R E X
P I C K E T T
screenwriter, novelist, playwright
and film producer
AUTHOR OF
THE 'SIDEWAYS' TRILOGY
made into a motion picture
starring
PAUL GIAMATTI &
THOMAS HAYDEN CHURCH
Awards: Academy Award
for Best Adapted Screenplay (2005) · Golden Globe
Award for Best Motion Picture –
Musical or Comedy (2005)
NEW NOVEL THE ARCHIVIST COMING 2020!
REX PICKETT is the author of the novel Sideways,
the multiple award-winning Alexander Payne film of the same title. Sideways captured
over 350 critics and awards organization plaudits, including 2 Golden Globes,
an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, the prestigious Writers Guild
Award, 6 Indie Spirit Awards … and the list goes on.
Rex has written and directed two independent feature
films, California Without End and From Hollywood to
Deadwood (Island Pictures). He wrote the 2000 Academy
Award-winning Best Live Action Short My Mother Dreams the Satan’s
Disciples in New York.
His Sideways sequel Vertical won
the Gold Medal for Fiction from the Independent Publisher Book Awards in
2012. His Sideways 3 Chile forms the final leg of the
trilogy.
In 2012, Rex adapted his novel into Sideways:
the Play. He staged four record-breaking runs, first at Ruskin Group
Theatre in Santa Monica where it ran for 6 months, then the La Jolla (la hoya)
Playhouse, where it broke all attendance records for a non-musical in their
35-year history, with 3-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff directing.
In 2017, in collaboration with composer Anthony Adams,
Rex turned his attention to the musical version of Sideways.
Two years later the Book for the musical is finished, half the songs are
composed and recorded, and a 3-time Tony Award-winning musical theater director
(to be announced soon) has come on board. There is every likelihood that
the “workshop” (or premiere) production will happen in the latter part of 2020.
Rex grew up in southern California, matriculated from
the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). He was a Special
Projects major, specializing in literary and film criticism, and creative
writing.
A member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild,
and now ASCAP, Rex has enjoyed success in long-form fiction, screenwriting,
independent film, and now stage.
The Rex Pickett Papers are now enshrined at his alma
mater UCSD in Geisel Library’s Special Collections & Archives.
Rex’s new novel
The Archivist
will be published
in 2020
by Blackstone Publishing.
THE SIDEWAYS
TRILOGY
AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.COM
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REX PICKETT
APPEARS
NOVEMBER 26TH 2019
7 PM PACIFIC/10 PM EASTERN
on INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS
with RAY SHASHO
BBS RADIO 1
www.bbsradio.com
