The Man I Didn't Know
Leibert, Meighan
The Man I Didn't Know is a memoir inspired by my dad, Michael Williams Leibert, founder of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Two years after my birth, he brought a theater company to life with his natural gift for inspiring talented people and weaving magic on stage. When I was seventeen, he died of alcoholism, taking a part of me with him.
Ignoring my past didn't make the pain go away. Thirty-two years after my dad's death, I revisit what I...
