Willy Holtzman (born 1951) is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events.
Holtzman moved to Middletown, Connecticut in 1969 to attend Wesleyan University, where he majored in American Studies.
In 2007 he helped Bonnie Dickinson and her Wilton High School Theatre Arts students create Voices in Conflict, a play about returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans which ran at the Public Theater, the Vineyard Theatre and the Culture Project.
[citation needed] In his 2011 work The Morini Strad, a play inspired by a true story that rocked the classical music world, Holtzman dramatizes the concert violinist Erica Morini's hiring of an unassuming violin maker to restore her legendary Stradivarius.The play received its European premiere in March of 2024 at Die Freie Buhne Wieden in Vienna.Morini Strad Dazzles Theater Goer He taught as a visiting artist at Bronx Regional High School in the South Bronx, 1987–89, and was Resident Playwright at Juilliard School, 1990–92.
He has worked with the 52nd Street Project in New York's Hell's Kitchen and on the Navajo Reservation.