Bill Weeden has been an actor and writer for many years in the New York theater. From 2000-02 he played Hucklebee, the boy's father, in the final cast of "The Fantasticks" at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. He has done Shakespeare, Chekhov, Aeschylus, Shepard, Miller, Guare, the two "horror" musicals (Little Shop and Rocky), and many other stage ventures both straight and musical. As a comedy writer, he has created material for Lily Tomlin, Carol Channing, Stiller & Meara, Madeline Kahn, Dick Shawn, and many others. He is the co-creator (with David Finkle and Sally Fay) of Move It and It's Yours, a musical which has received acclaim and awards in regional theater. For Theatreworks/USA he composed and co-wrote (also with Finkle and Fay) a 1996 musical based on the Babar stories. Bill is a multi-award-winning cabaret writer/performer and a purveyor of corporate entertainment who has been profiled on NBC's Today show and the front page of The Wall Street Journal. He's been an on-camera host on Sundance Channel and a regular commentator on PBS's "Adam Smith's Money World," and has hosted his own cable talk show. A retrospective of his work titled "Into the Weeds" enjoyed an extended run at the Laurie Beechman Theater in 2006. Weeden has also been featured in three Eric Schaeffer television series--F/X's "Starved," Showtime's "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single," and Starz's "Gravity"--as well as a host of independent films. He is a featured voice on the internet audio horror series "Tales from Beyond the Pale." His songs are featured in two 2012 film releases, "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life" and "After Fall, Winter." He also frequently appears as the comic face of aging America in The Onlon and is featured on several successful comedy videos from Upright Citizens Brigade and Lorne Michaels's Above Average. Show less «