The year is 1998 the bitter cold of the Toronto winter has frozen windshields, and driveways, and six year olds.  I’m sitting in the back seat of an ancient two door toyota as my dad finishes using a cassette tape case to scrape a large enough hole in the front window frost.  The car is on, the heat won’t really kick in until we’re already on the QEW.  But I don’t care about the heat.  I don’t care about getting to school.  As soon as my dad gets in the car.  Even before he has his mittens off I’m already asking him to put in the tape. He slides it in, turns the volume up higher than the defroster fan. And I’m no longer shivering in the back of the car. I’m having a beautiful morning on the fields of Oklahoma, I’m picking a racing horse on the streets of New York, I’m setting off into the woods. My love of musical theater began on those snowy drives to school and it has never left me.

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   My name is Benjamin Glatt, I was born May the 9th 1992 in Toronto Canada.  I attended elementary school in Ontario then moved to the US for Highschool and university. I graduated with a Masters in Education from the Marlboro Graduate school in 2012.  Since graduation I have worked in education all over the world.  I taught in McGrath Alaska.  I was the humanities department chair of the Majestic International College in Foshan China. I have also taught in several private schools in Ontario. 

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   While teaching I have worked on a variety of artistic pursuits from copper enameling to woodworking.  But my true artistic love and passion has always been writing. I have written several novels and dozens of short stories and collaborated with songwriters as lyricists on many occasions.  In 2021 I got the opportunity to return to my beloved musical theater when my father Dr. Lawrence Glatt asked me to write a musical with him.  That show, Myranda’s Quill, was an eye opening experience. It allowed me to write for a medium I have always loved, to write lyrics and scripts that interwove to create a story more poignant than either could be on their own. It was magic seeing what we had written, produced on stage.

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   In 2022/23 we wrote another musical Roll of Lifetime, a show about table tops games and finding a way to say goodbye and in 2023 as I write these words we are working on two more with several ideas waiting in the wings. 

It is my sincere hope that in a few years from now.  A kid in the back of a car will ask their dad to hit play on the phone.  That the musicals I co-wrote will bring that magic into their lives that musical theater has always brought into mine.