Glen Berger

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Glen Berger’s plays include: Underneath the Lintel (Over 450 performances Off-Broadway, Ovation Award (Los Angeles), Sterling Award (Edmonton), and Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Best Play, Garland Award for Best Playwriting, and one of Time Out New York’s Ten Best Plays of 2001, productions in over 65 cities in 8 countries), THE WOODEN BREEKS (nominated for Best Writing by the L.A. Weekly, 2001), O LOVELY GLOWWORM (2005 Portland Drammy Award Winner for Best Script), GREAT MEN OF SCIENCE, NOS. 21 & 22 (1998 Ovation Award and 1998 L.A. Weekly Award for Best Play), I WILL GO…I WILL GO (published in Applause Book’s 2001 Best Short Plays Anthology), and the musicals [book and lyrics] ON WORDS AND ONWARDS (Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation Fellowship), A NIGHT IN THE OLD MARKETPLACE, (Loewe Award), and [book] MAX AND RUBY (Theatreworks). Glen has received commissions from the Children’s Theatre of Minneapolis, Berkeley Rep, the Alley Theatre, and the Lookingglass Theatre. He is currently writing the musical SPIDER-MAN, directed by Julie Taymor with music by Bono and Edge of U2. Many of his plays are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

He is a sixth-year member of New Dramatists. He is currently working on a trilogy about America, psychedelics, and agriculture.

In television, Glen has received six Emmy nominations, writing over 75 episodes for children’s television series including ARTHUR (P B S), its spin-off POSTCARDS FROM BUSTER (P B S), TIME WARP TRIO (N B C/Discovery) , PEEP (Discovery/The Learning Channel), and FETCH (P B S), for which he is beginning his third year as head writer.