Gordon Greenberg is currently co-writing (with Kirsten Childs) and directing a new musical for Disney Creative Entertainment and is the co-writer and director of Band Geeks, a new musical for Goodspeed Musicals 2010 season. He recently directed and adapted (with Stephen Schwartz and Lin Manuel Miranda) Studs Terkel’s Working for the Old Globe in San Diego and will direct it for Nederlander Broadway In Chicago in 2010.
He co-conceived, adapted (with Nell Benjamin) and directed a new adaptation of Pirates of Penzance, entitled Pirates! Or Gilbert and Sullivan Plunder’d for the Huntington in Boston, Goodspeed Musicals, and Paper Mill Playhouse. It is currently being developed for Broadway by Hal Luftig and Fox Theatricals. He directed and created new translations for the acclaimed Off-Broadway revival of Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well… at the Zipper Theatre (Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Award noms), and directed and redeveloped (with Garry Marshall and Paul Williams) the new musical Happy Days, which recently finished its first year of a U.S. National Tour for Bob Boyett Theatricals.
He has directed and developed new musicals and reconceived productions for the past decade in New York, London and throughout the U.S. including the recent acclaimed revival of 1776 for Paper Mill Playhouse, The Citizens Band’s The Panic Is On at New York’s Spiegeltent, The Baker’s Wife by Stephen Schwartz and Joe Stein (Paper Mill, Goodspeed), Cam Jansen by Larry O’Keefe & Nell Benjamin (Theatreworks USA), the National Tours of Peter Pan (Big League) and The Mystery of King Tut by Mindy Dickstein and Hem’s Dan Messe (Theatreworks USA); Breaking Up is Hard To Do by Neil Sedaka (Harbor Entertainment), as well as numerous television commercials and industrials.
He created Broadway’s education program, Broadway Classroom and is currently Co-Artistic Director of the Broadway Teachers Workshop. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Stanford University, NYU Film School and is a member of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab.
