Elliott Sirkin

ELLIOTT SIRKIN
18 Upland Road
Cambridge, MA 02140
617-354-6327 / ElliottSirkin@comcast.net

EDUCATION

The Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard Graduate, Special Studies, 1991
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland B.A. in English, 1971. Grade point average: 3.9

PUBLICATIONS (partial list)


AMERICAN FILM	Essay on Grace Kelly	July-August 1984
THE ATLANTIC	Review of The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter	December 1983
BALLET REVIEW	Essay on musical films	Vol. 5, No. 1
BOSTON GLOBE	Review of Charmed Lives by Michael Korda	December 9, 1979
	Review of A Dance on the High Wire by Jed Harris	January 6, 1980
	Review of Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson	February 7, 1993
BOSTONIA	“The Cosmo Contagion”	March-April 1992
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES	Review of Kilgallen by Lee Israel	October 1979
	Review of Show People by Kenneth Tynan	February 1980
	Review of The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill	May 1980
CHICAGO TRIBUNE	Interview with Bette Davis	August 31, 1980
DETROIT NEWS	Review of Expensive Habits by Maureen Howard	May 25, 1986
DETROIT NEWS	Review of A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Sparks	August 18, 1988
THE DIAL	Interview with Joanne Woodward	February 1982
FILM COMMENT	Film Favorites: George Stevens’ Alice Adams	September-October 1971
	Review of The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book by Arlene Croce	March-April 1973
	‘Miss Piggy: A Sow Is Born’	May-June 1978
FILM QUARTERLY	Review of Women in Love	Fall 1970
FILM QUARTERLY	Review of Klute	Spring 1971
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING	Interview with Helen Hayes	March 1986
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING	Interview with Mary Martin	July 1987
HARVARD MAGAZINE	Essay on Edward Sheldon	March-April 2001
LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL	Interview with Carol Burnett	December 1989
THE NATION	Review of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, Christopher Durang’s Baby With the Bathwater, and Wendy Wasserstein’s Isn’t It Romantic	February 18, 1984
NEW YORK MAGAZINE	Review of Leading Lady: The World and Theatre of Katharine Cornell by Tad Mosel	December 18, 1978
	“Breakfast of Superstars”	June 18, 1979
	Review of Broadway Musicals by Martin Gottfried	December 12, 1979
NEW YORK TIMES ARTS & LEISURE	Interview with Roy Scheider	March 9, 1980
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW	Review of The Journals of Thornton Wilder	October 13, 1985
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW	Review of Straight Cut by Madison Smartt Bell	October 12, 1986
NEWSDAY and NEW YORK NEWSDAY	Since 1979, over 15 book reviews and interviews, including:
	Reviews
	The Language of Clothes by Alison Lurie	January 10, 1982
	Edie by Jean Stein	June 27, 1982
	Occasional Prose by Mary McCarthy	June 30, 1985
	On Acting by Laurence Olivier	January 7, 1987
	Interviews
	Ethel Merman	May 9, 1982
	Bobby Short	June 27, 1985
	Cheryl Crawford	August 4, 1985
	Dina Merrill	November 10, 1985
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER	Review of A Stolen Past by John Knowles	March 1983
PLAYBILL	“Gilding the Merm”	October 1980
PLAYBILL	Interview with Sandy Duncan	December 1980
(BOSTON) REAL PAPER	A series of interview essays in 1978 with Wilfrid Sheed, Gore Vidal, Mary Gordon, A. Scott Berg, and other writers
THE SOHO NEWS	Interview with Sono Osato	May 7, 1980
TRAVEL & LEISURE	“Affordable Culture in New York”	December 1989
	Places I Love: Interview with Diana Vreeland	December 1982
	Places I Love: Interview with William Styron	March 1983
VOGUE	“People Are Talking About Urbanity”	September 1982
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD	Review of Finch, Bloody Finch by Elaine Dundy	September 25, 1980
WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD	Review of Bette: The Life of Bette Davis by Charles Higham	October 5, 1981

EMPLOYMENT


Staff Jobs
Fall 1987	THE SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, New York City, New York Instructor, Department of Journalism Duties included teaching Feature Writing to a class of 15 sophomore students.
1972-1978	HARPERCOLLINS, PUBLISHERS, New York City, New York First Reader, Editorial Department (1973-1978) Duties included reading and evaluating incoming manuscripts for the editorial staff. Discovered and/or worked on: Joan Givner’s Katherine Anne Porter (Touchstone Paperback) Armistad Maupin’s Tales of the City (Ballantine Paperback) Marge Piercy’s The High Cost of Living (Fawcett Paperback) Frederick Busch’s The Mutual Friend Leonard Wallace Robinson’s The Man Who Loved Beauty (NAL Paperback) Edited, researched, and rewrote Thou Swell, Thou Witty: The Life and Lyrics of Lorenz Hart by Dorothy Hart Trainee, Production Department (1972-1973) Duties included copy-editing, proofreading, analyzing manuscripts for production, collating galleys, testing freelance proofreaders, and assisting the head production editor.
Consulting
2000-2004	The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Consultant on their encyclopedia Notable American Women 5 (Harvard University Press, 2005). Voted for actresses to be included in this book; also wrote the essay on Bette Davis.
1978	Research Consultant, The Manhattan Theatre Club. Did research for a revue of Dorothy Fields’s songs, A Lady Needs A Change. The show was my idea.
Freelance Jobs
1977	Worked with Diana Trilling, checking facts and proofreading galleys of her book We Must March, My Darlings.
1975-1977	First Reader, Editorial Department, Avon Books, New York City, New York Duties included reading the scripts for upcoming films and TV movies, commenting on their suitability for publication as paperback novelizations.
1974-1980	Production Editor, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York City, New York Duties included proofreading, copy-editing and checking facts for Film Comment.

References available upon request