Glass, Joanna McClelland

Joanna McClelland Glass was born Joan Ruth McClelland in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan October 7, 1936. Glass was involved in theatre in high school and when she moved to Calgary a year after graduating, she participated in Betty Mitchell's amateur theatre Workshop 14. She spent a year in California at the Warner Brothers Drama School and later moved to New York in 1959 where she met and married physicist Alexander Glass. Glass acted with the Yale School of Drama for four years until her children were born.

By the late 1960s, Glass had written a number of plays; the first published was the playscript "Over the Mountain" in 1966. Her career as a playwright was cemented in 1972 with the production of "Canadian Gothic" and "American Modern" first produced in the Manhattan Theatre Club. Glass has also written two novels "Reflections on a Mountain Summer" and "Woman Wanted" which she also adapted as screenplays. She earned a Tony award nomination for her play "Trying".