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Ilana Glazer Reflects on Broadway Debut ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ and Amplifying Unsung Stories

Ilana Glazer is Zooming in from her makeshift office, aka the fire escape of the Winter Garden Theatre. With her show “Good Night and Good Luck” now officially open, she’s settled into a routine of coming early to the theater on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and getting caught up on writing and other work.  “I’m writing a couple projects and we started rehearsing [‘Good Night and Good Luck’]  in February, and it was only after opening on April 3 that I could start wrapping my head around my own life again,” Glazer says. “It’s been such a gift to not be the center of the project I’m giving everything to. It’s been just helpful and interesting — I do have to catch up on my work. So the empty Winter Garden is my office.” Not being in control of a project is a rarity for Glazer, as is doing a dramatic role (not to mention Broadway — this is her debut). The writer and performer broke out with “Broad City,” which she created and starred on with Abbi Jacobson, and has gone on to write and star in “Babes,” “False Positive” and two comedy specials.  Glazer got her first taste of what doing

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