Carl Glick (1890-1971) was an American author and play and theater director. He was born on September 11, 1890 in Marshalltown, Iowa, the son of Charles Glick and Myra (Cannon) Gli...ver másCarl Glick (1890-1971) was an American author and play and theater director. He was born on September 11, 1890 in Marshalltown, Iowa, the son of Charles Glick and Myra (Cannon) Glick. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1915 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Glick began his career as an actor with Donald Robertson Players at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1909-1910, and joined the Tour in Shakespearian repertoire from 1910-1911. This was followed by various positions as a drama teacher and theater director in Kansas and Iowa, before he focused on writing full-time in New York between 1920-1923.
Glick joined the University of Colorado in 1923, where he served as an instructor in English and director of the Players Club. He then served as assistant professor of English at the University of Montana and director of Montana Masquers. In 1927, Glick moved to San Antonio, Texas, where he was Director of the Little Theater until 1931. He turned to writing again full-time in New York from 1931-1938, intermittent by stints in Florida, Pennsylvania and South Carolinas a theatre director.
Glick also wrote a regular column on community theaters for the Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican from 1931-1940. He served as playwriting instructor in the general education division of New York University from 1943-1955, before joining the California Western University in San Diego, where he first worked as a drama teacher and then became a retired assistant professor from 1961. Glick was Chairman of the Institute of Theatre at the Mohawk Drama Festival in Schenectady, New York in 1940 and then served on the Committee of Community Theatres for National Drama Week, Drama League of America, from 1940.
He was the co-author of the book Curtains Going Up (1939) with Albert McCleery.
Glick died on March 8, 1971, aged 80.ver menos