Talk:Carter Bays

Semi-protected edit request on 31 March 2015

Hoping to make some style edits - not changing any content or adding information. Citations already exist on the page for the below edits. Please just help me rewrite article if possible, thanks!

3. Please rewrite the following paragraph FROM:

He has a younger sister, Abigail. Bays became interested in writing as a child, and often cites his idyllic boyhood in the Cleveland suburbs as inspiration. While at Shaker Heights High School, Bays won the Stephen Sondheim Young Playwrights National Competition.[5] His award winning play was staged in New York, and featured a starring role with then unknown actress, Camryn Manheim.

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While at Shaker Heights High School, Bays' play "Five Visits From Mr. Whitcomb" was selected for the 1993 Young Playwrights Festival in New York City. The play was staged at Playwrights Horizons theater, and featured Camryn Manheim in the cast.The festival was a production of Young Playwrights, Inc., an organization founded by Stephen Sondheim, for which Bays currently serves as Treasurer.

4. Please rewrite the following paragraph FROM:

Upon graduation from Shaker Heights High School in 1993, Bays went on to attend Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. While at Wesleyan, Bays indulged in his love of music by joining a band, The Testostertones, as lead singer. The Testostertones were a soul band comprised of eight fellow Wesleyan students, including his future writing partner Craig Thomas on drums. The band played at numerous parties and fraternities on and around the Wesleyan Campus. [6]

Bays became an intern at MTV in the Fall of 1996, which would later influence his writing.[7]

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Bays graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997. While at Wesleyan, he and Craig Thomas performed in a nine piece soul band called the Testostertones. In the summer of 1996 Bays and Thomas were interns in the Development department of MTV.

5. Please edit following paragraph FROM:

It was at Letterman that Bays befriended fellow writer, Will Forte. When Bays moved to Los Angeles in the fall of 2012, he became Forte's roommate in Santa Monica.

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It was at Letterman that Bays and Thomas befriended fellow writer and future How I Met Your Mother guest star Will Forte.

6. In section ==Personal Life==, please change "Stephen Sondheim Young Playwrights Inc." to just "Young Playwrights Inc."

Please keep citations where appropriate

Jgolum (talk) 18:50, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Mlpearc (open channel) 21:55, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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