Howard A. Rodman News

Has a new one-act play

Writing Division professor Howard A. Rodman has been invited Philadelphia's NOIRCON conference to screen "Professional Man," an episode of the Showtime anthology Fallen Angels written by Rodman and directed by Steven Soderbergh. 

Rodman will then join a panel, moderated by Mike White, on the screen and television adaptations of the work of noir novelist David Goodis.  In Rodman's new one-act play, “How the Writers Strike Ended,'' an aging Hollywood mogul tells another studio executive why producers took a hard line during the writers strike.  “We, all of us, have to eat our babies,'' he says.  Howard said he wasn’t kidding when he wrote that line.   Studio bosses “just wanted to prove they were tough,'' he said in an interview. “That's what this was about.'' 

The play made its public debut with a March 8 reading at the Lyric Theater and the readers included Keith Carradine, Ralph Waite and Jon Abrahams.  “How the Writers Strike Ended'' was one of seven works presented over two days by Writers Theater LA to raise money for stagehands,  electricians and other non-writers who were put out of work by the  strike.  Proceeds are administered by the Writers Guild of America.

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