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

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Life and career

Glatzer is a writer and producer for Seasons 2 and 3 of AMC's Better Call Saul.[1] He is a writer and supervising producer for Seasons 1 and 2 of HBO's Succession[2] created by Jesse Armstrong, and executive consultant for Season 3. In 2016/17, he served as executive producer and writer for Bliss, created by David Cross.[3] He was executive story editor for Bloodline on Netflix and wrote episodes 3,5 and 9 for their first season.[4] 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 Primetime Emmys,[5] and five WGA awards.[6][7] In 2013, his feature script FYNBOS, directed by Harry Patramanis opened the Slamdance Film Festival.[8][9] e . It was also on the programme for the Berlin Film Festival in February, 2013.[10] Glatzer's first feature film as director, co-writer and producer was What Goes Up. The film, starring Steve Coogan, Olivia Thirlby, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon and Josh Peck, is about a reporter and a group of dysfunctional high school students in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster.[11] It was released on May 29, 2009.[12][13] The film was distributed by Sony Pictures, with a DVD release on June 16, 2009 by Sony Home Entertainment.[14]

Jon grew up in north caldwell, NJ. Glatzer began his career in theater as a director, staging productions at such venues as the Oxford Playhouse in England, the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York.^{[citation needed]} He attended Colgate University[15] and graduated in 1991. He then attended Columbia University's Film School, where his short Prix Fixe won the school's best film award. [16] Glatzer has also worked as a writer for Touchstone Television and Fox, Warner Brothers, Good Machine and Industry Entertainment.^{[citation needed]} With Robert Lawson, he developed Tyler's Gap, a series for ABC Studios and Fox Television for which David Duchovny and Rob Bowman were executive producers.^{[citation needed]} In 2010, he directed a series of ads against California Proposition 23 (2010).[17] He is a screenwriting fellow at the MacDowell Colony and has taught workshops in writing, directing and acting at Georgetown University and Colgate University.^{[citation needed]}

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