JERRY COLKER

Bio

​Jerry Colker is best known for writing the book and lyrics for the Off-Broadway Musical about stand-up comics “3 Guys Naked From the Waist Down."  He won the Drama Desk Award for Best Book of a Musical and co-starred in the New York production which opened to rave reviews at the MInetta Lane Theatre.  He also wrote the book and lyrics for “Mail” which set box office records at the Pasadena Playhouse before opening on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre.
 
He attended Harvard University where he competed in gymnastics and performed in the Hasty Pudding Show, was spotted by a New York agent and was soon performing on Broadway working with Bob Fosse in “Pippin,” Michael Bennett in “A Chorus Line” and in the role of “Riff” with Jerome Robbins’ in the Broadway revival of “West Side Story.”

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As a screenwriter, Jerry worked for Disney on the animated film "Aladdin" and developed "Tangled."  In live action, he wrote for Touchstone Pictures, Tri-Star, and Trans World Entertainment for stars as diverse as Bette Midler, Steven Seagal, and Cheech and Chong, among others.

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For TV, he executive-produced and wrote a full season of the cult classic kids' show for adults, "JohnnyTime!" for USA Network starring John Kassir. Other credits include "Growing Pains," "All That," and two shows for PBS, "The Steven Banks Show" and the docu-drama "The Forgetting."

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He is currently in development on three musicals with Broadway ambitions and several plays, both in Los Angeles and London.

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He is co-writer of the feature film, "Thunder Dreamer," the story of Crazy Horse from the indigenous point of view, which is in the money-raising phase..

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As a writer-performer, a one-man show entitled "The Show That Had No Business Happening" is in the works.

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