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David Scott Milton

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Born

Pittsburgh, PA, The United States

Website

http://www.dsmilton.com

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Fiction, Crime, Ebooks

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David Scott Milton was an early member of the avant-garde Theater Genesis, along with Sam Shepard, Leonard Melfi and Murray Mednick. He has had more than a dozen plays performed Off Off Broadway including "The Interrogation Room", "Halloween Mask", "The Metaphysical Cop", and "Scraping Bottom". "Scraping Bottom", under the title of "Born to Win", became the Czech director Ivan Passer's first American film, and starred George Segal, Karen Black and Paula Prentiss. Other plays were "Duet for Solo Voice" and "Bread" at the American Place Theater and a revised version of "Duet for Solo Voice", re-titled "Duet", on Broadway with Ben Gazzara. [Mr.Gazzara's performance earned him a Tony nomination.] He has had six novels published: "The Quarterbac David Scott Milton was an early member of the avant-garde Theater Genesis, along with Sam Shepard, Leonard Melfi and Murray Mednick. He has had more than a dozen plays performed Off Off Broadway including "The Interrogation Room", "Halloween Mask", "The Metaphysical Cop", and "Scraping Bottom". "Scraping Bottom", under the title of "Born to Win", became the Czech director Ivan Passer's first American film, and starred George Segal, Karen Black and Paula Prentiss. Other plays were "Duet for Solo Voice" and "Bread" at the American Place Theater and a revised version of "Duet for Solo Voice", re-titled "Duet", on Broadway with Ben Gazzara. [Mr.Gazzara's performance earned him a Tony nomination.] He has had six novels published: "The Quarterback" (Dell), "Paradise Road" (Atheneum), "Kabbalah" (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich), "Skyline" (Putnam's), “The Fat Lady Sings,” and “Iron City.” "Paradise Road" was given the Mark Twain Journal award "for significant contribution to American literature." He has worked extensively as a screenwriter with directors Peter Bogdanovich, Mark Rydell, Sidney Pollack, Dick Richards, Irv Kershner, Milos Forman, John Cassavetes, and others. For more than thirty years, he taught graduate playwriting and screenwriting at the University of Southern California; conducted screenwriting seminars at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin and the Duke University Film and Television Program. He is a member of the advisory board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation along with, among others, David Hockney, Michael York, John Schlesinger, and Armistead Maupin. For fifteen years he ran a writers' workshop on the Maximum Security Yard of the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi where his class consisted of a dozen murderers. In 2007, a one-man show, “Murderers Are My Life”, based on his prison experiences, was presented at The Two Roads Theater in Studio City, CA. It received a nomination as best one-man show by the Theater League of Los Angeles. A video of this show can be downloaded at www.dsmilton.com.
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Slip Fights and the Dozens

David Scott Milton is an American author, playwright, screenwriter, and actor.

Occasionally, as someone with too much time on his hands, I go on eccentric chases down obscure rabbit holes. I’ve just been on one such adventure. It started with a …

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	Iron City 3.28 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kabbalah 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fat Lady Sings 2.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE QUARTERBACK 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Duet: A Tragicomedy In One Act 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Paradise Road 2.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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