Michael Weller is a Brooklyn-based playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

 who is best known for his plays Moonchildren

Moonchildren

Moonchildren is a play by Brooklyn-based playwright Michael Weller. The play chronicles a year in the life of the "moonchildren" referred to in the title: eight college students living communally together in an off-campus attic in the mid 1960s.-Performances:The work was first performed in 1971...

 and Loose Ends. Weller is one of the founders of the Cherry Lane Theatre's acclaimed Mentor Project, which pairs pre-eminent playwrights with emerging playwrights for a season-long mentorship. In 2005, the Broken Watch Theatre Company in New York named its performance space The Michael Weller Theatre "in honor of his tremendous accomplishments."

Michael Weller attended Brandeis University in Massachusetts, where he studied music composition, then began writing plays. Weller is currently a faculty member at The New School for Drama

The New School for Drama

The New School for Drama is the New School 's three-year graduate program for the theater arts, located at 151 Bank St. It was established in 2005 and grants Masters of Fine Arts degrees in acting, directing and playwriting...

 in New York City.

Playwriting credits

• Moonchildren
  Moonchildren
  Moonchildren is a play by Brooklyn-based playwright Michael Weller. The play chronicles a year in the life of the "moonchildren" referred to in the title: eight college students living communally together in an off-campus attic in the mid 1960s.-Performances:The work was first performed in 1971...
  
   (1971)
• More Than You Deserve
  More Than You Deserve
  More Than You Deserve is a musical written by Jim Steinman and Michael Weller, produced by Joseph Papp and directed by Kim Friedman. It opened at The Public Theater on November 21, 1973, ran for 63 performances and closed on January 13, 1974...
  
   (musical with Jim Steinman
  Jim Steinman
  James Richard "Jim" Steinman is an American composer, lyricist, and Grammy Award-winning record producer responsible for several hit songs. He has also worked as an arranger, pianist, and singer...
  
   - 1973)
• Fishing (1974)
• Split (1979)
• Loose Ends (1979)
• Dwarfman, Master of a Million Shapes (1982)
• The Ballad of Soapy Smith (1984) About infamous con man Soapy Smith
  Soapy Smith
  Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith II was an American con artist and gangster who had a major hand in the organized criminal operations of Denver, Colorado; Creede, Colorado; and Skagway, Alaska, from 1879 to 1898. He was killed in the famed Shootout on Juneau Wharf...
  
  
• Ghost on Fire (1986)
• Spoils of War (1988)
• Lake No Bottom (1989)
• Buying Time (1991)
• Help (1992/2006)
• Dogbrain (play for children - 1993)
• What the Night is For (2002) Comedy Theatre, London with Gillian Anderson & Roger Allam, directed by John Caird; Its US Premiere took place at the Laguna Playhouse, Laguna Beach, California, in 2004, directed by Richard Stein, featuring Claudia Christian and Kip Gilman.
• Approaching Moomtaj (2005)
• Zhivago (musical with Lucy Simon - 2006/2011)
• 50 Words (2007/2007)
• Side Effects, Zero (2011)
• Beast (2008)

Screenwriting credits

• "Once and Again" (1999) (Television)
• Spoils of War
  Spoils of War
  Botín de guerra is a 2000 Argentine documentary film directed and written by David Blaustein with Luis Alberto Asurey. The film premiered on 11 April 2000 in Buenos Aires...
  
   (1994) – play/teleplay
• Lost Angels
  Lost Angels
  Lost Angels is a movie starring Donald Sutherland and Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys. It was released in 1989 and is an independent film. The movie was directed by Hugh Hudson and written by Michael Weller. It was filmed in and around San Antonio, Texas, that city "standing in" for Los Angeles...
  
   (1999)
• Ragtime
  Ragtime (film)
  Ragtime is a 1981 American film based on the historical novel Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow. The action takes place in and around New York City, New Rochelle, and Atlantic City in the first decade of the 1900s, and includes fictionalized references to actual people and events of the time. The film was...
  
   (1981)
• Hair
  Hair (film)
  Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center...
  
  (1979)

External links

• The New School for Drama