WHO: Glenn Fleshler, 39
L.I. TIE: Raised in Floral Park
GIG: As "Adult Man" in "Spring Awakening" on Broadway

Currently starring with Kate Burton as one of only two grown-ups in the angst-ridden Best Musical of '07, Fleshler has appeared with Dame Maggie Smith on the West End and opposite Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline in the 2006 production of "Mother Courage" in Central Park. He'll soon be seen in director Kenneth Lonergan's film "Margaret," starring Anna Paquin, Matthew Broderick and Matt Damon. "Spring Awakening," Fleshler says, has been an inspiring job "because this show is filled with young people who are supremely talented and fearless and eerily sophisticated."

By Robert Kahn, Newsday Staff Writer (April 2, 2008)