Biography of Gladden Schrock

Gladden Schrock is a playwright, novelist, essayist, actor, director, and teacher from Indiana. He wrote the plays "Madam Popov," "Taps," and "Glutt"-the latter two produced together on a double bill as "Two for the Silence." He also wrote the novel "Letters from Alf," which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1973, and the short story "Fragments of a Killdeer," which was originally published in the Massachusetts Review. Schrock was a founding member of the Acting Company and Playwrights Unit at the Long Wharf Theatre and was the first playwright-in-residence at the Yale School of Drama, where received his MFA in Playwriting. He founded the theatre department at Hampshire College and taught for several years at the prestigious liberal arts institution Bennington College. He made his film debut in Debra Eisenstadt's award-winning film "Daydream Believer." He has spent a great deal of his career writing award-winning op-ed pieces on the subject of contemporary hysteria. He lives in Maine.