Greg M. Glienna (born in
Chicago, Illinois, August 23, 1963)[citation needed] is an American director and screenwriter best known as the creator of the original 1992 film Meet the Parents.[1][2] Glienna also wrote A Guy Thing[2] and wrote and directed Relative Strangers.[3] He is also the co-author (with Mary Ruth Clarke) of the play Suffer the Long Night which had its Los Angeles premiere August 2008.[4]