Yoni Weiss is a professional show queen.
As a theatremaker…
Yoni is the co-creator of Off-Broadway’s Fowl Play, a clucked-up musical comedy with Billboard-charting composer Billy Recce, directed by Olivier Award winner Tye Blue (Titanique). Fowl Play’s recent sold-out showcase featured Broadway, television, and drag icons, with cameos from Las Culturistas co-hosts Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers.
Fowl Play was a semifinalist for both the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and the Circle in the Square Emerging Writers Residency, and has been featured at Playbill Pride in Times Square, 54 Below, Chelsea Table + Stage, The Green Room 42, and Montclair State University.
Upcoming projects include an adaptation of a murder-mystery comedy, available soon from Concord Theatricals, as well as Marian!—a new musical with Mark Thomas Johnson and Billy Recce, commissioned by Benson Drive Productions and developed at the 2026 Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Grove at Goodspeed Musicals.
As a director, writer, and producer, other credits include headlining Dixon Place’s HOT! Festival with I Do Believe in Fairies (named one of Time Out New York’s “Best LGBT Things to Do in New York”), Pseusdocide (Pace University), I’m a Fucking Icon (The Tank), Crowds Out Front, Mass Cycle, The Nina Variations, and Elegies: A Song Cycle for Doghouse Ensemble Theatre, where he served as Co-Artistic Director for four years.
He is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Pace University’s Directing program in partnership with The Drama League.
As a collaborator…
Yoni has worked as an associate and assistant to celebrated directors, including Victoria Clark, Sarna Lapine, Michael Wilson, Dave Solomon, Michael Rupert, and others on productions at Keen Company, The Town Hall, Encores! at New York City Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, and most recently, Classic Stage Company for Kander & Ebb’s The Rink, starring Tony Award winners Beth Leavel, Jessie Mueller, and Santino Fontana.
As an arts executive…
Yoni specializes in collaborating with major brands and artists to develop, license, and elevate new work for the stage. He is currently the Theatrical Coordinator at International Literary Properties, supporting authors, playwrights, librettists, lyricists, composers, estates, and heirs in realizing the value of their intellectual property. Working closely with producers, licensing agencies, and theatres worldwide, ILP Theatrical represents luminaries including Tennessee Williams, Langston Hughes, Alfred Uhry, Marsha Norman, Paddy Chayefsky, and Jean Shepherd.
Before joining ILP, he served as Manager of Acquisitions & New Work at Broadway Licensing Global, championing enduring legacies and emerging voices across the Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts imprints. While at BLG, he commissioned and developed musical adaptations of two of the most-produced plays in American schools, and collaborated with the Obie Award-winning Breaking the Binary Theatre on three volumes of short plays for and by transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ artists. Additional acquisition highlights included Oh, Mary!, Leopoldstadt, Latin History for Morons, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Just for Us, Teeth, King James, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Musical, and Water for Elephants, among other works that continue to impact audiences worldwide.