Background Guy

by J. Richard Singleton

LIVE YOUR LIFE IN THE FOREGROUND!!!Soon after high school, writer J. Richard Singleton worked as a film/television extra and paid audience member. In this humorous essay taking the reader behind the scenes of television and film production, he recounts how he realized that there really are small roles in Hollywood--along the way encountering strange characters and some odd interactions with celebrities.

14 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 24, 2013

About the author

Novelist, essayist, screenwriter, philosopher, riverboat gambler, typer of biographies, J. Richard Singleton has established himself as one of the great thinkers of his time. (Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.) He was a dual major in college, earning degrees in both political science and English, where he also wrote for his college newspaper. In high school, he wrote a little screenplay, "Thugs," which was recently declared a finalist in both the WriteMovies.com screenwriting contest and the American Accolades screenwriting contest. When he isn't writing screenplays, novels and essays, he enjoys drinking whiskey and writing to celebrities to tell them what they're doing wrong in their careers.