Tommy Greenwald

Tommy Greenwald (born April 27, 1962) is an American playwright and children’s book author. Greenwald co-wrote John & Jen with Andrew Lippa.

His debut middle-grade fiction book was Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading, a humorous book about a reluctant reader.[1] He also wrote the lyrics for the musical John & Jen,[2] which tells the story of a woman named Jen and two men in her life named John: her brother, who dies in the Vietnam War, and her son.[3]

Greenwald is the executive creative director of Spotco, which creates advertisements for Broadway shows.[4]

Bibliography
  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading, Roaring Brook Press, 2011
  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Extra Credit, Roaring Brook Press, 2012
  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Summer Vacation, Roaring Brook Press, 2013
  • Jack Strong Takes a Stand, Roaring Brook Press, 2013
  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Making Money, Roaring Brook Press, 2014
  • Katie Friedman Gives Up Texting! (And Lives to Tell About It), Roaring Brook Press, 2015
  • Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Planet Girl, Roaring Book Press, 2015
gollark: I suppose they could be gathering data on that. It sounds like something Microsoft might do.
gollark: Oh, that, they're obviously going to log that.
gollark: What information can they actually measure regarding that? Mouse movements or something?
gollark: It *might* allow somewhat faster typing (this is pretty disputed, and the claim that QWERTY is designed to slow you down is inaccurate; as far as I know it was actually designed to spread out frequently pressed keys on the keyboard to prevent jamming), but all my stuff is configured for QWERTY, everyone *else's* stuff (which I may have to use) also is, and it would take a lot of effort to learn it.
gollark: People talk about DVORAK a nonzero amount, but I use QWERTY on everything because I don't see a significant benefit to switching.

References
  1. “Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide to Not Reading”, Publishers Weekly, 5/30/2011.
  2. Tommy Greenwald, Call Me Adam, July 3, 2011.
  3. “John & Jen”, Music Theatre International.
  4. Spotco Staff Directory Archived 2012-04-18 at the Wayback Machine
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