About me
John Weidman has written the books for a wide variety of musicals, among them Pacific Overtures, Assassins, and Road Show, all with scores by Stephen Sondheim; Contact, co-created with director/choreographer Susan Stroman; Take Flight and Big, scores by Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire; and the new book, co-authored with Timothy Crouse, for the Lincoln Center Theater/Roundabout Theatre/National Theatre revivals of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. Weidman revised the book for I Can Get It for You Wholesale, score by Harold Rome, book by his father, Jerome Weidman, which recently completed a run at the Classic Stage Company. His next project is a musical adaptation of the movie Norma Rae, score by composer/lyricists Rosanne Cash and John Leventhal. When his children were pre-schoolers, Weidman began writing for Sesame Street, receiving more than a dozen Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Children's Program. From 1999 to 2009 he served as President of the Dramatists Guild of America and currently serves as President of the Dramatists Legal Defense Fund.
