Persistence (And A Little Chutzpah) Earn Young Playwright His Off-Broadway Debut How did Paul Downs Colaizzo do it? By, among other things, cold-calling a marketing firm for a job, lobbying erstwhile colleagues to get his script into a play-reading festival, and befriending one of American theater's hottest directors by walking up to him on the sidewalk.
The New York Times 02/17/13