Professional/Personal Overview
about.me/randygener
Work Info
Expertise
Content Editor (online)
12 Years
Editor
11 Years
Writer
21 Years
Specialty
Arts & Humanities
22 Years
Entertainment
20 Years
International
14 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
20 Years
Media Client List (# assignments
last 2 yrs)
New York Daily News (11+), American Theatre magazine (11+), The Star Ledger (11+), Time Out New York (11+), Village Voice Media (11+), New York Times (6-10), New York Magazine (3-5), International Herald Tribune (3-5), Expressen (Sweden) (3-5)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Denver Center Theater Company (11+), Film Society of Lincoln Center (11+), Roundabout Theatre Company (11+), Hallmark (1-2)
Other Work History
Content Producer and Senior Journalist, BroadwayOnline.com, Broadway Television Network, New York, NY, 1999 2001
Computer Skills
Word | Excel | PowerPoint | Outlook | Skype | HTML | Windows XP | Vista | OS 10 | WordPress | Blogspot
Technical Skills
Photoshop | InDesign | Illustrator | iMovie HD | FinalCut Pro
Equipment
Laptop | Digital Camera | Audio Recorder | Pen | Pencil | Brain | Sense of Humor
Foreign Language Skills
English | Tagalog | Cebuano
Unions
National Writers Union
References
Available upon request
Awards
"The Rube" Deadline Club Award from the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists | 5 Travel Media Awards for Writing Excellence from North American Travel Journalists Association Awards | George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism | NLGJA Journalist of the Year Award
Associations
National Book Critics Circle | Asian American Journalists Association | National SPJ | SPJ Deadline Club | NLGJA | American Theatre Critics Association | International Theatre Critics Association | Drama Desk | Outer Critics Circle | Dance Critics Association
Other
Nieman Seminar for Narrative Editors, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | New York Times Criticism Fellowship at Eugene ONeill Theater Center, Waterford, CT |
Freelancer Availability
I freelance full-time. I live near New York, NY. I am willing to travel anywhere. I have a driver's license.
Work Samples
Writing Samples
(National Public Radio , 2/15/2012)
Based on data the group compiled from the past five theater seasons, Asian-Americans are the only minority group whose share of New York acting roles declined, and they were also the least likely to be selected for roles that would traditionally be played by white actors.
(Critical Stages , 1/1/2012)
Although they are realistic in character detail and plot, Craig Lucas’s fable-like plays almost always depend on the formal magic of inventive artifice and the forceful complications of dark fairy tales.
In the past several years, Lucas has declined to give interviews to the press. This conversat
(American Theatre magazine , 1/1/2012)
On U.S. stages, Israeli and American artists espouse humanism in a world of violence.
In "Momik," the Gesher Theatre of Tel Aviv’s fanciful adaptation of the first section of the Israeli writer David Grossman’s bestselling 1989 novel See Under: LOVE, everyone in Jerusalem refuses to tell Momik wh
(American Theatre magazine , 12/1/2011)
A book review of "Finishing the Hat," the collected lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, published by Knopf.
A lyric stringer from a Broadway musical legend
(Roundabout Theatre Company , 9/1/2009)
Carrie Fisher’s one-woman play, "Wishful
Drinking," is a raw, dishy, caustic memoir. She
got the inspiration to write it after seeing the
solo comic monologues of such actors as John
Leguizamo, Julia Sweeney, and Spalding Gray.
Fisher realized she had plenty of material to
work with
(American Theatre magazine , 9/1/2009)
A travel article based on visits to the Oerol and De Parade festivals in the Netherlands.
This article won a 2009 award for writing excellence from the North American Travel Journalists Association annual award competition
Holland’s Terschelling Oerol Festival and de Parade collaborated to c
(American Theatre magazine , 5/1/2009)
The guerilla artists of Belarus Free Theatre perform underground while arguing openly for regime change.
Belarusians today live in a Russified independent state called Belarus. If your GPS brain-unit simply draws a blank or if you feign recognition but dismiss the place as yet another inconsequen
(New York Times , 9/24/2006)
A New York Times article.
The conventional wisdom about Tennessee Williams, especially among politically correct detractors and gay-liberation activists, is that he was a self-loathing gay man. His homosexual characters are cloaked in heterosexual disguise, the argument goes, and so their humanit
(New York Times , 2/27/2000)
A New York Times article.
A generation separates the Cuban-American playwrights Maria Irene Fornes and Nilo Cruz. Ms. Fornes was 15 when she left Cuba in 1945 -- long before Fidel Castro seized power in the 1959 revolution. Mr. Cruz was 9 when he and his parents left in 1970.
Ms. Fornes and Mr
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June 4, 2013 | San Francisco
