John Weidman (born September 25, 1946) is an American librettist. He is the son of librettist and novelist Jerome Weidman.^[1]

He has written the books for a wide variety of stage musicals, three in collaboration with Stephen Sondheim: Pacific Overtures, Assassins, and Road Show. In 1999 he co-created the Tony Award winning musical Contact with choreographer/director Susan Stroman. He has been nominated for the Tony Award for Best Book for a Musical three times.

Since 1986, Weidman has been a writer for Sesame Street, for which he has won more than a dozen Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Children's Program.^[2]

From 1999 to 2009 he was president of the Dramatists Guild of America.^[3]

Weidman received a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.^[3]

[edit] Stage work (libretti)

• Pacific Overtures - 1976 (Tony Award nominee, Best Book of a Musical)
• Anything Goes - 1987 (revised original book with Timothy Crouse; Tony Award, Best Musical Revival)
• Assassins - 1991 (revived on Broadway in 2004) (Drama Desk Award nominee, Outstanding Book of a Musical; Tony Award, Best Musical Revival)
• Big - 1996 (Tony Award nominee, Best Book of a Musical)
• Contact - 2000 (Tony Award nominee, Best Book of a Musical; Tony Award, Best Musical)
• Bounce - 2003
• Take Flight - 2007
• Road Show - 2008
• Happiness - 2009

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• John Weidman at the Internet Broadway Database
• MTI shows biography

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