Weeden is known for his work in genre film, starring in a number of Troma productions and other indie films, including playing the lead villain, Reginald Stuart, in Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990),.[6] He was called the "Troma Olivier" by the New York Post for the performance.[7]
Weeden starred in Rachel Mason's rock-opera The Lives of Hamilton Fish (2013) as the serial killer Hamilton Fish, whose life is contrasted with the lawmaker with the same name.[8]
Weeden is the only actor in the "slow cinema" film Byron Jones.[9]
In 2020, Weeden starred as the protagonist, Dr. ZOOmis, alongside Kansas Bowling in the parody film Psycho Ape!.[10][11]
In 2021, Weeden received a Best Actor award[12] for his leading performance as a conflicted war veteran in the suspense-drama short film RedSin.[13][14]
Weeden is the composer of the Broadway show Hurry, Harry (opened 1972)[17] and composed additional material for the Broadway show I'm Solomon (opened 1968).[18]
Weeden played Hucklebee in the final cast of the original Sullivan Street production of The Fantasticks,[19] which closed in 2002.[20][21] He was also featured in Try to Remember: The Fantasticks, a documentary examining the history of the show.[22]
He created two original musical revues with performing and writing partners David Finkle and Sally Fay (as Weeden, Finkle & Fay) for the New York production company Playwrights Horizons[23][24] and a children's musical, Babar's Birthday, for Theatreworks/USA.[25] The trio also toured as major market performers for a show organized by Fortune Magazine specifically to entertain and court potential advertisers,[26] even receiving front-page coverage for the act in the Wall Street Journal.[27] The trio also wrote the musical Move It and It’s Yours, which has been performed numerous times in regional theater.[28]
The musical revue Into the Weeds: Selections from the Bill Weeden Songbook features Weeden's songs, including his various collaborations.[29][30]
Weeden has also performed in a number of off-Broadway and touring shows, including an East Village outdoor production of As You Like It, George Bataille's Bathrobe,[31]The Magnificent Ambersons,[32] an Atlantic City production of Little Shop of Horrors,[32]The Rocky Horror Show,[33]The Wizard of Oz,[34] and Damn Yankees.[35]
Weeden (with Finkle and Fay) contributed several songs to The No-Frills Revue, the 1987 off-Broadway musical conceived by Martin Charnin.[36]
Weeden has written comedy material, often with writing partner David Finkle, for Lily Tomlin,[37] Carol Channing,[38][39] Stiller & Meara,[40] Dick Shawn,[41][42] Madeline Kahn,[43][44] and others.
Weeden, Finkle & Fay's "Part of the Problem (The Inflation Song)" was released on 7" on MCA Records in 1980.[45][46]
Weeden has often collaborated with Upright Citizens Brigade,[47][48] including the comedy video "Author Wrote a F***ing Book," a parody of James Patterson's commercials, written by Achilles Stamatelaky and directed by Ryan Hunter.[49]
Weeden played the father of correspondent/comedian Jordan Klepper on a 2015 episode of "The Daily Show."[50]
He has narrated a number of audio books, often paired with his wife Dolores McDougal.[51]
The song "One Big Team" was written and performed by Weeden for the 1988 New York Yankees' Old Timer's Day,[29] and in 2006 by Tony-winning Broadway star James Naughton on the YES Network's Yankees Magazine.[52]
Weeden joins other horror filmmakers and performers, such as Larry Fessenden and Amy Seimetz, voicing the horror "radio" series Tales from Beyond the Pale.[53]
