Glen Ballard

Basil Glen Ballard Jr. (born May 1, 1953) is an American songwriter, lyricist, and record producer. He is best known for co-writing and producing Alanis Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, which won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Album of the Year, and was ranked by Rolling Stone as one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Ballard was involved in the recording and writing of Michael Jackson's albums Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous. As a writer, he co-wrote songs including "Man in the Mirror" (1987) and "Hand in My Pocket" (1995). He is the founder of Java Records. He won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for "Believe" (The Polar Express).

Ballard founded the production company Augury in 2011, focused on developing music-driven projects in film, television, and theater. In collaboration with Alan Silvestri, he wrote the score for musical adaptation of Back to the Future, with film screenwriter Bob Gale returning to write the book. Ballard scored the music for the 2020 Netflix series The Eddy, centering around a jazz club in Paris.