The theatrical producer Eric Schnall (“Hedwig and The Angry Inch”) has written his first novel, “I Make Envy on Your Disco” (University of Nebraska Press, 2024). Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction. It’s the new millennium and the anxiety of midlife is creeping up on Sam Singer, a thirty-seven-year-old art advisor. Fed up with his partner and his life in New York, Sam flies to Berlin to attend a gallery opening. There he finds a once-divided city facing an identity crisis of its own. In Berlin the past is everywhere: the graffiti-stained streets, the candlelit cafés and techno clubs, the astonishing mash-up of architecture, monuments, and memorials. Eric Schnall has worked on and off Broadway as a producer and marketing director for more than twenty-five years. He won a Tony Award for the Broadway revival of “Hedwig” and a Lucille Lortel Award for “Fleabag”. He has also written about techno and electronic music for Billboard and Revolution, profiling DJs and musicians from around the world.
And the filmmaker Zach Clark (“Little Sister”, “White Reindeer”) has a new film coming out called “The Becomers”, a science fiction genre film produced by Joe Swanberg. It will be at Cinema Village in NYC as of 8/23 with subsequent theatricals in LA & Chicago. Escaping their dying planet, two body-snatching alien lovers arrive separately on Earth. Jumping from body to body in search of each other, they dig deeper and deeper into the madness of modern society.
