Ronnie Larsen is a playwright and film director specializing in writing plays about sex.
His play ''Making Porn'' was about the gay porn industry in the 1980s, and the production was notable for casting gay porn actors. Productions have starred Blue Blake, Rex Chandler and
Ryan Idol
Ryan Idol (born August 10, 1966) is an American gay pornographic film actor who performed in the 1990s and later onstage in mainstream theater. He has French, Irish, and Native American ancestry. Idol describes himself as "the creation of Marc ...
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In 1997, Larsen made a documentary about the gay porn industry entitled ''Shooting Porn''. It is not a filmed version of the play ''Making Porn''.
The film featured figures from the
gay pornography
Gay pornography is the representation of sexual activity between males. Its primary goal is sexual arousal in its audience. Softcore gay pornography also exists; it at one time constituted the genre, and may be produced as beefcake pornogra ...
industry including Gino Colbert,
Chi Chi LaRue
Larry David Paciotti (born November 8, 1959) is an American director of pornographic films. He appears as the drag-diva persona Chi Chi LaRue (), and has been credited as director under the names "Lawrence David" and "Taylor Hudson".
Career ...
, Blue Blake, Adam Rom, Rip Stone and Adam Wilde.
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Plays produced
*1994 ''Scenes From My Love Life''
* 1995 ''Making Porn''[
*1996 ''Talk Show'' later to be titled ''Sleeping with Straight Men''
* 1998 ''Peep Show'']
Reviews
New York Times
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critic Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, poet, and music and film critic.
Biography
Holden earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Yale University in 1963. He worked as a photo editor, staff writer, and eventually be ...
found the film ''Shooting Porn'' to be "disappointingly frivolous," characterizing it as "coyly unrevealing" and a "shallow, titillating look" at its subject.[
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References
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American LGBT film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male dramatists and playwrights
American LGBT dramatists and playwrights
American documentary film directors