Arik

"Arik is a screenwriter and playwright from Chicago, where he cut he his teeth producing underground theatre in a dilapidated store-front called 'The Space,' and where his plays developed a loyal cult following. He has been called 'the best legit playwright Chicago has seen since David Mamet,' and 'one of the smartest playwrights working in Chicago,' by critics there. His plays have also been produced in New York and Los Angeles. After a childhood of writing and drawing comics, acting on stage and creating slasher flicks on a camcorder, Arik attended Florida State University on a National Merit scholarship, where he studied theatre. Now based in L.A., he continues to pursue various spec writing projects." (from the press kit of my movie SYMPATHY)
SYMPATHY , the film I wrote and produced, screened at Mann's Chinese Theatre last fall, and recently sold to HBO Central Europe , and landed a video distribution deal with a company in Bucharest . So tell all your Romanian friends to check it out!
My IMDB page (no bullshit)
Friends mean everything to me.
My favorite food is kung pao chicken.
You can read my humor column HERE .
If I wasn't a writer I'd want to be a homicide detective.
I love the smell of used bookstores.
I'm an avid fan of the Chicago Bears and the Chicago Cubs.
Played concert piano at age 4.
THE CHATTERBOX , the radio show I created and hosted, is on an extended hiatus, but you can still listen to highlights on our myspace page .
Let's see, what else about me? I love people watching... I take the hottest showers you've ever heard of... I've been known to burst into song for no apparent reason.
Nobody has more fun than I do. Some come close, but I haven't met the person who enjoys life more than I do.
Plays I've written:
Pinot Noir * (2005)
Somos Gringos Malos, Somos Diablos Blancos (2003)
Thr33s (2002)
Disturbed (2001)
Need (2001)
Serendipity (2001)
Bad-Ass & the Devil (2000)
Bacchae (adaptation) (2000)
Fox, and his friend rabbit (1999)
Sometime in the Morning * (1997)
Cloven Patriarch Photoshoot (co-written with Bob Fisher) (1996)
Jerking-Off at the Mouth (1996)
Crossing Mr. Bridge * (1995)
*=never produced