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Glen Berger

Glen Berger launched his playwriting career in earnest as a member of Annex Theatre in Seattle. He spent a decade in New York and now lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two children. He is a fifth-year member of New Dramatists. His plays include...

Biography

Glen Berger launched his playwriting career in earnest as a member of Annex Theatre in Seattle. He spent a decade in New York and now lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife and two children. He is a fifth-year member of New Dramatists. His plays include: Underneath the Lintel (Over 450 performances Off-Broadway, 2001 Ovation Award (Los Angeles) and 2003 Sterling Award (Edmonton) for Best Play, and one of Time Out New York's Ten Best Plays of 2001, productions in over 55 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; 2002 BugNBub Primary Stages Award), the musical A Night In The Old Marketplace, (Loewe Award), 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 On Words And Onwards (Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation Fellowship). Mr. Berger has received commissions from the Children's Theatre of Minneapolis and the Lookingglass Theatre, was selected for the 2003 Old Vic/New Voices program, participated in the 2001 A.S.K. Playwrights Retreat, and was playwright-in-residence at New York Stage & Film. He has written several episodes for the PBS children's series Arthur, (for which he was nominated for two Emmys), its spin-off Postcards From Buster (Emmy nomination), Time Warp Trio (NBC), Peep (The Learning Channel), and is the head writer for Fetch (PBS).

Plays by Glen Berger

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