Jonathan Glatzer is an American writer, director, and producer. He is a writer and producer for Seasons 2 and 3 of AMC's Better Call Saul. He is a writer and supervising producer for Seasons 1 and 2 of HBO's Succession created by Jesse Armstrong. In 2016/17, he served as executive producer and writer for Bliss, created by David Cross. He was executive story editor for Bloodline on Netflix and wrote episodes 3, 5 and 9 for their first season.. Along with his fellow writers, he's received a Peabody, Golden Globe and a WGA award and has been nominated for two Primetime Emmys] and five WGA awards. In 2013, his feature script FYNBOS, directed by Harry Patramanis, opened the Slamdance Film Festival. It was also on the programm for the Berlin Film Festival in February, 2013. Glatzer's first feature film as director, co-writer and producer was What Goes Up. The film, starring Steve Coogan, Olivia Thirlby, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon and Josh Peck, is about a reporter and a group of dysfunctional high school students in the aftermath of the Challenger disaster. It was released in 2009.
Glatzer began his career in theater as a director, staging productions at such venues as the Oxford Playhouse in England, the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. He attended Colgate University and graduated in 1991. He then attended Columbia University's Film School, where his short Prix Fixe won the school's best film award. Glatzer has also worked as a writer for Touchstone Television and Fox, Warner Brothers, Good Machine and Industry Entertainment. With Robert Lawson, he developed Tyler's Gap, a series for ABC Studios and Fox Television for which David Duchovny and Rob Bowman were executive producer. In 2010, he directed a series of ads against California Proposition 23. He is a screenwriting fellow at MacDowell and has taught workshops in writing, directing and acting at Georgetown University and Colgate University.
