Yoni Weiss is a professional show queen.

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 has been featured at Playbill Pride in Times Square, 54 Below, Chelsea Table + Stage, The Green Room 42, and Montclair State University, and was a semifinalist for both the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference and the Circle in the Square Emerging Writers Residency.

As a director, writer, and producer, Yoni’s 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. Yoni regularly directs concerts at NYC venues with food-and-beverage minimums.

Yoni has supported celebrated directors as an associate and assistant to Victoria Clark, Sarna Lapine, Michael Wilson, Dave Solomon, and Michael Rupert 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.

He currently serves as 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, Paddy Chayefsky, and Jean Shepherd.

Yoni specializes in collaborating with major brands and artists to develop, license, and elevate new work for the stage, having most recently 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, acquisition highlights at BLG included Oh, Mary!, Latin History for Morons, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Just for Us, King James, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Musical, Water for Elephants, and three volumes of short plays written for and by transgender, non-binary, and Two-Spirit+ artists in partnership with Breaking the Binary Theatre. He also developed commissioned musical adaptations of works by Don Zolidis, the most-produced playwright in American schools.

A graduate of Pace University’s Directing program (in partnership with The Drama League) and Interlochen Arts Academy, Yoni is an advocate for artists, ambitious stories, and the future of the theatrical landscape—committed to creating, discovering, and amplifying work that expands our collective imagination.