Education

Greenberg attended Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

 and NYU Film School Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts

Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University ....

, as well as The Lincoln Center Directors Lab, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and Stagedoor Manor

Stagedoor Manor

Stagedoor Manor is a performing arts summer camp located in Loch Sheldrake, New York. Over the past 36 years, it has trained thousands of young actors, many of whom have gone on to success in film, television, and theatre....

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Career

Greenberg has directed, created and produced musicals, including the acclaimed revised production of Working

Working (musical)

Working is a musical with a book by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, music by Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, and James Taylor, and lyrics by Schwartz, Carnelia, Grant, Taylor, and Susan Birkenhead....

 (with Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Schwartz (composer)

Stephen Lawrence Schwartz is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell , Pippin and Wicked...

 and Lin-Manuel Miranda at the Broadway in Chicago

Broadway In Chicago

Broadway In Chicago is a theatrical production company. It was formed in July 2000 by the Nederlander Organization to present touring Broadway productions in Chicago and to operate four theaters in downtown Chicago.-Theaters:...

 Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower , the Old Globe in San Diego; ; Asolo Repertory Theatre

Asolo Repertory Theatre

The Asolo Repertory Theatre or Asolo Rep is a professional theater in Sarasota, Florida. It is the largest Equity theatre in Florida, and the largest Repertory theatre in the Southeastern United States. Asolo Rep is a resident regional theatre company which also invites in guest artists...

); the revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris is an American musical revue of the songs of Jacques Brel.-Original Off-Broadway Production:...

 (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Drama League noms); and conceived Pirates!, or Gilbert & Sullivan Plunder'd with Nell Benjamin and John McDaniel; Half a Sixpence; Happy Days (with Garry Marshall

Garry Marshall

Garry Kent Marshall is an American actor, director, writer and producer. His notable credits include creating Happy Days and The Odd Couple and directing Nothing In Common, Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride, Valentine's Day, and The Princess Diaries.-Early life:Marshall was born in the New York City...

); The Baker's Wife; 1776; Jesus Christ Superstar; Peter Pan (national tour); and contemporary dramas, including Of Blessed Memory (King's Head Theatre); Immaculate Misconception by Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi

Carl Djerassi is an Austrian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill . Djerassi is emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University.He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E...

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Greenberg co-wrote the show Band Geeks http://www.goodspeed.org/show_detail.aspx?id=2126 http://ct.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo_Flash_Goodspeeds_BAND_GEEKS_20100514 for Goodspeed Musicals

Goodspeed Musicals

Goodspeed Musicals, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of musical theater and the creation of new works, was formed in 1959 to restore the Goodspeed Opera House, located in East Haddam, Connecticut, to its original Victorian appearance. Each year, Goodspeed...

 and is currently writing a television pilot for Davis Entertainment and a new musical entitled THE BOOK OF LOVE based on Emma

Emma

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively 'comedy of manners' among...

. He has appeared in the Broadway productions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name....

; Grease (musical)

Grease (musical)

Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as the greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School , follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love,...

; The Little Prince and the Aviator

The Little Prince and the Aviator

The Little Prince and the Aviator is a musical with a book by Hugh Wheeler, lyrics by Don Black, and music by John Barry.Based on the classic book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the musical deviates from the original in that aviator Toni, whose plane crashes in the Sahara Desert, explicitly is...

; and Off-Broadway in Peacetime; Names; City Suite; Show Me Where the Good Times Are

Show Me Where the Good Times Are

Show Me Where the Good Times Are is a musical comedy by Leonora Thuna. Inspired by Molière's The Imaginary Invalid, the play transplants the setting to the Lower East Side in 1913.-Summary:...

; and on television in Shaky Ground

Shaky Ground

Shaky Ground was a TV sitcom created by Bob Keyes, Chip Keyes & Doug Keyes, which starred Matt Frewer as Bob Moody, a hapless, but supportive and caring father. Robin Riker played his wife and Matthew Brooks, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Bradley Pierce played their children...

