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Graham Gordy is known for Quarry (2016), True Detective (2014) and Rectify (2013). More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Resume. Add to list. Awards. 1 win & 1 nomination. Known for. Quarry. 8.0. TV Series. Writer (creator) 2016 • 8 eps. True Detective. 8.9. TV Series. Writer. 2019 • 1 ep. Rectify. 8.3. TV Series. Writer. 2013 • 6 eps.
- Writer, Producer, Actor
- Graham Gordy
Oct 28, 2016 · During this exclusive interview with Collider, showrunners Michael D. Fuller and Graham Gordy talked about why they wanted to tell this story, teaming up with Greg Yaitanes, who directed every...
Sep 21, 2020 · Quarry co-creator/exec producer Graham Gordy is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce. Edgerton will executive produce via his Five Henrys production banner, as part of a...
Dec 18, 2016 · SELF PORTRAIT. Graham Gordy. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH: Nov. 11, 1975, Conway. FAMILY: wife Amy Gordy and children Lilla and Ike. WHAT I ALWAYS HAVE WITH ME: my phone, keys and a fountain pen....
- Writing Is Hard
- Writing to “Say Something”
- The Industry
- What Now?
- Conclusion
It’s hard to write. Let’s start off with that. It’s hard to write. Aristotle begins his Poeticstalking about “mimesis,” or imitation, and how we, as human beings, learn everything by imitating the actions of other humans (as if there weren’t enough of an incentive not to be raised by assholes). We mirror life. We learn by watching and then doing. A...
In grad school, I was too cool to learn craft. I said I wanted to be experimental. The problem with that thinking is that if you don’t know the craft, if you don’t know the form, with what are you experimenting? It took me a long time to learn that “experimental,” in my case, was a synonym for “childishness,” and for not wanting to do the work. The...
Oh Lord. I didn’t want to address the industry. I’ll feel so cheap and tawdry afterward. It’s also where I spent all that Maker’s Mark I mentioned before. But the subject of this article does warrant that we acknowledge the tension between art and commerce. You may have no interest in writing for Hollywood or Broadway, but certainly many writers ha...
So…what do we do now? What do any of us do? Regardless of our commercial ambitions, or lack thereof, we work harder and get better. We make better films and plays. We work twice as hard. We master structure, character, dialogue, personal voice, theme, and tone. The days of an interesting little independent film, or play, that has a lot of structura...
Elia Kazan declared that the life of a dramatist, “is a totality.… Everything is pertinent, there is nothing irrelevant or trivial.” You are choosing to depict lifeas your vocation, so you must know life better than the average observer. Part of what appealed to me so much about writing was the writing life—the idea of spending most of the day in m...
Quarry: Created by Michael D. Fuller, Graham Gordy. With Logan Marshall-Green, Jodi Balfour, Damon Herriman, Edoardo Ballerini. Quarry, a disillusioned Vietnam War vet, returns home to Memphis in 1972 only to find rejection and scrutiny at every step.
About. Graham Gordy completed his MFA at NYU, where he received the Goldberg Award for Playwriting. His plays have been produced by Naked Angels, the New Group, New York Stage and Film, and the Royal Court (London). He was a writer and producer of and actor in the recent independent film Antiquities, writer for the Sundance series Rectify, ...
