Warren Leight (born January 17, 1957) is a Tony Award-winning American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer.
Raised in the Sunnyside section of the borough of Queens and the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Leight began his writing career with the 1980 horror flick Mother's Day, followed by the documentary Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter, the indie Stuck on You!, and the Miramax release The Night We N...
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Warren Leight (born January 17, 1957) is a Tony Award-winning American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer.
Raised in the Sunnyside section of the borough of Queens and the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Leight began his writing career with the 1980 horror flick Mother's Day, followed by the documentary Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter, the indie Stuck on You!, and the Miramax release The Night We Never Met, which he also directed and which earned him a nomination at the Deauville Film Festival. He also scripted the 1996 Greg Kinnear comedy Dear God.
In the 80's, he was the creative director/writer for a highly regarded quartet of female comics known as the "High Heeled Women," which included actress Arleen Sorkin that performed in cabarets in New York City.
For his first theatrical project, Leight teamed with composer-lyricist Charles Strouse on the 1985 musical "Mayor", inspired by Ed Koch and his dealings with Leona Helmsley and Bess...
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