Title: Rent (musical)
Content:  Rent (stylized as RENT) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village in the thriving days of bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in a workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. This same off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official 1996 opening. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly of an aortic dissection, believed 
Title: Rent (film)
Content:  Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of the 1996 Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera La Bohème. The film, which features six of the original Broadway cast members reprising their roles, depicts the lives of several Bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, paying their rent, and life under the shadow of AIDS in the gritty East Village of New York City from 1989 to 1990.
Title: Rent (film)
Content: Aaron Lohr as Steve ; Daniel London as Paul ; Wayne Wilcox as Gordon ; Chris Chalk as Street Vendor ; Mackenzie Firgens as April ; Corey Rosen as Cafe Manager ; Shaun Earl as Waiter ; Rod Arrants as Mr. Hansen ; Mike Garibaldi as Mr. Grey ; Jennifer Siebel Newsom as Receptionist ; Sarah Silverman as Alexi Darling ; Daryl Edwards as Mr. Jefferson ; Anna Deavere Smith as Mrs. Jefferson ; Kevin Blackton as Mr. Johnson ; Bettina Devin as Mrs. Johnson ; Joel Swetow as Mr. Cohen ; Randy Graff as Mrs. Cohen 
Title: Rent (musical)
Content:  Jeffrey Schwarz directed this 2006 documentary about the musical Rent, from Jonathan Larson's original idea to his tragic passing and, finally, to the adaptation of Rent into a major motion picture. The nearly two-hour documentary was included in a two-disc special edition of the DVD release of the 2005 film.
Title: Rent (film)
Content: Anthony Rapp as Mark Cohen, a struggling Jewish filmmaker and Roger's roommate. He was dumped by Maureen for Joanne. ; Adam Pascal as Roger Davis, an HIV-positive ex-addict rock musician; Mimi's love interest. ; Rosario Dawson as Mimi Marquez, an HIV-positive heroin addict and stripper; Roger's love interest. ; Jesse L. Martin as Thomas B. "Tom" Collins, an anarchist and gay philosophy professor with AIDS; former roommate of Maureen, Roger, Mark, and Benny; Angel's love interest. ; Wilson Jermaine Heredia as Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen and street musician who is suffering from AIDS; Collins' love interest. ; Idina Menzel as Maureen Johnson, a bisexual performance artist and Joanne's girlfriend; Mark's ex-girlfriend. ; Tracie Thoms as Joanne Jefferson, a lesbian Harvard-graduate lawyer and Maureen's love interest. ; Taye Diggs as Benjamin "Benny" Coffin, III, landlord of the building in which Mark, Roger, and Mimi live and ex-roommate of Collins, Roger, Maureen, and Mark. 
Title: Rent-A-Pal
Content:  Rent-A-Pal is a 2020 American thriller film written and directed by Jon Stevenson, produced by J.D. Lifshitz, Brian Landis Folkins, Jon Stevenson, Annie Elizabeth Baker, Jimmy Weber, Robert B. Martin Jr., Brandon Fryman and Raphael Margules. It stars Wil Wheaton, Brian Landis Folkins, Kathleen Brady, Amy Rutledge, Adrian Egolf. Rent-A-Pal was released on September 11, 2020 by IFC Midnight, and received positive reviews from critics.
Title: The Rental
Content:  The Rental is a 2020 American horror film written, produced and directed by Dave Franco, in his feature directorial debut. Franco co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Swanberg from a story by Franco, Swanberg, and Mike Demski. It stars Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White, and Toby Huss, and follows two couples who begin to suspect they are being watched in the house they rented. The film was released on video-on-demand and in select theaters in the United States on July 24, 2020, by IFC Films. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and became the second film to ever top video-on-demand (VOD) charts and the box office in the same weekend.
Title: Rent (musical)
Content: Broadway (1996–2008) ; Mark: Matt Caplan, Joey Fatone, Christopher Hanke, Adam Kantor, Drew Lachey, Tony Vincent, Sebastian Arcelus (u/s), Richard H. Blake (u/s), Norbert Leo Butz (u/s), Will Chase (u/s), Luther Creek (u/s), Colin Hanlon (u/s), Chad Richardson (u/s) ; Roger: Sebastian Arcelus, Declan Bennett, Richard H. Blake, Norbert Leo Butz, Will Chase, Luther Creek, Tim Howar, Jeremy Kushnier, Colin Hanlon (u/s), Chad Richardson (u/s), Tony Vincent (u/s) ; Mimi: Mel B, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Tamyra Gray, Marcy Harriell, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Antonique Smith, Lorraine Vélez, Karen Olivo (u/s), Shayna Steele (u/s) ; Tom Collins: Troy Horne, Michael McElroy ; Angel: Wilson Cruz, Jose Llana, Jai Rodriguez, Telly Leung (u/s), Andy Señor Jr. (u/s) ; Maureen: Carla Bianco, Jessica Boevers, Eden Espinosa, Kelly Karbacz, Tamara Podemski, Sherie Rene Scott, Karen Olivo (u/s), Antonique Smith (u/s) ; Joanne: Natalie Venetia Belcon, Merle Dandridge, Tracie Thoms, Frenchie Davis (u/s), Shayna Steele (u/s) ; Benny: Rodney Hicks 
Title: Rent (musical)
Content:  Larson's inspiration for Rents content came from several different sources. Many of the characters and plot elements are drawn directly from Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème, the world premiere of which was in 1896, a century before Rents premiere. La Bohème was also about the lives of poor young artists. Tuberculosis, the plague of Puccini's opera, is replaced by HIV/AIDS in Rent; 1800s Paris is replaced by New York's East Village in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The names and identities of Rents characters also heavily reflect Puccini's original characters, though they are not all direct adaptations. For example, Joanne in 
Title: Rent Control (1984 film)
Content:  Leonard Junger tries to find a rent-controlled New York City apartment, and to interest various women.

Question: Who is the author of Rent?
Answer: Jonathan Larson.
Jonathan David Larson.