Gordon Greenberg

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

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 currently serves as Artistic Director of the Broadway Teachers Workshop. and Artistic Associate at The New Group.

Gordon Greenberg (born July 7, 1969) is a stage director, a theater and television writer, and an Artistic Associate at The New Group.

Greenberg is currently adapting The Secret Of My Success into a stage musical for Universal Pictures, co-writing an original movie musical for Nickelodeon called Emerald City Music Hall and another for The Disney Channel currently titled Scramble Band, with Michael Weiner, writing a new musical updating Jane Austen's Emma to the Helen Gurley Brown 1960s New York, The Single Girls Guide which he developed at Seattle Fifth Avenue Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Ars Nova, Goodspeed Musicals, ASCAP and a developmental production at Capital Rep and then NAMT. He is co-writing Port-Au-Prince as a NYSCA commission for The New Group with Kirsten Childs.

Greenberg directed the Broadway adaptation of Irving Berlin's film Holiday Inn. Greenberg also co-wrote the adaptation (with Chad Hodge). Produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company and Universal Pictures Stage Productions, the show was well received by critics, with Variety noting that "the 1942 film has gotten a complete and first-class stage redo [...] turning this shaky fixer-upper into prime property."

His other work includes Johnny Baseball at Williamstown Theatre Festival, a workshop of a newly revised Rags for Roundabout Theatre Company, Pirates!, or Gilbert & Sullivan Plunder'd, conceived with Nell Benjamin and John McDaniel; the U.S. national tour of Guys & Dolls, Floyd Collins for Signature Theatre, Stars of David based on Abby Pogrebin's book for producer Daryl Roth, Farewell My Concubine (China) and several television projects, and 1776 for Paper Mill Playhouse. He co-wrote and directed the show Band Geeks [1] [2] for Goodspeed Musicals, supported by grants from the NEA and NAMT. He worked with Kirsten Childs on Disney's Believe, a new musical for Disney Creative Entertainment, the launch show for the Disney Fantasy with Neil Patrick Harris and Jerry Seinfeld, the U.S. National tour of Happy Days (by Garry Marshall); and worked extensively with Stephen Schwartz and Joseph Stein to revise The Baker's Wife in a critically acclaimed production at Paper Mill Playhouse starring Alice Ripley,. Further work includes Half a Sixpence, the South African-inspired production of Jesus Christ Superstar, the U.S. National tour of Peter Pan, We The People: America Rocks at the off-Broadway Lucille Lortel Theater, and contemporary dramas including 33 Variations.