BIOGRAPHY

​Michael Lederer

Born July 9, 1956; Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Memberships
Dramatists Guild, AEA, SAG-AFTRA
National Arts Club, NYC; Players Club, NYC
PEN International

Work
Founding Artistic Director, Dubrovnik Shakespeare Festival, 2009-2013
Co-founder, Safe Haven Museum, Oswego, NY
Original acting member, Tony Award-winning TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA

Awards
2019 PAGE International Screenwriting Award, comedy
2014 Novel Cadaqués official selection U.S. Embassy Berlin, American Literature Series
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Education

Studied screenwriting with Richard Walter from UCLA, Venable Herndon at NYU
B.A., 1981, Theatre Arts, Binghamton University
Studied with Loften Mitchell, Arthur Lessac
Stanford University summer theatre workshop, 1979
Worked with Robert Egan, Martin Esslin, Andrzej Wirth

Associated links
Las Venice (co-writer, actor)
Saving America (PAGE Award winner)
Mundo Overloadus (2010 premiere)
Politico article 
American Studies Journal Blog 

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