Willie Reale is an American playwright and lyricist who often works with his elder brother Robert Reale.
He had small acting roles in The Hudsucker Proxy, The Laser Man, Tales from the Darkside and The Burning. He is also one of the major creative forces behind the 2009 revival of The Electric Company.
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Reale founded the 52nd Street Project in 1981, an organization that brings inner-city children together with professional theater artists to create works. He served as the artistic director for eighteen years and produced hundreds of plays with the Project, which has been replicated at twelve sites across the United States, using a series of publications called the Kid Theater Kit.
Reale is married to producer Jenny Gersten. They have two children, Augustus and Leonardo.
In June 1994, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in recognition of his ingenuity in creating theater and theater education programs for young people.