, Knots Landing

Knots Landing

Knots Landing is an American primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27, 1979 to May 13, 1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered on the lives of four married couples living in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle...

, Living Single

Living Single

Living Single is an American television sitcom which aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 29, 1993 to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who share personal and professional experiences while living in a Brooklyn brownstone.Throughout its run, Living...

, Step By Step (TV series); and on film in New York City Serenade, directed by Frank Whaley

Frank Whaley

Frank Joseph Whaley is an American film and television actor known for his roles in independent films.-Personal life:Whaley was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Josephine and Robert W. Whaley, Sr. He is half-Irish and half-Sicilian and grew up in Syracuse. He has two sisters and an older...

 (with Todd Barry

Todd Barry

-Biography:Barry was born in The Bronx, New York, and grew up in Florida. In 1999, his Comedy Central Presents aired. He wrote, directed and starred in the short film Borrowing Saffron , which co-starred H. Jon Benjamin. He has made a variety of guest appearances on shows like Dr...

).

Greenberg produced and directed commercials for J.Walter Thompson from 1991 to 1993. He served as the Artistic Director of Musical Theatre Works in New York City from 1997 to 2000, and he currently serves as Artistic Director of the Broadway Teachers Workshop.

Current projects

Greenberg is currently co-creating and directing "Disney's Believe," a new musical for Disney Creative Entertainment with Kirsten Childs.

He is also the director of the new musical "We The People: America Rocks," written by Joe Iconis

Joe Iconis

Joseph Peter Philip Iconis is an American musical theatre writer. He is a graduate of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. He is a recipient of the 2006 Jonathan Larson Award, the 2007 Ed Kleban Award, and a Backstage Bistro Award. His innovative rock musical...

, Brad Alexander, Kevin Del Aguila, Eli Bolin, Sam Forman, Tommy Newman, Ryan Scott Oliver

Ryan Scott Oliver

Ryan Scott Oliver is a musical theatre composer and lyricist. He is the recipient of both the 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant and the 2008 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater. He received his B.A. in Music Composition from UCLA and his M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing from the Tisch School of...

, Adam Overett, Erik Weiner, Mark Weiner, and Jordan Allen-Dutton. It is being choreographed by Michele Lynch, and the music is directed and arranged by J. Oconer Navarro. The show's associate director is Wes Grantom and the shows assistant director is Adam Quinn. The show stars actors, Badia Farha, Abe Goldfarb, F. Michael Haynie, Jamie LaVerdiere, Colin Campbell McAdoo, Justin Flagg and Brittany N. Williams. It is scheduled to open at the off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Theater.

Greenberg is scheduled to direct and/or write, "Ben Folds Project (The Producing Office)," "Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel

Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...

 (West End London 2011)," "Working

Working (musical)

Working is a musical with a book by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, music by Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Micki Grant, Mary Rodgers, and James Taylor, and lyrics by Schwartz, Carnelia, Grant, Taylor, and Susan Birkenhead....

 (Broadway In Chicago 2011)," "33 Variations

33 Variations

33 Variations is a play by Moisés Kaufman, inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven's eponymous work. It débuted on Broadway on March 9, 2009, starring Jane Fonda...

 (Capital Rep)," "The Man Plan, Farewell My Concubine (China)" and several television projects.

Quotes

Greenberg has noted that "I’d had a long-standing love for Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan . The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S...

. Gilbert and Sullivan, in their day, were the Saturday Night Live or the Jon Stewarts, the social and political satirists that people looked to for a good laugh."

On re-working Working, Greenberg said: "Stephen [Schwartz] gave me free rein to go back to the original book. So I brought him a big stack of index cards and I spread them all out over his living room and I said, 'How about this?' And then he reshuffled them and said, 'How about that.' And I reshuffled them, again and said, 'How about this and that?'"

External links

• http://broadwayteachersworkshop.com/about-us/
• http://huntingtontheatre.org/season/0809/pirates/interview.pdf
• http://musicalschwartz.com/working-reworked.htm
• http://www.gordongreenberg.com/