Richard Gayzur is a late bloomer.
About
Richard
Gayzur
After a lifetime of corporate positions - several of them bearing the title ‘VP of Marketing Communications’ – he is doing what he was meant to do – just create. Or ‘Gayzur-ize’ as it became known during one of his longer corporate stints.
Not that he’d never written. On the contrary. Richard has always been a hands-on communications type. He has personally authored well over a thousand executive speeches, marketing presentations, corporate videos, board presentations, promotional articles, ad copy, slide shows––you name it.
That’s in addition to being a professional keyboardist / composer / producer, online talk show personality (Center Left Radio: The Progressive Voice of Hope Politics and Jazz), a podcaster, voice over artist, licensed attorney and a damned good cook.
There was no particular plan that led to accumulating these disparate skillsets. Each of them was just something he wanted to––had to––do. And not to enhance any particular career path. In fact, his resume was sometimes a point of confusion for potential employers. (“Why didn’t you just stay focused on…?”)
Then, about 11 years ago, during the liquid consumption phase of a barbecue in a friend’s backyard, a question popped into his mind and, being a loquacious sort, he spontaneously shared it with all present:
“Whatever happened to Maria after Tony died?”
Given the post-prandial collective mindset, this question did not lead to a profound discussion of West Side Story.
However, it did lead to a 100-page stream-of-consciousness story-screenplay-novelette populated by many of the original characters and story lines that eventually evolved into The Prison Dialogue. It was also the start of an 11-year writing spree that, for one extended period, was heavily influenced by a Doctor of Energy Medicine. That spree produced 4 interrelated, fully-written screen plays and a fully-written miniseries––all introduced by The Prison Dialogue––and the outline of a TV show that mimics the book’s ‘Energy with Dr. Gina’. All remain un-produced (although the first of the screenplays, ‘Dear Mirona’, was on Fred Caruso’s short list until the recession dried up independent production capital. Of late, there has been renewed interest in their collective production.)
Richard lives on a hillside in Westchester County, NY, where he shares breathtaking Hudson River sunsets with his wife. There’ve been a lot of great meals cooked and shared of late. And a lot of great discussions.
