Romain Weingarten is a French playwright. He was born in Paris, and grew up in Brittany and Ch�teau-Thierry. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, where he was strongly influenced by the work of Antonin Artaud, to whom he dedicated his first play, "Akara". Later though Weingarten rejected the label of "Theatre of the Absurd" sometimes attached to his work, and claimed an affiliation with the Surrealists and Roger Vitrac, preferring to describe his work as "poetic". In 1998, he received "le Prix du Th��tre" from the Acad�mie fran�aise. Weingarten died of old age, according to his family, at Challans, Vend�e, and was buried in Mauron in Morbihan. 

December 5th, 1926 in Paris  /  Died:   Jul 13th, 2006