Robert Weibezahl’s plays include “And Lightning Struck,” now published by Next Stage Press (commissioned and presented by Lit Live, Simi Valley, California, 2017; Winner, 2020 Quarantine Playwriting Competition, Grand Theatre, Cartersville, Georgia), “Which Way the Wind Blows” (staged reading Palisades Playwrights Festival 2018 and Finalist at Dayton Playhouse’s FutureFest 2019), and “Hold On” (staged reading Palisades Playwrights Festival 2019). His short plays have been performed (live and virtually) by theatre companies in ten states across the U.S. and in Australia, as well as at the Midwest Dramatists Conference and the William inge Festival. He has worked in various production capacities on feature films and television movies, has published two novels ("The Wicked and the Dead" and...
Robert Weibezahl’s plays include “And Lightning Struck,” now published by Next Stage Press (commissioned and presented by Lit Live, Simi Valley, California, 2017; Winner, 2020 Quarantine Playwriting Competition, Grand Theatre, Cartersville, Georgia), “Which Way the Wind Blows” (staged reading Palisades Playwrights Festival 2018 and Finalist at Dayton Playhouse’s FutureFest 2019), and “Hold On” (staged reading Palisades Playwrights Festival 2019). His short plays have been performed (live and virtually) by theatre companies in ten states across the U.S. and in Australia, as well as at the Midwest Dramatists Conference and the William inge Festival. He has worked in various production capacities on feature films and television movies, has published two novels ("The Wicked and the Dead" and "The Dead Don’t Forget"), two non-fiction books, and numerous poems and short stories (including the Derringer Award finalists “Identity Theft” and "Why are You Just Sitting There?"), as well as several hundred book reviews as a monthly columnist for "BookPage." A "Jeopardy!" champion, he lives in southern California and is a member of the Dramatists Guild.