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John Glines
(October 11, 1933 - living) U.S.A.

John Glines

Brodway producer

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Born in Santa Maria, California, John Glines graduated from Yale in 1955 with a BA in drama.

Theatrical producer and children's TV writer (7 years for Captain Kangaroo, 3 years for Sesame Street) who won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards in 1983 as producer of the play Torch Song Trilogy; when accepting his Tony, Glines became the first person ever to acknowledge his same-sex lover on a major awards show.

John Glines won the Tony and Drama Desk Awards in 1983 as producer of Torch Song Trilogy, won the Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination in 1985 as producer of As Is, and won the Drama Desk Award in 1994 for Whoop-dee-doo!. As artistic director and co-founder of The Glines, the country's oldest producer of gay theater, he has been a major force in the acceptance of the gay experience as valid material of creative expression.

His play In the Desert of My Soul was anthologized in Best Short Plays of 1976, and his musical Gulp! was the longest running Off-Off Broadway production of 1977. His latest play, Butterflies and Tigers, about the Chinese people during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, just closed after a four month run on Theatre Row.

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His plays include:

  • On Tina Tuna Walk
  • In Her Own Words (a Biography of Jane Chambers)
  • Men of Manhattan
  • Chicken Delight
  • Body and Soul
  • Murder in Disguise
  • Key West
  • Heavenly Days
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