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Name
  
Glen Berger


Role
  
Playwright

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Plays
  
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Underneath the Lintel

Awards
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in An Animated Program

Shows
  
Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, Peep and the Big Wide World

Nominations
  
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Animated Program

Similar
  
Julie Taymor, Bono, The Edge, Roberto Aguirre‑Sacasa, Eiko Ishioka

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Glen Berger is an American playwright.

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Berger has received commissions from the Children’s Theater of Minneapolis, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Alley Theatre, and the Lookingglass Theater. He recently co-wrote the book for a musical adaptation of Spider-Man, directed by Julie Taymor with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge of U2.

He is an alumnus of New Dramatists. He is currently working on a trilogy about America, psychedelics, and agriculture.

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Awards

  • Two Emmys (twelve Emmy nominations), writing over 100 episodes for children’s television series.
  • 1998 Ovation Award for Best Play, for Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22
  • A.S.K. Playwriting Award

    • Works

  • Underneath the Lintel, produced Off Broadway, 2003. Published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
  • The Wooden Breeks, produced at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York, 2006
  • O Lovely Glowworm, published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
  • Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22, published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
  • I Will Go... I Will Go...
  • On Words and Onwards (book & lyrics; music by Frank London)
  • A Night in the Old Marketplace (book & lyrics; music by Frank London)
  • Trepidation Nation, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, KY, 2003
  • Max & Ruby, Lucille Lortel Theatre, NY, 2007
  • Tales From The Faucet, And Other Stories, Soho Playhouse, NY, 2009
  • Darwinii: The Comeuppance of Man, with Brett Keyser. Nightjar Apothecary, 2009
  • Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Foxwoods Theatre, Broadway, 2010
  • Song of Spiderman - The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History by Glen Berger published by Simon & Schuster 2013

    • References

    Glen Berger Wikipedia
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