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About Ellis Weiner
- Ellis Weiner is an author and humorist who has previously worked as an editor of National Lampoon and a columnist for Spy Magazine.
- His humor has also appeared in The New Yorker , Paris Review, and The New York Times Magazine. Ellis (known as "Otts" when growing up) was raised in Pikesville, Maryland.
- He attended Wellwood Elementary School, Sudbrook Junior High, Pikesville High School and the University of Pennsylvania.
- His theatrical and literary talent was obvious to all who knew him.
- In college, he played drums and sang in a rock band called Droylesden Wake. His first produced work was the 1967 Pikesville High Junior Play, an original parody using music from H.M.S.
- Pinafore and other Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Otts has an athletic history as well.
- He was a split end in the Development Football League from 1961 to 1964 with the Summit Park Colts Association (SPCA). He works regularly as an editor and ghostwriter for Kevin Anderson & Associates Inc.
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