Wallace Shawn’s plays include Marie and Bruce, The Music Teacher (opera with Allen Shawn, composer), Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, The Designated Mourner, Grasses of a Thousand Colors, and Evening at the Talk House. As an actor, he has appeared on stage in David Rabe’s Hurlyburly and many of his own plays. He appeared in Manhattan, Radio Days, My Dinner With Andre, Clueless, Vanya on 42nd Street, A Master Builder, and Rifkin’s Festival, among other films, and on television he appeared in “The Cosby Show”, “Star Trek Deep Space Nine”, “Gossip Girl”, “Mozart in the Jungle” and “Young Sheldon”.