of his plays have been finalists at the Actors Theater of Louisville’s Humana Festival.
Mr. Alterman’s one act play, The Danger of Strangers, which originally starred James Gandolfini and Susan Aston, and has had over forty productions, was recently optioned by Double J Productions, to be made into a full length feature, with Alterman writing the screenplay
His plays, Like Family and The Pecking Order, were optioned by Red Eye Films (with Alterman writing the screenplay).
His play, Solace, was produced off-Broadway by the Circle East Theater Company (formerly Circle Rep Theater Company). Nobody’s Flood won the 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, used in college theater departments all over the country. There have been dozens of productions in the U.S. and Europe.
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, Jennifer Holliday, Kelsey Grammer, Susan Sarandon, Marlo Thomas, and Sandy Duncan, among others.
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.
Spilt Milk received its premiere at the Beverly Hills Rep/Theater 40 in Los Angeles. The Danger of Strangers won Honorable Mention in the Deep South Writers Conference Competition, was a finalist in the George R. Kernodle Contest and Showtimes contest, was selected to be in the Pittsburgh New Works Festival and has had over 35 productions, including at Circle Rep Lab and the West Bank Downstairs Theater Bar (starring James Gandolfini),. There have been many productions of his original monologues plays, God In Bed, Tourists of the Mindfield, and Opened Window Closed Doors, 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, Circle Rep, 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 “The Perfect Audition Monologue” 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, and at many acting schools and colleges all over the country and in Europe.
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 first runner up 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 new plays, screenplays, acting in TV, film and commercials, and coaching actors.
On the Web, he can be reached at www.Glennalterman.com for coaching and lectures and at www.glennaltermanplaywright.com for his literary accomplishments.