Jonathan Glatzer (born 21 October 1969) is an American writer, director, and producer.

Life and career

Glatzer is a writer and producer for Seasons 2 and 3 of AMC's ''

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''. He is a writer and supervising producer for Seasons 1 and 2 of HBO's ''Succession'' created by

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, and executive consultant for Season 3. In 2016/17, he served as executive producer and writer for Bliss, created by

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. He was executive story editor for

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on Netflix and wrote episodes 3,5 and 9 for their first season. Along with his fellow writers, he's received a Primetime Emmy Award, two Peabody Awards, a Golden Globe and a WGA award and has been nominated for two

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, and five WGA awards. In 2013, his feature script FYNBOS, directed by Harry Patramanis opened the Slamdance Film Festival. e . It was also on the programme for the Berlin Film Festival in February, 2013. Glatzer's first feature film as director, co-writer and producer was ''What Goes Up''. The film, starring

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, Olivia Thirlby,

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, Molly Shannon and Josh Peck, is about a reporter and a group of dysfunctional high school students in the aftermath of the ''Challenger'' disaster. It was released on May 29, 2009. The film was distributed by Sony Pictures, with a DVD release on June 16, 2009 by Sony Home Entertainment. Jon grew up in north caldwell, NJ. Glatzer began his career in theater as a director, staging productions at such venues as the

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in England, the

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in Washington, D.C., and the

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in New York. He attended

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and graduated in 1991. He then attended

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's Film School, where his short ''Prix Fixe'' won the school's best film award. Glatzer has also worked as a writer for Touchstone Television and Fox, Warner Brothers, Good Machine and Industry Entertainment. With Robert Lawson, he developed ''Tyler's Gap'', a series for

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and Fox Television for which

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and Rob Bowman were executive producers. In 2010, he directed a series of ads against California Proposition 23 (2010). He is a screenwriting fellow at the

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and has taught workshops in writing, directing and acting at

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and

References

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