Richard Dresser

Richard Dresser (born c. 1951) is a popular American playwright and screenwriter, whose work has been widely performed in theatres across the United States, as well as in Europe. In addition to his plays, he wrote the book for the Broadway musical Good Vibrations and the musical Johnny Baseball. Dresser has also served as a writer and producer for multiple television series, most notably The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

Dresser was raised in Massachusetts. Following college, he worked in several different jobs at various New England factories, including one position where he manufactured thighs for G.I. Joe action figures. Dresser later became a graduate student in communications at the University of North Carolina, with the intention of pursuing a career in radio; he discovered his talent for drama when he took an elective course in dramatic writing that led him to enter, and win, a collegiate play festival.

Before finding success as a playwright, Dresser did freelance writing for corporate speeches and industrial films, mainly for pharmaceutical companies. He credits his early career experiences in factories and the corporate world with inspiring his workplace comedies The Downside and Below the Belt (set in a pharmaceutical company and a manufacturing plant, respectively).

Dresser lived in New York City as of the late 1980s; in the early 1990s, he moved to Los Angeles with his wife and son (born around 1990) He and his family moved from Los Angeles to upstate New York in approximately 2000.

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