Artist Profile
John Glore is the Associate Artistic Director of South Coast Repertory (SCR). He is an award-winning playwright whose stage adaptations of works for young audiences include Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time, which debuted at SCR in 2010 and has since moved on to numerous productions nationwide; Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales, which had its professional premiere at the Coterie Theatre and has since had dozens of productions nationwide, including at the Chance; Laura Amy Schlitz’s The Night Fairy, whose SCR premiere was directed by Oanh Nguyen; Kate DiCamillo’s Flora & Ulysses; and Abby Hanlon’s Dory Fantasmagory. Other plays for young audiences include Wind of a Thousand Tales, Folktales Too, Rhubarb Jam, and The Day After Evermore. His plays for adults include On the Jump (produced by SCR and Arena Stage in Washington D.C.), The Company of Heaven, Preludes and Fugues, and City Sky (a scenario for a dance piece). With the performance trio Culture Clash he has co-authored adaptations of two plays by Aristophanes, The Birds and Peace. In addition to the theatres already named, his work has been produced at Berkeley Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Round House Theatre, The Children’s Theatre Company, First Stage, Childsplay, Oregon Children’s Theatre, the Getty Villa, Imagination Stage in Washington, D.C. and many others. He received a 2000 Playwrights Fellowship from the California Arts Council and has occasionally taught playwriting and related subjects at UCLA and Pomona College.