News - Max Langert

TV Pilot Commission for Maine-based Sitcom

May 28, 2022May 28, 2022Leave a comment

I got a modest commission to create a spec script for a Portland-based sitcom to highlight the personality of that coastal town (and maybe take some attention away from Portlandia on the OTHER coast). Some initial title ideas: Portland, the Other White Meet Bay Island Ferry Chebeague Island Don’t Come to Peaks Island Breezed...

Spring 2022 Softball Stats

May 13, 2022May 13, 2022Leave a comment

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but our team qualified for the Softball World Series again this year. We barely squeaked out a win in our final qualifying game. This will be the third year we’ve made it since I’ve been with the team. First it was Kansas City, then Columbus. And this year...

The Dating Project in July

May 11, 2022May 11, 2022Leave a comment

Summer Break Theatre is producing this new (dripping, hot off the presses) comedy of mine in the second half of July at Hyde Park Theatre. We had auditions earlier this week and I think things are lining up well. It’ll run two weeks, opening July 17th. A little background on this one, because it’s...

A Million More to Go: the results are in

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022Leave a comment

Had an excellent time, and an excellent cast, and an excellent feedback session at the first in-person Salon at Hyde Park Theatre in a couple of years. Here’s a quote from an email from my friend Helen after the reading which encapsulates the tone of the event: First, let me tell you what a...

Spring, Summer and Fall Onstage

April 12, 2022April 12, 2022Leave a comment

Got a few things brewing over the next six months or so, which is much busier than I usually am. In chronological order: Sunday, April 24th: a reading of A MILLION MORE TO GO at Hyde Park Theatre Sunday, July 17th: opening night of THE DATING PROJECT at Hyde Park Theatre Thursday, September 29th:...

New Year’s Eve Goal (roughly) Met

January 26, 2022January 26, 2022Leave a comment

A little late with an update here, but managed a 13-mile run on December 31st (hello 13/31) remotely and in pieces this year. I was in California and started on a 13.4 mile trail around the Briones Reservoir Loop Trail (below). However, about two miles in, I ran into an impassible mudslide and had...

My Brief Modeling Career

January 25, 2022January 25, 2022Leave a comment

I was cleaning up a bookshelf recently and stumbled on an old magazine and brochure from back when I was, ahem, a big-time New York model. In fact, I was working for The Princeton Review at the time, and they were putting together some print ads, and Management decided that the agency we’d hired...

Sidetracked

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021Leave a comment

A few days ago I learned that one of my best friends growing up has an advanced form of incurable cancer. I probably spent more time with this guy from 7th to 12th grades than with any other non-family person. Truly formative years. The news hit hard, of course, and I’m still digesting it,...

The Pact Optioned for 2022

December 12, 2021December 12, 2021Leave a comment

I’ve never had a play “optioned” before, but in essence that’s what happened. We had a good, productive reading at Hyde Park Theatre last week. A company in town wants to produce it in the second half of 2022 at The Vortex Theatre. I’m waiting till it’s officially on the calendar before I completely...