- Date Of Birth: February 6, 1937
- Date Of Death: January 3, 2021
- Spouse: Ruth Maleczech (m. 1978; died 2013) Maude Mitchell (m. 2015)
- Occupation: Playwright, theater director, academic, educator, filmmaker, poet, and lyricist
- City: New York City
- State: New York
Esser Leopold Breuer (February 6, 1937 – January 3, 2021) was an American playwright, theater director, academic, educator, filmmaker, poet, and lyricist. Breuer taught and directed on six continents.
Breuer was born in Philadelphia. He studied English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Breuer married Maleczech in 1978. They had two children (Clove Galilee and Lute Breuer) and remained legally married until her death in 2013, but spent much of the latter period separated; Breuer also had three children (Alexander Tiappa Klimovitsky, Mojo Lorwin and Wah Mohn) from other relationships. Ms. Mitchell and Mr. Breuer met in 1999 at Sundance Theater Lab and became partners; they married in 2015. In addition to her, he is survived by his daughter, Clove Galilee; his sons, Lute Ramblin Breuer, Alexander Tiappa Klimovitsky, Mojo Lorwin and Wah Mohn; daughters-in-law Jenny Rogers and Martha Elliot and three grandchildren.
All of Mr. Breuer’s children grew up to be artists. Like their mothers — Ms. Maleczech, Ms. Klimovitskaya, Ms. Lorwin and Leslie Mohn, who died in 2007 — all have collaborated with him.
Breuer died at his home in Brooklyn Heights on January 3, 2021, at age 83. – Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License from Wikipedia.
