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Born December 26,1940 during a snowstorm, Norman Schreiber grew up in Brooklyn (near Ebbets Field). His parents were Ben, a knitter, and Emily, a dry cleaner manager. He first worked as an usher at the Patio Movie Theater. He claims that starting his shift in the middle of a movie and seeing that film out of sequence affected his story sense. While in Erasmus Hall High School, he became interested in theater. He got his start as a young playwright at the Actors Repertory Theater (ART). There he trained with Samson Raphaelson and Group Theater alumnus Wendell K. Phillips. Two of his plays were produced at the ART, and he acted in a production of Moliere's "Imaginary Invalid." He also studied with director Gene Frankel. Norman was a theater major at Brooklyn College where he acted, directed and wrote. Oddly enough, he was not cast in director Robert Downey, Sr's "Putney Swope" because of this background. The two met because of a magazine article Schreiber was writing about the filmmaker. Downey thought Schreiber looked right for the part of the "funny-looking Messenger" in the screenplay the director was working on. Schreiber's last foray into the performing arts was "Testify," a musical in collaboration with Grammy nominee Eugene McDaniels and Ed Cory. Since that time, Schreiber has written many magazine articles, three books (including comic mystery "Out Of Order") and is the editor of Vegetarian Gazette.