Michael Lederer
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July 9, 1956 Princeton, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
Michael Lederer (born July 9, 1956 in Princeton, New Jersey) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet and playwright currently living in Berlin, Germany.Die Welt has called him "among the great American writers."
Michael Lederer was born in Princeton, New Jersey, where his father, Ivo Lederer, taught contemporary Russian and East European diplomatic history at Princeton University. His father was a native of what is now Croatia. In 1957 the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut. In 1965 they moved again to Palo Alto, California. Six months later the parents divorced. Lederer attended Palo Alto schools, graduating from Henry M. Gunn High School in 1974. At age 12, Lederer joined the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) to work as a child actor in San Francisco. In 1972 he played Gandalf in a production of The Hobbit at Palo Alto Children’s Theatre. The role of Smaug the dragon was played by future best-selling fantasy author Tad Williams. In the mid seventies, Lederer lived in a teepee on a hippie commune called The Land in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. The community was founded by Joan Baez and her then husband David Harris as the Institute for the Study of Non-Violence. An extensive interview with Lederer about his time on The Land can be found on The Land website.
In 1981, Lederer received a B.A. in Theatre Arts from Binghamton University in New York. Lederer was an original acting member of TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. Roles there included Lucullus in Brecht’s The Trial of Lucullus, Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac, Prince Serpuhovsky in Tolstoy’s Strider, and Sigmund Freud in Fraulein Dora. In 1989, Lederer played Claudius in a touring production of Hamlet in London and Hong Kong. During that same year in London he helped break the news of the discovery of The Rose Theatre, the first Elizabethan era theatre ever unearthed. After stumbling upon the archeological dig on London’s South Bank, he alerted The London Evening Standard, issuing the first public call to save the ruins of The Rose from destruction by real estate developers.
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