Elliot Tiber

Elliot Michael Tiber (April 15, 1935 – August 3, 2016) was an artist and screenwriter who wrote a memoir about the held in Bethel, New York in 1969. He claimed responsibility for the relocation of the festival after a permit for it was withdrawn by the zoning board of a nearby town.

Tiber's 2007 memoir , written with Tom Monte, was adapted into a by Ang Lee. The film opened in the United States in August 2009. In the film, Tiber is portrayed by comedian Demetri Martin.

Tiber was born as Eliyahu Teichberg, in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York. His family moved to White Lake in Bethel in 1955 where they acquired a rooming house that they expanded into a motel, called the El Monaco Motel, at the intersection of New York Route 17B and New York Route 55 near the southeast shore of White Lake. He changed his name before enrolling in college.

Tiber attended Brooklyn College and received a BFA from Hunter College. He was in the MFA program at Pratt Institute.

In his book , Tiber says he was present at the Stonewall Riots on 28 June 1969, and that he had a part in bringing the to Bethel, New York on 15–17 August 1969.

Tiber said he led a closeted life in Bethel in the early 1960s as he spent time managing his parents' El Monaco Motel, serving as president of the Bethel Chamber of Commerce, and, at the same time, participating in the gay scene in New York, where he lived.

According to Taking Woodstock, Tiber read that Wallkill, Orange County, New York had on 15 July 1969—30 days before the music festival was to start—pulled the plug on the planned Woodstock Festival at the Mills Industrial Park northeast of Middletown, New York.

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