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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.