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

The Four Corners of Nowhere

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

Release Date1995-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Finneas

8.1

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 Date2006-08-02

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

7.0

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 Date2017-03-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count15865

7.8

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 Date2012-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count10949

Jericho
7.4

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 Date2006-09-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count29

Vote Count512

6.1

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 Date2016-03-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6847

8.1

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 Date2017-11-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8125

6.8

Nonnas

After losing his beloved mother, a man risks everything to honor her by opening an Italian restaurant with actual nonnas — grandmothers — as the chefs.

Release Date2025-05-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count434

6.8

Rent

In New York City's gritty East Village, a group of bohemians strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.

Release Date2005-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count587

6.3

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 Date2021-09-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count358

6.6

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 Date2007-04-27

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count717

Brutally Normal

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 Date2000-01-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

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.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

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.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

1.0

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 Date2016-05-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count3

A Thousand Broken Pieces

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector