Glenn Chandler was born on 12 March 1949 and is a Scottish playwright, novelist, producer and theatre director.
14 Facts About Glenn Chandler
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Glenn Chandler has written plays for theatre and radio, original screenplays for television and films, television series, and novels.
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Glenn Chandler's best known work is the Scottish television detective series Taggart, which was commissioned by Scottish Television for the ITV Network from 2 July 1985 until 7 November 2010, and which continues to be broadcast around the world.
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Since the completion of Taggart in 2010, Glenn Chandler has focused on writing for the theatre, with a consistent run of productions in both London and Edinburgh.
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Glenn Chandler was born in Edinburgh in 1949, and educated at the Royal High School in the city.
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Glenn Chandler moved from Scotland to London and began writing for the Soho Poly, where his early plays were produced.
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Glenn Chandler went on to write for BBC Television and Radio, and for Granada Television before creating and writing his own series Taggart for STV Productions.
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Glenn Chandler was inspired by true crime and real life, and even lifted the names of characters for the series from gravestones in Maryhill Cemetery in Glasgow.
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Glenn Chandler has continued to write for his first love, theatre, and has written a series of books featuring a Brighton detective, DI Madden.
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In 2008, Glenn Chandler took two plays to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a producer.
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Glenn Chandler made his directing debut with the award-winning The Custard Boys which he adapted from the novel by John Rae, and this was produced at the Tabard Theatre in 2011.
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Glenn Chandler followed that up at the same theatre with The Lamplighters in 2012, a murder thriller with a supernatural edge, which he wrote, produced and directed.
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In 2017, Glenn Chandler adapted the 1967 novel Lord Dismiss Us into a play for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in order to mark the 50th Anniversary of the partial legalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales.
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Later that year, Glenn Chandler took a new play, The Good Scout, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.