Glen Knapp

Executive Producing Director

Glen Knapp is Executive Producing Director of Philadelphia Young Playwrights, celebrating twenty-one years of tapping the potential of youth and inspiring learning through playwriting. He is a senior lecturer in theater management at the University of the Arts and Temple University, member of the board of Scrap Performance Group, board member and two-term board chair of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and has served on the Leadership Committee for Arts Education for the School District of Philadelphia and the Arts Advisory Committee of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

Glen’s career in theater, arts administration and education spans twenty years. Prior to moving to Philadelphia from New York, Glen was acting executive director and director of external affairs for National Corporate Theatre Fund. He was previously director of development and communications at New York’s Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center and director of development at New York Theatre Workshop.

Over the years Glen has served as a consultant and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, the Arts and Business Councils of New York and Philadelphia and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

Glen has his bachelor’s degree in theater from UCLA and masters degree in theater administration from the School of Drama at Yale University. He was awarded a fellowship to the 2006 Executive Program for Nonprofit Arts Leaders by National Arts Strategies and the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and was recognized with a 2008 “Gimper Award for Outstanding Service” from Philadelphia’s Urban Education Fund.