- Will Glickman
Will Glickman was an American
playwright who frequently collaborated withJoseph Stein .Glickman made his Broadway debut in 1948 with sketches he and Stein wrote for the
revue "Lend an Ear ". The two went on to collaborate on "Mrs. Gibbons' Boys ", "Alive and Kicking", "Mr. Wonderful ", "The Body Beautiful ", and "Plain and Fancy ", which proved to be their biggest success, garnering a Tony nomination for Best Musical.Glickman's
television credits include adaptations of "The Desert Song " and "The Chocolate Soldier ". He also wrote scripts for "TheDuPont Show of the Month" and "The United States Steel Hour ", and collaborated withFred Saidy andNeil Simon , among others, on "Satins and Spurs", an original musical forBetty Hutton , which was broadcast byNBC in September 1954.The Will Glickman Award, administered by the Will Glickman Foundation and Theatre Bay Area, has been bestowed since 1984. The annual award, presented to the author of the best play to make its world premiere in the
San Francisco Bay Area , comes with a $4,000 check. Past winners includeDenis Johnson andTony Kushner [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/01/25/DDGPTGS1KR1.DTL] [http://www.theatrebayarea.org/mag/article.jsp;jsessionid=A13008CBC303A41B92484A734F5CC8DD?thispage=archives.jsp&id=165&hi=1] .External links
* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=9072 Internet Broadway Database entry]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322817/ Internet Movie Database entry]
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