John Glines Biography (1933-)
Addresses: Home: 28 Willow Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
Creator/writer, Sesame Street Cassette for Omni Game, Milton Bradley.
"Torch Song Trilogy teaches indirectly; Sesame Street directly;and both entertain in a highly original way. I believe that when you can combine enlightenment and entertainment in a daring and original way, you have something worth devoting your heart and soul to."
- Nationality
- American
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- producer, playwright, actor
- Birth Details
- October 11, 1933
- Santa Maria, California
Famous Works
- Non-Theatrical Career
- Contract Supervisor, CBS News, 1959-60.
- Debut
- Actor/Producer, The Comedy Theatre, Oakland, CA, 1956.
- New York Debut
- Richard Hare & Lord Mount Severin, East Lynne, Theatre East, 1959.
- Produced: Plays
- (also composed) Gulp!, NY, 1977; Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, Actors Playhouse, NY, 1980-81; Executive Producer/Artistic Director, TheGlines, Inc., productions including: Torch Song Trilogy, A Loss of Memory,Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, My Blue Heaven, A Perfect Relationship, Forever After, T-Shirts, Niagra Falls, Newsboy, If This Isn't Love, Iolanthe, Pines '79, 1976-present; Torch Song Trilogy, Helen Hayes (Little), 1982.
- Plays, Published
- In the Desert of My Soul, Best Short Plays of 1976, Dramatist PlayService;
- Plays, Produced
- author/composer/lyricist, God Bless Coney, Orpheum, New York, 1972; composer, Gulp!, 1977.
- Television Shows
- Staff Writer, Captain Kangaroo, 1965-71; staff writer, Sesame Street, 1978-81.