Eric kahn gale biography in content

Hi Eric and welcome to ALWAYS in the MIDDLE. Congratulations on your new book, THE WIZARD’S DOG, scheduled to be launched next week. I&#;ll have a review later this month. First off, how did you decide to become a writer?

I actually first became interested in writing because of acting!

In middle school, I was in every single play and musical. I was a waiter in Hello Dolly, a butler in Annie, and a popcorn vendor in State Fair. I was usually in the chorus, and frequently service-people, and I would have been fine with that if I’d thought the plays were a little better.

Eric kahn gale biography in content

But as much as I loved the art of acting, I didn’t like the material that I was acting.

A friend of mine (who is also a writer today) suggested that we could write our own play to act in. This had never occurred to me.

We wrote film scripts and a few short plays. By college, I’d written a full play that I was really proud of, but I couldn’t get a production mounted anywhere. Plays took money to produce, and I w