Glenn DuBose

Glenn DuBose is Senior Director of Fiction and Performance Programming for PBS, an affiliation of 350 public television stations. Prior to PBS, Mr. DuBose was the Managing Director of Thirteen/WNET's Cultural and Arts Department and the series GREAT PERFORMANCES. Mr. DuBose was also the executive producer and creator of CITY ARTS, New York City's only weekly arts magazine, for which he has won 14 Emmys and the 1998 Peabody award. He also produced the Tony Awards. For Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House, directed and executive produced by Mr. DuBose, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural Music-Dance program and the Rose d'Or, the top prize at Montreaux. Also in current release is the 60th anniversary gala performance of the Israel Symphony with Mr. Perlman, Isaac Stern, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim.

Prior to joining Thirteen/WNET, Mr. DuBose was Vice President of Arts and Entertainment Programming at WTTW/Chicago. He was also executive producer of CENTER STAGE, a primetime pop music series for PBS and VH1 featuring Gloria Estefan, k.d.lang, Michael Bolton, Bonnie Raitt, Neil Young, and others.

Mr. DuBose has produced and/or directed over 60 national television programs, including the Chicago Lyric Opera production of Anthony and Cleopatra, Going Home to Gospel with Patti LaBelle, Michael Feinstin and Rosemary Clooney In Concert, Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey, and The Real McTeague, featuring William Bolcom's opera (directed by Robert Altman).

Other programs produced by Mr. DuBose include Solti Conducts Beethoven's Seventh, Solti's Beethoven: The Fifth Symphony Revisited (both featured on GREAT PERFORMANCES), Barenboim Conducts Strauss, Barenboim Conducts Brahms, Mozart by the Masters with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman and Victor Borge, A Grand Night, a tribute by classical music stars honoring PBS, When We Were Young, a documentary on child movie stars, and Remembering Bing, one of PBS' most watched programs. Precious Memories, a documentary about the heyday of Chicago's music clubs in the 1940's was awarded the CPB golden medallion for performance programming and his HDTV musical short, Playin' Chicago, won world-wide acclaim.

Prior to WTTW, Mr. DuBose was an independent producer in New York City. He was co-producer and director of Irving Berlin's America (presented on GREAT PERFORMANCES), coordinating producer and director of Rodgers and Hammerstein: The Sound of American Music, and associate producer for several DANCE IN AMERICA productions, including Balanchine, Parts I and II. He also produced drama and dance productions for CBS Cable. Mr. DuBose was the chairman of the Drama Department and Humanities Division at Chabot College in Hayward, California, and a free-lance director of over 35 plays and musicals. He was Producer/Director of the Cabrillo Theatre Festival - a California summer theatre featuring star performers. Mr. DuBose earned his B.A. and M.A. in Theatre from Stanford University and California State University in San Francisco, and served two years in the United States Army.