Novelist, Playwright

Lying in Judgment - a novel by Gary Corbin. Photo by Gary Corbin.

Lying in Judgment (novel) coming to life!

It’s coming. The Novel. After ten years of outlining, writing, critiquing, rewriting (even, once, as a play), workshopping, pitching, revising, editing, querying, and waiting for a dying industry (traditional publishing) to embrace my creation, it is coming to life. Lying in Judgment, my legal thriller about a man serving on the jury of a murder…

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The Odd Couple at Love St. Playhouse

Neil Simon’s classic comedy, “The Odd Couple,” opens as a group of the guys assembles for cards in the apartment of divorced Oscar Madison. And if the mess is any indication, it’s no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is Felix Ungar, who has just been separated from his wife. Fastidious, depressed and…

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KleptoFamilia

KleptoFamilia

This family will steal your heart – and maybe your wallet. Cate, a divorced middle-aged woman, is in desperate financial straits – not only from her divorce, but from bailing herself and her daughter out of jail for stealing. Her control-freak boyfriend Edgar wants to take their relationship to the next level, but he’s too…

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The Odd Couple

The Odd Couple at North End Players

Can two divorced men – Oscar Madison, a disorganized, casual, honorable slob, and his best friend Felix Ungar, an uptight, neurotically neat control freak – live together, and survive the experience? A Neil Simon classic that inspired the hit TV series. Role: Oscar Madison Author: Neil Simon Director: Cassie Thompson Production Company: North End Players…

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Dirty Work at the Crossroads

Dirty Work at the Crossroads

Gary played evil villain Munro Murgatroyd in Bill Johnson’s “Gay ’90’s” classic Melodrama that inspired a generation of Saturday morning cartoons. Directed by Melinda Leuthold, the play opened May 6 at Loves Street Playhouse in Woodland, WA. “Dirty Work at the Crossroads” tells in laughable style the tear jerking story of Nellie Lovelace, an innocent…

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A Talent for Murder

A Talent for Murder

The relatives of an internationally successful mystery novelist wouldn’t mind killing her to get their hands on her art collection. The banter between the novelist, her savvy Indian butler who uses words like “chutzpa” and her live-in doctor provides comic relief from the mayhem being planned by the family. A mystery with twists and turns…

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Black Coffee, by Agatha Christie

Black Coffee, by Agatha Christie

“The famous Hercule Poirot (played ably by Tony Provenzola) is summoned by England’s most prominent physicist, Sir Claud Amory. Amory fears that someone in his household is attempting to steal his latest discovery, a secret formula critical to England’s defense. But there are other secrets, too… “I think it was Corbin, as the Italian Dr….

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Lying in Judgment (Novel)

Lying in Judgment:  a murder trial from a jury’s perspective Peter Robertson serves on the jury of a murder trial — for the crime that he committed. Peter Robertson, 33, discovers his wife is cheating on him. Following her suspected boyfriend one night, he erupts into a rage, beats him and leaves him to die…

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PCC CLIMB Center Manufacturing Sector Video

PCC CLIMB Manufacturing Video

PCC’s CLIMB Center commissioned me (via Innovative Growth Solutions) to help them develop this video. I wrote the script and led the group through a facilitated development process before it got turned over to PCC’s media production department. Script Medium: Video Length: Short (2 min) All audiences Production History: Produced in 2015 by Portland Community…

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Truthstone

Truthstone

Four friends meet for drinks before their twenty-fifth high school reunion, the first time they’ve all reunited in twenty years. When one of them reveals she’s brought along their own private version of a “Blarney Stone,” embarrassing confessions are a must… plus one confession the others didn’t count on. Comedy Teens and up Approx. 12…

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Mama vs. The Mob

Mama vs. The Mob

Dinner Theater. Chicago, 1927. Al Caponi knows someone is trying to take over his mob operation. But who? It turns out, almost everyone—especially all of the women in his life. “Mama Vs. The Mob” earned three awards in the Special Events category at Magenta’s January 2011 “Artistic Director Awards” – Best Actor, Best Actress, and…

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Murder on Russell Street

Drama, full-length. Based on the legend of the haunting of what is now the White Eagle Saloon in Portland, OR, a young Polish immigrant is accused of two murders he did not commit. Full-length play Drama All audiences Approx. 100 pages Cast size: 10 Development History: Table reading, PDX Playwrights, Feb 21, 2012.