Richard Vetere
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Richard Vetere is an American playwright
, screenwriter
, television writer, poet and an actor.
Vetere's plays have been produced Off Broadway, regionally and internationally, such as The Engagement, Coupla Bimbos Sittin' Around Talkin, Gangster Apperal,
Caravaiggo, Machiavelli, and One Shot, One Kill and all have been published by Dramatic Publishing. In 1983 his play Rockaway Boulevard was reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times
and she wrote,"Vetere demonstrates the ability to mix the poetic with the colloquial."
In 1994 his play Hale the Hero! was aired on television by A&E
General Motors Plays' Theater Series, starring Elizabeth Shue and Kevin Anderson with an introduction by Lauren Bacall
Vetere's Off Broadway production of The Marriage Fool was made into a CBS
television movie starring Walter Matthau
, Carol Burnett
, John Stamos
, and Teri Polo
and it was the highest rated TV movie in 1998. Then released in Europe under the title of Love After Death in 2004. Veter's Off Broadway production of How To Go On A Date In Queens was made into a movie with a cast of comedic actors such as: Jason Alexander
, Kimberly Willams, Ron Perlman
, and Rob Estes
.
Vetere has written for various TV series including Delaventura for CBS starring Danny Aiello
, also as Story Editor onThreat Matrix for ABC
and Disney, and sold a TV pilot The Wonder to CBS with Executive Producer George Clooney
.
His novel The Third Miracle was published in hardcover in 1997 by Carroll & Graf
and in paperback by Simon & Schuster
and was translated into several languages. The novel was selected for The Book of The Month Club in Spain and Poland. Followed by a film produced by Francis Ford Coppola
, directed by Agnieska Holland
, starring Ed Harris
and Anne Heche
, released in April 2000. In 2008 The Third Miracle was presented at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
in New York City, highlighting Agnieszka Holland's body of directorial work.
In 1983 Vetere's screenplay Vigilante was made into a feature film starring Robert Forster
and Carol Lynley
and was the 20th grossing film for that year.
Vetere has been a long time member of the New York Playwrights Lab founded by Israel Horovitz
in 1975. Horovitz quoted in the Newsday
that, "Vetere is a man with a writer's soul."
Vetere's professional teaching credits include NYU
(A Master's Screenwriting), Queens College and Montclair State (An Introduction to Screenwriting), and created a playwright's class at The Lang College at The New School
, along with participating in the Mentoring Program at Columbia University
.
Vetere graduated Columbia University with a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature and has written and published various books on poetry of which include Memories of Human Hands and A Dream of Angels.
In 2005 Stony Brook University archived Vetere's works and letters from 1967 until 2001.
In October 2007, Vetere's musical Be My Love: The Mario Lanza Story, about the life of singer Mario Lanza
, premiered at The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Greenvale, NY. It was directed by Charles Messina
and produced by Sonny Grosso
and Phil Ramone
.
Vetere has two brothers Robert and Albert II and has three nephews Robert, Thomas and Albert III.
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, television writer, poet and an actor.
Vetere's plays have been produced Off Broadway, regionally and internationally, such as The Engagement, Coupla Bimbos Sittin' Around Talkin, Gangster Apperal,
Caravaiggo, Machiavelli, and One Shot, One Kill and all have been published by Dramatic Publishing. In 1983 his play Rockaway Boulevard was reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
and she wrote,"Vetere demonstrates the ability to mix the poetic with the colloquial."
In 1994 his play Hale the Hero! was aired on television by A&E
A&E Television Networks
A&E Television Networks is a U.S. media company that owns a group of television channels available via cable & satellite in the US and abroad...
General Motors Plays' Theater Series, starring Elizabeth Shue and Kevin Anderson with an introduction by Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in The Big Sleep and Dark Passage ,...
Vetere's Off Broadway production of The Marriage Fool was made into a CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
television movie starring Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the 1976 comedy The Bad News Bears...
, Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she made her television debut...
, John Stamos
John Stamos
John Phillip Stamos is an American actor, singer and musician best known for his work in television, especially in his starring role as Jesse Katsopolis on the ABC sitcom Full House. Since the cancellation of that show in 1995, Stamos has appeared in numerous television films and series. From 2006...
, and Teri Polo
Teri Polo
Theresa Elizabeth "Teri" Polo is an American actress known for her role of Pam Focker in the movie Meet the Parents and its two sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers...
and it was the highest rated TV movie in 1998. Then released in Europe under the title of Love After Death in 2004. Veter's Off Broadway production of How To Go On A Date In Queens was made into a movie with a cast of comedic actors such as: Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander
Jay Scott Greenspan , better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, writer, comedian, television director, producer, and singer. He is best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld, appearing in the sitcom from 1989 to 1998...
, Kimberly Willams, Ron Perlman
Ron Perlman
Ronald N. "Ron" Perlman is an American television, film and voice over actor. He is known for having played Vincent in the TV series Beauty and the Beast , a Deathstroke figure known as Slade in the animated series Teen Titans, Clarence "Clay" Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, the comic book character...
