Glen Berger

GLEN BERGER has written award-winning plays and hundreds of episodes of children’s television, garnering two Emmys (twelve nominations) along the way. His plays include Underneath the Lintel (Over 500 productions in U.S. and abroad), O Lovely Glowworm, Great Men of Science, Nos. 21 & 22, and musicals A Night in the Old Marketplace (Loewe Award), composer Frank London of the Klezmatics, and August Rush (with composer Mark Mancina). He was the co-bookwriter for Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark on Broadway (directed by Julie Taymor with music by Bono and Edge of U2), which ran for three years. His memoir Song Of Spider-Man—the harrowing tale of Turn Off the Dark’s creation—was cited in numerous “Top Ten Books” lists for 2013. His television credits include more than 300 episodes for over a dozen children’s series, including Big and Small (BBC), Curious George (Universal), Muppet Babies (Disney), Peabody-award-winning Molly of Denali (PBS), and head-writer positions on Arthur (PBS), and Fetch with Ruff Ruffman (PBS). Since 2022, he has been the head-writer for U.K.-based Sooper Books, a children’s book company.