Out Of My Head - Learning to Reach People Through the Arts
Co-creator of the Broadway musical RENT, Emmy-winning playwright Billy Aronson describes his bizarre, harrowing, joyful struggle to make a life in the arts in OUT OF MY HEAD. This memoir/how-to book features countless lessons he learned along the way, ranging from tips on finding your voice, finding your audience, and making money with your art, to collaborating on a marriage.Various chapters include:•The story of how RENT emerged from the sidewalks of 1980’sNew York and Aronson’scollaboration with Jonathan Larson.•An inside look at the making of a PBS Kids show, PEG + CAT, from pitch to final product, and script writing for cult-hit cartoons BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD and COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG.•Accounts of Aronson’sstruggle to keep his brain healthy through the years of self-doubt, near-constant rejection, the extraordinary humiliations only artists can know, and the cutting anxiety and depression to which artists