Jeff Weiss is an actor and playwright working on Broadway and Off-Broadway since 1964. His numerous Off-Broadway theater credits include: La Mama E.T.C., Café Cino, Mercer Arts Center, The Public Theater, Lincoln Center Theater, Delacorte Theater, Irish Arts Center, P.S. 122, and New York Theatre Workshop. Weiss’s performance credits are:  PREVARICATIONS (1964), WAITING BOY (1964), THREE MASK DANCES (1966), WINDOW (1966), WHEN CLOWNS PLAY HAMLET (1967), GLORIA AND ESPERANZA (1969), COTTON CLUB GALA (1975), DOCTOR FAUSTUS LIGHTS THE LIGHTS (1979), HAMLET (1986)(three parts!), FRONT PAGE (1987), MACBETH (1988)( four parts!), MASTERGATE (1989), OUR TOWN (1989), CASANOVA (1991), CAROUSEL (1995), HENRY V (1996), FAMILY  VALUES (1996), IVANOV (1997), MR. PETER’S CONNECTION (1998), THE BUNGLER  (2000), THE INVENTION OF LOVE (2001), PHILOCTETES (2002), FLESH AND BLOOD (2002), and HENRY IV (2004). He has written AND THAT’S HOW THE RENT GETS PAID (1966/1979), A FUNNY  WALK  HOME (1967), THE INTERNATIONAL WRESTLING MATCH: AN OLD TESTAMENT MORALITY PLAY IN TWO VENGEFUL ACTS (1969), LOCOMOTIVE MUNCH (1972), F.O.B (1972), PUSHOVER (1973), AND THAT’S HOW THE RENT GETS PAID, PART II (1973), HORSEMEAT: A PLAY TO SEE WHILE SIPPING TEA (1974), GOOD SEX: PART 1: FOREPLAY (1977), DARK TWIST (1979), AND THAT’S HOW THE RENT GETS PAID, PART IV (THE CONFESSIONS OF CONRAD GEHRHARDT) (1984), and HOT KEYS (1992). He also often performed in his own plays.   

Jeff Weiss was born in Reading, Pennsylvania then settled  in Allentown, Pennsylvania with his family at age five. He performed at various theaters in Allentown and surrounding communities. Weiss moved to New York in the early 1960’s and began working at La Mama and performing in plays written by Robert Sealy. In 1966 he wrote his first iteration of AND THAT’S HOW THE RENT GETS PAID (1966) performed at La Mama, which then went on to receive an Obie Award. Weiss created his own theater group called Good Medicine & Company, which he operated in collaboration with his partner, Richard C. Martinez. In 1967, Jeff Weiss made his Broadway debut in Spofford. Additional Broadway credits include Our Town (1989), Present Laughter (1996), The Iceman Cometh (1999), and The Invention of Love (2001). For his Off-Broadway work, Weiss has received the Robert Chelsey Award, the Joseph Cino Memorial Award, and several Obie awards.