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Michael Weller (born September 26, 1942) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screen writer. His plays include Moonchildren, Loose Ends, Spoils of War and Fifty Words. His screenplays include Ragtime, for which he was nominated for an Oscar, and Hair, both directed by Miloš Forman.
Moonchildren (originally titled Cancer) 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.
Michael Weller BIO. Michael Weller is an American playwright, screenwriter, and novelist who has made significant contributions to the world of theatre and film. Born in New York City in...
Feb 11, 1988 · MORE than most of his theatrical peers, Michael Weller writes plays that could serve as time capsules of their period. His first full-length work, ''Moonchildren,'' summarizes the 1960's...
Sep 11, 2008 · By Steven McElroy. Sept. 11, 2008. “MOONCHILDREN,” Michael Weller’s 1970 drama about a group of college seniors living together, protesting the war in Vietnam and stumbling toward uncertain...
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Genre. Theatre. edit data. Michael Weller studied music composition at Brandeis University, then worked as a jazz pianist before taking his graduate degree in theater at the University of Manchester, England. His best-known plays are Moonchildren, Fishing, Loose Ends and Spoils Of War.
Michael Weller. "A phenomenal, virtuoso display of wit and verbal imagination." - The New York Times. Originally titled Cancer, this play from the author of Split and Loose Ends explores the rootless 60's generation of free-love and protest. Five male college seniors and their housemates have no purpose in their lives.
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