DGI INSTRUCTOR

RALPH SEVUSH

Ralph Sevush, Esq. has been with the Guild since 1997, where he continues his advocacy on behalf of dramatists as Executive Director of Business Affairs and General Counsel for The Dramatists Guild of America. Earlier in his career, he worked for New Line Cinema and Cinema 5 Films in motion-picture​ marketing, distribution, and script development. Then, as an attorney (Cardozo Law, 1991), he did transactional work for Reiss Media Entertainment, International Media Investors, and Sony Pictures. He was also a legal intern for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. In addition, he co-authored a writ of certiorari for a death penalty appeal in North Carolina, and was the Director of Business Affairs for the Broadway productions of BIG-The Musical, Fool Moon, God Said, “HA!” and the off-Broadway production of Blown Sideways Through Life. He also produced independently an off-off-Broadway revival of Philemon. As a writer, in addition to being a much published essayist, produced playwright, and a former member of the BMI Librettists workshop, his short fiction has been published in print, online, and in podcast form, and his stories have been collected in Spira Mirablis: Fantastic Tales from the Marvelous Spiral” published by taQ’Lut Press (December 2016).