word alteredMichael Weller (born September 26, 1942) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and screen writer.

His plays include Moonchildren, Loose Ends, Spoils of War and Fifty Words.

The director Alan Schneider, who was an early collaborator with the playwrights Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee, saw a London run-through of Weller's play Moonchildren, and brought it to the Arena Stage in Washington then to Broadway.

Weller researched the library's collection of the Bruce papers, and began to write his play Buyer Beware, a play that poses the question: If Lenny Bruce were to come back, and book a gig on a campus of today, what would happen?

[6][7] He is described as writing with insight and objectivity about characters who came of age in the time of the war in Vietnam, and he has also written plays that are more personal and deal with matters of the heart.