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Warren Leight
Highest Rated: 56% The Night We Never Met (1993)
Lowest Rated: 56% The Night We Never Met (1993)
Birthday: Jan 17, 1957
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
After a circuitous route that included stints as a teacher in China, a scriptwriter at a low-budget exploitation production company and a journalist, Warren Leight found critical acclaim and popular success with his autobiographical drama "Side Man," produced on the New York stage in 1998. The New York native crafted a memory play that explored the familial relationships among a jazz trumpeter, his alcoholic wife and their son caught in the middle. Originally produced in a small theater off-off-Broadway, the show transferred to off-Broadway and then finally to Broadway (with Christian Slater in the leading role) where it was one of the three finalists for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56% | 35% | The Night We Never Met | Director | $1.4M | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter | Writer | - | 1982 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 78% | 81% | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
Writer, Writer, Executive Producer |
2011-2015 2019-2024 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Law & Order: Criminal Intent |
Writer, Writer, Executive Producer |
2003-2011 |
| No Score Yet | 82% | Lights Out | Executive Producer | 2011 |
| 90% | 57% | In Treatment | Director | 2009 |