Randy Weiner

Randy Weiner is a producer, venue owner, and playwright who's been celebrated as "the leading impresario of non-traditional theatre in New York" by the New York Times, and "a mad genius of nightlife" by The Wall Street Journal.

He's recipient of two Drama Desk Awards (Sleep No More and Queen of the Night). Weiner created the theatre nightclub The Box with partners Simon Hammerstein and Richard Kimmel, first in New York, then in London.

Together with his wife, Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus, Weiner created and produced The Donkey Show, a disco adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream performed both in New York, London, Madrid, Geneva, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Seoul, and throughout the United States.

Weiner is the creator of OBERON, the theatre nightclub that served for fifteen years as the second stage for A.R.T. at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Weiner worked as a designer for Cirque du Soleil on multiple occasions, including serving as the dramaturg for their touring tent show Amaluna. He also collaborated with MIT Media Lab to compose Tod Machover and United States Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky to create the opera Death and the Powers, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Weiner has served as a member of the Advisory Committee on the Arts at Harvard University and has lectured on theatre at Harvard, Cornell Tech, Columbia University, Barnard College, New York University, and Yale University. Weiner's work as an entrepreneur in the arts is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.