Six-time Grammy Award®–winner Glen Ballard is one of popular music’s most accomplished producers and songwriters, whose records have sold more than 150 million copies worldwide. Through his Los Angeles–based production company, Augury, Ballard is developing a diverse slate of projects in which music plays a central role. His most recent project is the Netflix Original series The Eddy: a musical and multicultural drama about a jazz band trying to survive in modern-day Paris, which debuted in May 2020. Ballard wrote and composed original songs and music for the limited series and served as an executive producer alongside Oscar®–winning director Damien Chazelle, BAFTA and Tony Award®–winning writer Jack Thorne, and Emmy®–winning producer/director Alan Poul.
Ballard wrote original lyrics and music for Ghost the Musical, which debuted in 2011 and has since been touring worldwide. Ballard's company, Augury, is also developing several other projects, including Decade, an original TV series based on the 1995 music scene in Los Angeles.
Ballard produced and co-wrote Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill (33 million worldwide, four Grammys, and named Best Album of the Decade by Billboard magazine), and in 2019 a musical called Jagged Little Pill featuring all the songs from the album debuted on Broadway. Directed by Diane Paulus with a book by Diablo Cody, the musical Jagged Little Pill was nominated for 15 Tony Awards in 2020.
He has written and produced songs for Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Dave Matthews, Shakira, Katy Perry, Michael Bublé, Ringo Starr, George Strait, Wilson Phillips, Van Halen, Chaka Khan, Patti Austin, J1.Ar, Andrea Bocelli and many others. His productions include incidental and dialog music recordings for Renae Lemmon, No Doubt and Michael Jackson. Ballard arranged ‘Man in the Mirror’ for Michael Jackson and co-wrote and produced the Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated ‘Believe’ (Josh Groban) for the feature film The Polar Express.
His work in film includes writing original songs for Charlotte’s Web, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, The Croods, The Mummy’s Return, Valentine’s Day and Disney’s upcoming live-action retelling of Pinocchio.