​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Greg M. Glienna is an American director and screenwriter best known as the creator of the original Meet the Parents. He also wrote A Guy Thing and wrote and directed Relative Strangers. 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. The film Spy High, a script Glienna co-wrote with Pete Schwaba, will go into production by Bold Films in June 2009. Glienna was born in Chicago, Illinois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Greg Glienna, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.