Our audio series “The Authors Read. We Listen.” was originally hatched in a NYC club during BEA back in 2012. It’s a fun little series, where authors record themselves reading an excerpt from their own novels, in their own voices, the way their stories were meant to be heard.
Today, Paul Chitlik joins us, reading an excerpt from his recently released book Lies, All Lies. Paul has written for all the
major networks and studios in English and in Spanish. He was story editor for MGM/UA’S “The
New Twilight Zone,” and staff writer for Showtime’s sitcom “Brothers.” He has written features for Rysher
Entertainment, NuImage, Promark, Mainline Releasing, and others. He has directed episodes and been
coordinating producer for “Real Stories of the Highway Patrol” and “U.S.
Customs Classified.” He wrote and
produced “Alien Abduction,” the first network movie shot on digital video for
UPN. He wrote, produced, and directed “Ringling
Brothers Revealed” a special for The Travel Channel. (He had been a roustabout for Circus Vargas
years earlier.) Most recently he wrote,
produced and directed “The Wedding Dress,” for Amazon Prime. He received a Writers Guild of America award
nomination for his work on “The Twilight Zone” and a GLAAD Media
Award nomination for “Los Beltrán,” a Telemundo show. He won a Genesis Award for a Showtime Family
movie.
He has taught in the MFA programs of
UCLA, the University of Barcelona’s film school ESCAC, Cuba’s film school
EICTV, Chile’s film school UNIACC, The University of Zulia in Venezuela, The
Panamerican University in Mexico City, The Story Academy of Sweden and as a
clinical associate professor at Loyola Marymount University. Now writing full time again and living near
his grandson in Chapel Hill, NC, with wife, Beth McCauley.
Click on the soundcloud link below to hear Paul reading from Lies, All Lies
What it’s about:
There I stood, all five eight of me, poolside at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, soaking wet in my retro bathing suit, holding a dry pair of tickets to the Emmys that night, in front of a gorgeous woman, and I didn’t know who I was, where I was, or why I was. Or, just as importantly, who she was and what she was to me. Over the course of the next few days I discovered I was a thirty-something Emmy winning writer-actor showrunning a popular sitcom, but I had to learn about that one detail at a time until my memory came back. Then I realized I could be anyone I wanted to be, but I had to decide who that was and what that would mean for my girlfriend, my wife, my kids, my father, my brother, my cast, my agent, my PR maven, my assistant, and a 135 other people who depended on me for their livelihoods or their lives.I had the opportunity to change my life completely, and I did, eventually doing something real for other people while my gay sitcom character came out as straight and flipped the script on my show and my life.
