Glenn Slater
GLENN SLATER began writing for the theatre at age seventeen, with the off-Broadway production How I Survived High School(1986) and a stint at Harvard's legendary Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Perhaps best-known for writing the lyrics for Disney's animated Western, Home On The Range, with composer Alan Menken (April, 2004), Glenn's recent work also includes the lyrics for the Manhattan Theatre Club's Obie-Award-winning revue newyorkers (2001 Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), as well as the lyrics for the six editions of the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus. Upcoming projects include the Broadway adaptation of Disney's The Little Mermaid, as well as a musical based on the film Leap of Faith. With composer Stephen Weiner, his collaborator on newyorkers, he is currently penning a musical adaptation of the Coen Brothers' The Hudsucker Proxy. Glenn is the recipient of the Kleban Award for Lyrics (1996), as well as the ASCAP/Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award (2000). He is an alumnus of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, and a member of both ASCAP and the Dramatists' Guild. Glenn lives in Manhattan with his wife, composer/ lyricist Wendy Wilf, and son Benjamin. Bio as of September, 2008. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: American Theatre Wing Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient - 2005 Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)