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The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore | Stan Zimmerman

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ABOUT THE BOOK

The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore is the story of Stan Zimmerman, a gawky boy who dreamed of becoming a wildly successful actor, rich enough to build his own mansion in the Hollywood Hills. While the actor part didn’t quite pan out, Stan found success as a writer, producer, director, and playwright, working on such shows as The Golden Girls, Roseanne, and Gilmore Girls.

Growing up in a small suburb of Detroit, Michigan, Stan was surrounded by three strong, intelligent women-his mother, his grandmother, and his sister-all of whom supported his imagination and creativity. Instead of playing outside, he spent time in his basement directing and acting in plays with the neighborhood kids. At seven-and-a-half years old, he was the youngest student accepted into a prestige summer theater school program.

After high school, he was awarded a work/study scholarship to NY/Circle in the Square, where he met his first serious boyfriend and became Andy Warhol’s unwitting photo subject one night at Studio 54. He also met Jim Berg, a journalism student at NYU, forming a writing partnership that continues to this day.

Throughout his life, most of Stan’s friendships have been with females. He credits those friendships and the women in his family with his ability to connect with creative women who have played a part in his career success. Accompanied by journal entries, The Girls details Stan’s relationships with some of entertainment’s most notable women, including Roseanne Barr, Lily Tomlin, Sandra Bernhard, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel, and, of course, all four Golden Girls.

The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore is a candid, funny, and sometimes poignant testimony about how a young boy turned his dream into reality.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stan Zimmerman is a man of many mediums, from TV to film to stage. He’s been nominated for two WGA Awards for Best Comedy Writing for his work on The Golden Girls and Roseanne. Additionally, Stan’s other Hollywood accolades include writing and producing Gilmore Girls, co-creating the Lifetime sitcom, Rita Rocks, writing for both Brady Bunch movies and rewriting the ABC-TV movie of Annie. They most recently wrote the Lifetime movie, Ladies of the 80’s: A Divas Christmas starring Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray, Donna Mills and Nicollette Sheridan.

Alongside his illustrious career in television, Stan has enjoyed a lengthy career on the stage. Stan has a BFA-Drama from NYU Circle-in-the-Square and has directed such LA productions as The Diary of Anne Frank-Latinx (8 iterations since 2018), Entertaining Mr. Sloane, A Tuna Christmas, Gemini, Spike Heels, Pledge, Heartbreak Help and his original plays — Meet & Greet, Knife to the Heart, Yes Virginia and Have a Good One. Stan directed Off-Broadway’s Hyprov and the Daryl Roth Theatre. TRWplays recently published and licensed three of his works: Yes Virginia, Silver Foxes and Right Before I Go, which he has appeared in across the U.S. He started this year directing Paul Rudnick’s The New Century at the BENT Theatre (Palm Springs) and will end it directing his play Yes, Virginia at The North Street Playhouse (Onancock, VA) this November.

Stan’s literary debut, The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore [Indigo River Publishing, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, February 13, 2024] details his time working alongside some of the most notable women in the TV industry, including Lily Tomlin, Roseanne Barr, Sandra Bernhard, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, and all four Golden Girls. He was featured in People Magazine, Queerty, Fox Digital News, The New York Post, The Daily Mail, The Hollywood Reporter, Emmy Magazine and Out Magazine. Stan has appeared on many morning news shows, including California Live-KNBC (Los Angeles), PIX 11 (NYC), KEYE (Austin), Eye on the Desert (Palm Springs) and KATU (Portland). He’s been a guest on numerous podcasts including Dan Savage and was also the “bartender” on Watch What Happens Live! With Andy Cohen.