Stephen Chbosky

Stephen Chbosky

1970-01-25 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 14 Credits

Biography

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-crea...

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Nonnas

Nonnas

2025

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Dear Evan Hansen

Dear Evan Hansen

2021

Director

6.3
Directing

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistak...

Wonder

Wonder

2017

Director, Screenplay

8.1
Directing Writing

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

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast

2017

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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.

Leaving Vogue Moran

2016

Executive Producer

1.0
Producing

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

Allegiant

Allegiant

2016

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

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 ...

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2012

Novel, Director, Screenplay

7.8
Directing Writing Producing

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam ...

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

The Poughkeepsie Tapes

2007

Executive Producer

6.6
Producing

When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign...

No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'

No Day But Today: The Story of 'Rent'

2006

as Self

8.1
Acting

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

Rent

Rent

2005

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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...

The Four Corners of Nowhere

The Four Corners of Nowhere

1995

as Finneas

Acting

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

The Four Corners of Nowhere

The Four Corners of Nowhere

1995

Writer, Director, Associate Producer

Writing Directing Producing

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

A Thousand Boy Kisses

N/A

Director

Directing

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...

Weekend Warriors

N/A

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

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 t...