In broad colorful strokes THE WINO MUST DIE captures the social political and cultural landscape post 1960 s for a successive generation of young unprepared urban African Americans in the 1970 s All innocently follow the path made by dozens of highly educated African American trailblazers activists and architects of equality in the 1960 s A revelation becomes clear immediately after civil rights legislation is passed when victory was declared by all and the modern civil rights movement subsequently ended At that moment everyone suddenly realized none of us could blame white people for our troubles ever again The Wino Must DieIm one of those authors who took the long way around But first some vital stats Im originally a New York City native Brooklyn precisely Im a public school kid K 12 Graduate of NYU TSOA BFA I also kicked around the halls of Hunter college Undergrad Hunter Graduate theatre program and Pace University Undergrad Ive been writing creatively most of my life I won a poetry contest at 10 and that cemented my fate I fell in love with the theater in the 1970s drama specifically Began acquiring all sorts of skills playwright stage management directing set design Then decided I loved film Went to film school Acquired many skills Writing Directing camera sound editing producing etc. etc Rubbed l I m one of those authors who took the long way around But first some vital stats I m originally a New York City native Brooklyn precisely I m a public school kid K 12 Graduate of NYU TSOA BFA I also kicked around the halls of Hunter college Undergrad Hunter Graduate theatre program and Pace University Undergrad I ve been writing creatively most of my life I won a poetry contest at 10 and that cemented my fate I fell in love with the theater in the 1970 s drama specifically Began acquiring all sorts of skills playwright stage management directing set design Then decided I loved film Went to film school Acquired many skills Writing Directing camera sound editing producing etc. etc Rubbed lots of people the wrong way won t mention any names Then worked the independent film circuit for a while Taught television and film production for a while Then decided to go back home and really study fiction writing That was over five years ago The end result is THE WINO MUST DIE WINO started as an adaptation of one of several original screenplays I wrote Although the original inspiration is still an important story for me I was knocked in the head by a question during the story s development that propelled me in another direction The question was how did I get here It began haunting me The question is also directed at the current state of my African American community I m not one of those people who begrudges my people or much less anyone for not being further along economically socially or otherwise I believe it s an arbitrary counterproductive exercise We are where we are But I do believe every destination has a journey Those incremental existential experiences we perceive as setbacks or progress The question spoke about that experience to me Journeys are wrought with amazing challenges Some get dealt with head on while others not In either case a decision to deal or not to deal with physical mental or spiritual challenges leads to various transformations along the way Both good and bad productive or counterproductive Journeys are immortalized by their affirmations of progress and trans formative experiences It s also the reason why the screenplay I originally chose to adapt has become the sequel to the Wino Must Die The main character Nick has the transformation in Wino that leads to the sequel Wino is a realistic story of an epic transformation It s also a story with many interesting characters that I hope will rise up and launch many other stories And that s my story. I m one of those authors who took the long way around But first some vital stats I m originally a New York native Brooklyn precisely I m a public school kid K 12 Graduate of NYU TSOA BFA I also kicked around the halls of Hunter college Undergrad Hunter Graduate theatre program and Pace University Undergrad I ve been writing creatively most of my life I won a poetry contest at 10 and that cemented my fate I fell in love with the theater in the 1970 s drama specifically Began acquiring all sorts of skills playwright stage management directing set design Then decided I loved film Went to film school Acquired many skills Writing Directing camera sound editing producing etc. etc Rubbed lots of people the wrong way won t mention any names Then worked the independent film circuit for a while Taught television and film production for a while Then decided to go back home and really study fiction writing That was over five years ago The end result is THE WINO MUST DIE WINO started as an adaptation of one of several original screenplays I wrote Although the original inspiration is still an important story for me I was knocked in the head by a question during the story s development that propelled me in another direction The question was how did Nick get the site_link