"I think I have an ear for writing for women because I have a very vocal grandmother, mother, and sister. I was a young actor. I started officially at the age of seven and a half. And one of my first teachers said, "Just listen to other people and observe and watch people. Go to a mall, watch people." Well, I went to malls, I went to my living room, I went to my dining room table,"
"and there was all this very loud, provocative discussion. And I just like the way they talk. My best friends were always women. And they, I think, are raised more being in touch with emotions and feelings, whereas when I was growing up, boys were taught to buck up, you know, be the tough one. They weren't really given permission to have all the feelings."
Stan Zimmerman is an actor, director, and writer who wrote for female-led television series including The Golden Girls, Roseanne, and The Gilmore Girls. He grew up a theater kid in the Detroit suburbs and attended NYU, where he met Jim Berg, his longtime writing partner. He wrote the play Right Before I Go, inspired by the suicide of a close friend, and staged it with a rotating cast including Hill Harper and Wendie Malick. Zimmerman attributes his facility for writing women to listening, close relationships with women, sensitivity, and years of acting and observation.
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