, and Rob Estes
Rob Estes
Robert Estes is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Harry Wilson on the Teen drama 90210, as Sgt. Chris Lorenzo on the Crime drama Silk Stalkings, and as Kyle McBride on the Primetime Soap opera Melrose Place.-Career:Estes first became interested in an acting career while training...
.
Vetere has written for various TV series including Delaventura for CBS starring Danny Aiello
Danny Aiello
Daniel Louis "Danny" Aiello, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in numerous motion pictures, including Once Upon a Time in America, Ruby, The Godfather: Part II, Hudson Hawk, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Moonstruck, Léon, Two Days in the Valley, and Dinner Rush...
, also as Story Editor onThreat Matrix for ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
and Disney, and sold a TV pilot The Wonder to CBS with Executive Producer George Clooney
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. For his work as an actor, he has received two Golden Globe Awards and an Academy Award...
.
His novel The Third Miracle was published in hardcover in 1997 by Carroll & Graf
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Carroll & Graf Publishers, an American publishing company centered in New York City, was an imprint of the Avalon Publishing Group,Publisher Kent Carroll, the editorial director of Grove Press from 1975 to 1981, co-founded Carroll & Graf in 1982...
and in paperback by Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...
and was translated into several languages. The novel was selected for The Book of The Month Club in Spain and Poland. Followed by a film produced by Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
, directed by Agnieska Holland
Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland is a Polish film and TV director and screenwriter. Best recognized for her highly political contributions to Polish cinema, Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers.-Personal life:...
, starring Ed Harris
Ed Harris
Edward Allen "Ed" Harris is an American actor, writer, and director, known for his performances in Appaloosa, Radio, The Rock, The Abyss, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, and The Truman Show. Harris has also narrated commercials for The Home Depot and other companies...
and Anne Heche
Anne Heche
Anne Celeste Heche is an American actress, director, and screenwriter. She started her career on the daytime soap opera Another World, for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1991. Heche gradually landed supporting roles in feature films, and in 1997 appeared in I Know What You Did Last Summer,...
, released in April 2000. In 2008 The Third Miracle was presented at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
in New York City, highlighting Agnieszka Holland's body of directorial work.
In 1983 Vetere's screenplay Vigilante was made into a feature film starring Robert Forster
Robert Forster
Robert Forster is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.- Early life :Forster was born Robert Wallace...
and Carol Lynley
Carol Lynley
Carol Lynley is an American actress and former child model.-Life and career:Lynley was born Carole Ann Jones in New York City, the daughter of Frances , a waitress, and Cyril Jones. Her father was Irish and her mother, a native of New England, was of English, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Native...
and was the 20th grossing film for that year.
Vetere has been a long time member of the New York Playwrights Lab founded by Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz
Israel Horovitz is an American playwright and screenwriter.-Theatre career:An American dramatist, Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, many of which have been translated and performed in more than 30 languages worldwide . The 70/70 Horovitz Project was created by NYC Barefoot Theatre...
in 1975. Horovitz quoted in the Newsday
Newsday
Newsday is a daily American newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties and the New York City borough of Queens on Long Island, although it is sold throughout the New York metropolitan area...
that, "Vetere is a man with a writer's soul."
Vetere's professional teaching credits include NYU
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
(A Master's Screenwriting), Queens College and Montclair State (An Introduction to Screenwriting), and created a playwright's class at The Lang College at The New School
The New School
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. From its founding in 1919 by progressive New York academics, and for most of its history, the university was known as the New School for Social Research. Between 1997 and 2005 it was known as New School University...
, along with participating in the Mentoring Program at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
.
Vetere graduated Columbia University with a Masters Degree in Comparative Literature and has written and published various books on poetry of which include Memories of Human Hands and A Dream of Angels.
In 2005 Stony Brook University archived Vetere's works and letters from 1967 until 2001.
In October 2007, Vetere's musical Be My Love: The Mario Lanza Story, about the life of singer Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza
right|thumb|[[MGM]] still, circa 1949Mario Lanza was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star of the late 1940s and the 1950s. The son of Italian emigrants, he began studying to be a professional singer at the age of 16....
, premiered at The Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Greenvale, NY. It was directed by Charles Messina
Charles Messina
Charles Messina is an American playwright, screenwriter and director.Messina was born in Greenwich Village, of Italian-American descent...
and produced by Sonny Grosso
Sonny Grosso
Salvatore "Sonny" Grosso is a movie and television producer and former New York City Police Department detective, noted for his role in the case immortalized in the book and movie versions of the French Connection...
and Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone is a South-African violinist, composer, recording engineer, and record producer.-Biography:As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten...
.
Vetere has two brothers Robert and Albert II and has three nephews Robert, Thomas and Albert III.
External links
- http://www.stonybrook.edu/libspecial/collections/manuscripts/vetere.shtml
- http://www1.cuny.edu/forum/?p=1805