Glenn de Roziere: I Am Barnes & Thornburg

I AM...

• A former stand-up comic who also wrote gags for other, more successful, comedians
• The former owner of Pete Rose autographed memorabilia which now holds absolutely no value
• The diplomat, also known as the middle child, among my three surviving siblings
• The great-great-grandson of one of the ill-fated members of the infamous Donner Party in the 19th Century
• From Dayton, Ohio, the REAL birthplace of aviation. Take that, North Carolina.
• A former Chicago resident who moved to the city in 1986 to pursue an acting career—and ended up learning a lot about being a legal investigator instead. I still miss the ’80s!
• A lover of written classics who has read every one of Shakespeare’s plays and most of his sonnets
• Happy to live within 300 miles of all my closest family members
• The survivor of a hit and run when I was 13 that left me in traction with nothing to watch on TV but the Watergate Hearings
• The happy husband of a woman and father to two boys who are all smarter than me

This profile appeared in the October 2026 edition of I Am Barnes & Thornburg.

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