Set in 1978, Inside Out is a nightmarish story of a young actor who, after volunteering for a unique project to teach drama to inmates of the federal prison,months later finds himself locked in a cell as a convicted murderer. Where he now has already made friends and unforgiving enemies. It introduces the audience to a multitude of characters. Some good, some bad, and a few just evil.
Through
flashbacks we follow Danny as he goes from a care free actor, who's
only worry is knowing when his next audition will come, to a
convicted murderer. His innocence fully revealed
There has never been a plot like this, ever. No book or film,as ever featured an innocent protagonist thrown into prison where he already knows some of the inmates. It is a fictional account of what happens to an “Everyman” that gets caught up in a system deliberately designed to treat all felons the same. It is a story of survival and the difference between justice as seen through the eyes of the law and true justice.
For most of my young life I was a struggling actor. I appeared on such shows as Mash, WKRP in Cincinnati, and General Hospital. For a short time, I even taught an acting workshop. Back in the mid-seventies I was a recent graduate of the very prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts where I was part of the first graduating class in Los Angeles. Over the years I wrote many treatments for the various popular shows of the day. I even wrote a few original ideas for TV. But never sold any of them. After volunteering for a unique project to teach drama to inmates of the federal prison at Lompoc, I wrote the first version of INSIDE OUT in 1983. It was to be my "Rocky." But producers of the day where not interested in a story that truthfully depicted prison violence. I turned it into a published novel in 2015, and finished the rewrite of my screenplay in 2018. I live in No California.