GERRY MAXEY WORKSHOP will be about ideas, concepts, beliefs, opinions, scripts,plays, homages, films, screenplays, more opinions, current projects,future projects and even more opinions.  

• GERALD MAXEY Writer, Director, Producer holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California and a M.A. from San Francisco State University in Creative Writing. He has traveled extensively to over 27 countries, and worked for the US government as a futurist. He authored the novel, CODES, about the Coyotero Apaches in New Mexico based on his experiences as a VISTA volunteer.  He has Written and Directed the film festival movie, VENICE BEACH SKETCHES, an episodic drama about the decline of the American male as a heroic figure. He helped co found the WHITMORE/LINDLEY THEATER COMPLEX in North Hollywood, California and has had the following plays produced in Los Angeles, HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES, ROCOCO, TEXTURE OF INNOCENCE, and MOMMIE DEAREST or how Richard Gere taught me everything I know about life.

• His next film , FORLORN HOPE,  which he co-authored, is about the Los Angeles school system. He will then  follow that with a classical  JOHN FORD/HOWARD HAWKS Western, LOS PISTOLEROS.  Also in the planning stages are the following films, a film noir musical, WHITE NOISE, a roman a clef about San Francisco hippies, THE TEXTURE OF INNOCENCE and a Civil War saga, THE BURDEN OF HEAVEN.

• "The style i am trying to develop was labeled RETRO CLASSICISM by a British observer; which  makes me the first Retro Classicist. RETRO CLASSICISM is taking the  idiom of great writers and applying  it to modern, dramatic themes; as I did with Turgenev in the  FIRST LOVE sketch  of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES, Noel Coward in the VENICE REMATCH sketch, and Jean Paul Sartre in THE BASEBALL MAN sketch. The screenplay  FORLORN HOPE is written in the idiom  of  Clifford Odets and Lillian Hellman; and the LOS PISTOLEROS  Western is a homage crafted in the John Ford idiom."

• PLEASE note FORLORN HOPE is currently in the SAG/AFTRA breakdowns, all talent, please submit through that protocol