Paul Bryant

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The International Festival of Arts & Ideas announces that its virtual Ideas programming will begin on Tuesday, May 12, and continue through Friday, June 26.

Week Two's performances included Waitress, Come From Away, Beetlejuice, Chicago, and Jersey Boys!

Impaired Vision Productions is excited to bring EARWORM to the stage for its World Premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Written by David Paul Bryant, directed by Robert Carlton Stimmel and David Paul Bryant, EARWORM follows a group of people who each have a song stuck in their head that they're dying to get out. The play deals with themes of mental health, relationships, and how we perceive the world. Opens June 2nd at McCadden Place Theater - 1157 N. McCadden Pl., Los Angeles, CA 90038

'The Thin Book of Fat Lies' (ISBN-10: 1492857815) is part childhood autobiography, part unbridled imagination- 'The Thin Book of Fat Lies' is a seriously funny and imaginative collage of debatable truths and fiction from composer and writer Gary Paul Bryant. While none of these eight short stories compares to a Greek tragedy, the author delivers where it counts- humor. In 'Stall' the reader explores a typical day at the end of time. In 'The Phone' Quigley Smith discovers his own childhood family phone at a local antique store and gets a startling surprise when he makes his first call. Drawing on Bryant's own childhood experience, 'Spaceships' shows us what can happen when we try to emulate our rocket-driving heroes. Gleason Snickell shows us what life is really all about in 'Gleason Snickell and the Search for Love' and 'The Bitter Climb' finds an unhappy young man getting some important choices made for him. 'The Fourth Grade: My First Oral Report' would make Twain's Huck Finn smile, and Robert Levenplatter gets to live just a bit longer in Awkward: The First Resurrection of Robert Levenplatter. Finally, the Bryant's first foray into short fiction, 'The First Ride: The Real Story of Santa Claus,' rounds out the collection. An award-winning composer with more than two hundred published songs, Gary's 'blue-collar' songwriting has placed his music in thousands of YouTube videos while his fiction writing continues to intrigue and entertain readers the world over.