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Warren Leight
Warren Donald Leight (/laɪt/; born January 17, 1957) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He is best known for his work on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Lights Out and as the showrunner for In Treatment and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. His play Side Man was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Warren Leight was born to jazz trumpeter Don Leight (1923–2004), and his wife, Timmy, the second of two children. Both Warren and his older sister, Jody (b. 1955), grew up with financial trouble and around clubs.
In the 1950s, his father played with jazz musicians such as Claude Thornhill, Woody Herman and Buddy Rich. Leight's uncle, Larry, and paternal great-grandfather, Harry Gurovitch, were also trumpet players of Russian descent. His grandmother, Sarah Gurowitsch, was a cellist. He was raised in the Sunnyside section of the borough of Queens and the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Leight received a B.S. degree in communication from Stanford University in 1977, planning a career as a journalist. Leight began his writing career with the 1980 horror film Mother's Day, followed by the documentary Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) (as the voice of "Terrible Teddy"), the indie Stuck on You! (1983), and the Miramax film The Night We Never Met (1993), which he also directed, starring Matthew Broderick, and which earned him a nomination at the Deauville Film Festival. He wrote the screenplay for the 1996 Greg Kinnear comedy Dear God.
In the 1980s, he was the creative director/writer for a quartet of "witty" female comics known as the "High Heeled Women," which included actress Arleen Sorkin, who performed in cabarets in New York City.
He is married to Karen Hauser, who created the Internet Broadway Database (IBDB.com) and serves as Research Director for the Broadway League. They live in New York City with their two daughters.
For his first stage project, Leight teamed with composer-lyricist Charles Strouse on the musical Mayor, inspired by Ed Koch and his dealings with Leona Helmsley and Bess Myerson. It ran for 185 performances at the Top of the Gate in Greenwich Village starting on May 13, 1985. The musical transferred uptown to the Latin Quarter on October 23, 1985, running to January 5, 1986, for another 70 performances. He received a 1986 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Book.
Stray Cats is a "collection of musically influenced monologues" about men, called "cats". Stray Cats was presented by All Season Theatre Group (New York City) on May 14, 1998, directed by Kevin Confoy. The first production was at Naked Angels (New York City) with the collaboration of Jo Bonney and others.
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Warren Leight
Warren Donald Leight (/laɪt/; born January 17, 1957) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and television producer. He is best known for his work on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Lights Out and as the showrunner for In Treatment and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. His play Side Man was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Warren Leight was born to jazz trumpeter Don Leight (1923–2004), and his wife, Timmy, the second of two children. Both Warren and his older sister, Jody (b. 1955), grew up with financial trouble and around clubs.
In the 1950s, his father played with jazz musicians such as Claude Thornhill, Woody Herman and Buddy Rich. Leight's uncle, Larry, and paternal great-grandfather, Harry Gurovitch, were also trumpet players of Russian descent. His grandmother, Sarah Gurowitsch, was a cellist. He was raised in the Sunnyside section of the borough of Queens and the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Leight received a B.S. degree in communication from Stanford University in 1977, planning a career as a journalist. Leight began his writing career with the 1980 horror film Mother's Day, followed by the documentary Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) (as the voice of "Terrible Teddy"), the indie Stuck on You! (1983), and the Miramax film The Night We Never Met (1993), which he also directed, starring Matthew Broderick, and which earned him a nomination at the Deauville Film Festival. He wrote the screenplay for the 1996 Greg Kinnear comedy Dear God.
In the 1980s, he was the creative director/writer for a quartet of "witty" female comics known as the "High Heeled Women," which included actress Arleen Sorkin, who performed in cabarets in New York City.
He is married to Karen Hauser, who created the Internet Broadway Database (IBDB.com) and serves as Research Director for the Broadway League. They live in New York City with their two daughters.
For his first stage project, Leight teamed with composer-lyricist Charles Strouse on the musical Mayor, inspired by Ed Koch and his dealings with Leona Helmsley and Bess Myerson. It ran for 185 performances at the Top of the Gate in Greenwich Village starting on May 13, 1985. The musical transferred uptown to the Latin Quarter on October 23, 1985, running to January 5, 1986, for another 70 performances. He received a 1986 Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Book.
Stray Cats is a "collection of musically influenced monologues" about men, called "cats". Stray Cats was presented by All Season Theatre Group (New York City) on May 14, 1998, directed by Kevin Confoy. The first production was at Naked Angels (New York City) with the collaboration of Jo Bonney and others.