Michael Swiskay

Writer

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My Details

 

United States , New York City

Current Work Details

What I do

writer

Company

Swiskay Communications

Where I work

I am an individual working from home

Availability

Paid Work or Collaboration

Training

With Robert McKee,
Story Structure

The New School, with Milan Stitt,
Screenwriting

The Ensemble Studio Theater, with Arthur Giron,
Advanced Playwriting

Shooters Q&A

Films I wish I had made

Midnight Cowboy, Rashomon, Paths of Glory, Swept Away (Wertmuller's),

I cried watching

West Side Story

I left the cinema during

Anger Management

Directors I love

John Schlesinger, Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder, Akira Kurosawa, Lina Wertmuller, et. al.

Actors I admire

Laurence Olivier, Dustin Hoffman, Daniel Day Lewis, Greta Scacchi, Jack Nicholson, Albert Finney

Writers I respect

William Shakespeare, Waldo Salt, David Mamet, Calder Willingham, Harold Pinter, Paddy Chayefsky, Gunter Grass

My desert island discs

All Jacques Brel, Who's Next, Beethoven's 9th, Can't Buy a Thrill, Trout Quintet, Derek & the Dominos (is there a limit)...

Books I have given my friends

Gullivers Travels, The Tin Drum, Man in the Middle, Jude the Obscure, Beowulf

My death row meal

Venison

The best thing I own

My mind

More about me

A near death experience and all the circumstances that surround it (before and after) etch in my mind that there are ideas I must express through dramatic narrative on screen and stage!