Robert Weibezahl’s plays include And Lightning Struck (commissioned and presented by Lit Live, Simi Valley, California, 2017; Winner, 2020 Quarantine Playwriting Competition, Grand Theatre, Cartersville, Georgia), Which Way the Wind Blows (staged reading Palisades Playwrights Festival 2018 and Finalist at Dayton Playhouse’s FutureFest 2019), and Hold On (staged reading Palisades Playwrights Festival 2019). His short plays have been performed in New York, California, Arizona, Minnesota, Kansas, and Australia, as well as online. He has worked in various production capacities on feature films and television movies, has published two novels (The Wicked and the Dead" and The Dead Don’t Forget), two non-fiction books, and numerous poems and short stories (including the Derringer Award finalist “Identity Theft”). He lives in southern California.