Playwright

Glen
Berger

Glen Berger’s plays include the award-winning Underneath the Lintel, O Lovely Glowworm (2005 Portland Drammy Award Winner for Best Script) and Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22 (Ovation Award and LA Weekly Award for Best Play). He wrote the book and lyrics for the musicals On Words and Onwards (Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation Fellowship) and A Night in the Old Marketplace (Loewe Award) with composer Frank London. His television credits include two Emmy Awards and more than 150 episodes for children’s series, including Arthur and FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman. Berger is the bookwriter and co-lyricist for the Broadway-bound adaptation of August Rush (with composer Mark Mancina), and was the co-bookwriter for Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark on Broadway (directed by Julie Taymor with music by Bono and The Edge of U2). His memoir Song of Spider-Man was published by Simon & Schuster in 2013. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists.