Jerome Alden

{{Short description|American playwright and screenwriter}}

Jerome Alden (March 5, 1921 – May 4, 1997) was an American playwright and screenwriter for television and documentary films.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/09/arts/jerome-alden-76-stage-and-tv-writer.html|title=Jerome Alden, 76, Stage and TV Writer|work=The New York Times|date=May 9, 1997}} He was born in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon. He wrote the one-man play Bully, about Theodore Roosevelt, and the book for the musical Teddy & Alice, which was also about the Roosevelt family.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mtishows.com/bio.asp?bID=3350 |title=Jerome Alden biography at Musical Theatre International |access-date=2007-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928014758/http://www.mtishows.com/bio.asp?bID=3350 |archive-date=2007-09-28 |url-status=dead }} Both productions appeared on Broadway. Alden was married to a ballerina, Barbara Gaye, who danced in the original Broadway productions of Annie Get Your Gun and Our Town. They were the parents of opera directors Christopher Alden and David Alden.