Gary Corbin, Author at Gary Corbin Writing

The Seven Year Itch

While his wife and son escape the brutal New York summer heat, Richard just might have to scratch that Seven Year Itch when a beautiful young girl moves into the apartment upstairs. But what is wife Helen up to in Maine? Role: Tom McKenzie Author: George Axelrod Director: Tim Luke Production Company: North End Players…

The Odd Couple at North End Players

Can two divorced men – Oscar Madison, a disorganized, casual, honorable slob, and his best friend Felix Ungar, an uptight, neurotically neat control freak – live together, and survive the experience? A Neil Simon classic that inspired the hit TV series. Role: Oscar Madison Author: Neil Simon Director: Cassie Thompson Production Company: North End Players…

Dirty Work at the Crossroads

Gary played evil villain Munro Murgatroyd in Bill Johnson’s “Gay ’90’s” classic Melodrama that inspired a generation of Saturday morning cartoons. Directed by Melinda Leuthold, the play opened May 6 at Loves Street Playhouse in Woodland, WA. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads” tells in laughable style the tear jerking story of Nellie Lovelace, an innocent…

A Talent for Murder

The relatives of an internationally successful mystery novelist wouldn’t mind killing her to get their hands on her art collection. The banter between the novelist, her savvy Indian butler who uses words like “chutzpa” and her live-in doctor provides comic relief from the mayhem being planned by the family. A mystery with twists and turns…

Lost in Yonkers

In the summer of 1942, two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York when their father, Eddie, needs to take a job as a traveling salesman to pay off the medical bills incurred by his late wife’s illness. As Eddie tries to…

Black Coffee, by Agatha Christie

“The famous Hercule Poirot (played ably by Tony Provenzola) is summoned by England’s most prominent physicist, Sir Claud Amory. Amory fears that someone in his household is attempting to steal his latest discovery, a secret formula critical to England’s defense. But there are other secrets, too… “I think it was Corbin, as the Italian Dr….

Arsenic and Old Lace

Mortimer Brewster, a renowned theater critic, discovers that his kindly old aunts have a bad habit of poisoning lonely, old men with elderberry wine to ease their suffering. With the unexpected arrival of Mortimer’s devious and slightly homicidal other brother, Jonathan, things take a turn for the worse. Can Mortimer outwit Jonathan, maintain his engagement,…

Lying in Judgment (Novel)

Lying in Judgment: a murder trial from a jury’s perspective Peter Robertson serves on the jury of a murder trial — for the crime that he committed. Peter Robertson, 33, discovers his wife is cheating on him. Following her suspected boyfriend one night, he erupts into a rage, beats him and leaves him to die…

Script Development

Gary develops scripts under contract and works with playwrights to help them improve characters, plot, dialog and structure. Gary developed the script for the PCC CLIMB Center’s Manufacturing Industry marketing video, available for viewing online. He wrote his dinner theater comedy Murder at the Barracks under contract to Fort Vancouver National Trust. Gary also frequently…

Playbills and Programs

We do short stuff too. Playbills, programs, brochures, pamphlets—we can take it from start to finish, creating copy, adding graphics and laying it all out in an eye-catching format. Click on links below to see recent work samples. Playbill for “KleptoFamilia” at Fertile Ground, January, 2014. Playbill for “Lying in Judgment” and “The Exes” at…

Workshops and Conferences

Gary leads writing workshops that build on his unique blend of skills and experience. Recent workshops include: Character Building Workshop, PDX Playwrights, 2017-18. Participants learn how to create and exploit the unique attributes of their characters in stage plays. Download the character profile and dialog drill handouts here. Improv Your Writing. Willamette Writers Conference, 2010…

PS, I Love Your Daughter

A middle aged man falls for his best friend’s 30-something daughter. Michael, a 40-something divorced man, has spent three years moping after his divorce. His best friend and former drill sergeant, Paul, convinces him to start dating again. Michael meets Jennifer, the woman of his dreams, at a trade show – only to discover that…

The Exes

Two divorced couples crisscross their romantic paths and hook up with each others’ exes without realizing it until it’s too late and wedding bells start to chime. Elaine, dumped a few years back by playboy husband Sam, runs a struggling bookstore that somehow attracts the attention of Alex, a shy younger man whose hard-charging wife…

Copy-editing, line-editing, and proofreading

Having authored, edited and critiqued hundreds of documents of all types, both fiction and non-fiction, Gary can help you get your manuscript ready for publication. Our services include: Editing Writing a novel, a short story, a memoir? Gary can help you get it ready for the editor or agent query or for final publication— or…

PCC CLIMB Center Manufacturing Sector Video

PCC CLIMB Manufacturing Video

PCC’s CLIMB Center commissioned me (via Innovative Growth Solutions) to help them develop this video. I wrote the script and led the group through a facilitated development process before it got turned over to PCC’s media production department. Script Medium: Video Length: Short (2 min) All audiences Production History: Produced in 2015 by Portland Community…

Dad, I Hardly Know You

Just when never-married, forty-something Victor thinks he may have talked his new girlfriend Andrea, an unemployed erotic yoga instructor, into moving in with him, his estranged father Abe barges back into his life—suitcase in hand. Abe’s obsession with his own aging body and his take-no-prisoners tendency to say whatever crosses his mind leads to confessions…

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