Background
Weidman was born in New York City, the son of Peggy Wright and librettist and novelist Jerome Weidman.
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Education
Harvard University; Yale Law School.
Career
He has worked on stage musicals with Stephen Sondheim and Susan Stroman. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University with a major in East Asian history and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. Theatre Big - 1996 (Tony Award nominee, Best Book of a Musical) Bounce - 2003 Take Flight - 2007 Road Show - 2008 Happiness - 2009.
Achievements
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He and Stroman co-created the Tony Award-winning musical Contact, which opened Office-Broadway in October 1999 at the Newhouse Theatre at Lincoln Center and on Broadway at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre in March 2000. 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 and the writing team have won more than a dozen Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing Foreign A Children"s Series. Foreign example, in 2002 Weidman and the writing staff won the Emmy Award, Outstanding Writing In A Children’s Series, for Sesame Street. 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 - 1990 (revived on Broadway in 2004) (Drama Desk Award nominee, Outstanding Book of a Musical. Tony Award, Best Musical Revival) Contact - 1999 - Office-Broadway. 2000 - Broadway (Tony Award nominee, Best Book of a Musical. Tony Award, Best Musical).
