Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky (born January 25, 1970) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director best-known for writing The New York Times bestselling coming-of-age novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999), as well as for writing and directing the film version of the same book, starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, and Ezra Miller. He also wrote the screenplay for the 2005 film Rent and Disney's 2017 live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, alongside Evan Spiliotopoulos, and was co-creator, executive producer, and writer of the CBS television series Jericho, which aired from 2006 to 2008. Most recently, he directed the 2017 drama Wonder, starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay. His next novel, Imaginary Friend, was published in October 2019.

Works

Nonnas

Brooklyn native Joe Scaravella, after losing his beloved mother, realizes he’s wasted time as a single man at a dead-end job and yearns for a second chance at life.

Release Date: 2025-05-09

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Dear Evan Hansen

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.

Release Date: 2021-09-24

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 332

Wonder

The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.

Release Date: 2017-11-13

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 7924

Beauty and the Beast

A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

Release Date: 2017-03-16

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 15531

Leaving Vogue Moran

In this documentary, a Hollywood hopeful immersed in geek subculture decides it's time to tell the world that he loves transgender women.

Release Date: 2016-05-24

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 2

Allegiant

Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton venture into the world outside of the fence and are taken into protective custody by a mysterious agency known as the Bureau of Genetic Welfare.

Release Date: 2016-03-09

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 6658

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

Release Date: 2012-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 10564

Rent

This rock opera tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling in late 1980s East Village, New York, USA. The film centers around Mark and Roger, two roommates. While a tragedy has made Roger numb to new experiences, Mark begins capturing their world through his attempts to make a personal movie. In the year that follows, they and their friends deal with love, loss, and working together.

Release Date: 2005-11-17

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 560

A Thousand Boy Kisses

Seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia with one thing on his mind: to discover why Poppy Litchfield, his childhood friend who promised to wait faithfully for his return, broke his heart and fell silent two years ago. When he discovers the truth, he finds that the greatest heartache is yet to come.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Jericho

Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.

Release Date: 2006-09-20

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 482

No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'

Feature length documentary about Jonathan Larson and "Rent"'s journey from Broadway to the screen. Featuring director Chris Columbus, the entire cast, and dozens of friends and family of Jonathan Larson.

Release Date: 2006-08-02

Character: Himself

Vote Count: 7

Brutally Normal

An American sitcom that aired on The WB in 2000. The series revolved around Pooh, a teenage boy with a group of diverse friends, all going through their senior year at Wacker H. Normal High School. Anna, a foreign exchange student, and Russell, Pooh's wise-cracking best friend, are key members of this group. The show dealt with surreal situations that the group would encounter, reflecting in its title. Only five of the eight produced episodes aired, with the series being canceled on February 14, 2000.

Release Date: 2000-01-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

The Four Corners of Nowhere

Seven recent graduates, underemployed and frustrated, reunite in their Michigan college town.

Release Date: 1995-09-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Finneas

Weekend Warriors

Based on the 2023 German comedy-drama Weekend Rebels, an autistic teenager wants to find a favorite Premiere League soccer club and makes his father take him to see every single team so he can decide.

Department: Directing

Job: Director

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.

Release Date: 2007-04-27

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 640