Ralph Sevush, Esq. (author) began his career in motion-picture ​marketing, sales, distribution, and script development for New Line Cinema and other NY-based film companies. Later, as an entertainment attorney, he worked on the Broadway productions of BIG- the Musical, Fool Moon, and God Said, “HA!”, before coming to the Dramatists Guild in 1997. He has been the Guild’s co-Executive Director and General Counsel since 2005.  As a writer, in addition to the stories in Spira Mirablis, his credits include: Savage Cinema, a film review column for Worlds of If…magazine (1983), and Little One, Goodbye, an award-winning play produced by the Tada! Theater, the Enchanted Players of New Jersey, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and the Innovative Stages Company (1994-1996). The play later earned him acceptance into the BMI/Lehman-Engel Musical Theater Librettists Workshop. He has also authored countless essays for The Dramatist Magazine over the past 20 years, primarily about copyright, free speech, and the theater industry.