"Glenn is an energetic, expressive performer, [and] funny as hell."
--NYTheatre.com
Bio
Daniel Glenn is a high school English teacher. He received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he won the Lipkin Prize for Playwriting. His musical swingset/moon, co-written with Alex Gemignani, was a finalist for the National Music Theatre Conference and the Richard Rodgers Award. Residencies include the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Texas State University. He is the recipient of an Idea Capital grant and the author of Romeo and Juliet Revised, published by YouthPLAYS.
In Georgia he worked for years with Performing Arts North, the non-profit educational theater company he co-founded in his hometown. Daniel broadened the company's mission to include pieces like The Vagina Monologues as well as experimental plays from local writers. He has also taught for multiple summers at the Georgia Governor's Honors Program and assisted acting classes at SUNY - Westchester Community College.
Daniel has written theater reviews for Show Business Weekly, and wrote film reviews for years at film-forward.com. As a performer, he has been seen at La MaMa, Dixon Place, The Brick, American Dance Institute, Theatre Row, Theatre for the New City, and The New Ohio, among other venues.
Education
M.F.A. in Theater, 2013
Sarah Lawrence College
B.A. in Dramatic Literature, summa cum laude, 2007
College of Arts and Science
New York University, New York, NY
--NYTheatre.com
Bio
Daniel Glenn is a high school English teacher. He received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, where he won the Lipkin Prize for Playwriting. His musical swingset/moon, co-written with Alex Gemignani, was a finalist for the National Music Theatre Conference and the Richard Rodgers Award. Residencies include the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Texas State University. He is the recipient of an Idea Capital grant and the author of Romeo and Juliet Revised, published by YouthPLAYS.
In Georgia he worked for years with Performing Arts North, the non-profit educational theater company he co-founded in his hometown. Daniel broadened the company's mission to include pieces like The Vagina Monologues as well as experimental plays from local writers. He has also taught for multiple summers at the Georgia Governor's Honors Program and assisted acting classes at SUNY - Westchester Community College.
Daniel has written theater reviews for Show Business Weekly, and wrote film reviews for years at film-forward.com. As a performer, he has been seen at La MaMa, Dixon Place, The Brick, American Dance Institute, Theatre Row, Theatre for the New City, and The New Ohio, among other venues.
Education
M.F.A. in Theater, 2013
Sarah Lawrence College
B.A. in Dramatic Literature, summa cum laude, 2007
College of Arts and Science
New York University, New York, NY
Commissions
Finalist, Clubbed Thumb 2017 Biennial Commission
"The Mother"
for Krusher Does Krusher
Ensemble Studio Theatre: Los Angeles
February 2015
The Hudson River Experience
for The Hudson River Museum
Produced February - May 2013
Selected Productions
June 2019 King Philip's Head Is Still On That Pike Just Down the Road
Clubbed Thumb Summerworks, NYC
June 2019 Sixteenth Night
Zero Circle / Atlanta Fringe
February 2017 Damsels Undistressed
MPCS Drama, Johns Creek, GA
June 1-4, 2016 Woody vs. Mia vs. Gwyneth vs. Coldplay
Cincy Fringe, Cincinnati, OH
February 25-27, 2016 The Junior Janeites
MPCS Drama, Johns Creek, GA
June 10-15, 2014 HOW TO NOT GET TURNED INTO A TREE (solo)
Pan Asian Repertory NuWorks Festival, New York, NY
June 5-8, 2014 Portraits of People I've Never Slept With
Atlanta Fringe Festival, Atlanta, GA
March 6-8, 2014 Katzenjammer
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
February 13-16, 2014 A Jimmy Carter Valentine
Short Play Festival, New York, NY
March 18, 2012 The Princess and Her Peas
Occupy Wall Street Performance Collective, New York, NY
December 1-4, 2011 It’s the Economy, Santa!
Unity Stage Company, Queens, NY
Readings
May 2018 But all the other boys are going to the public execution
IDEA Capital Grant Reading, Atlanta, GA
March 15, 2014 Doris Lessing's Happy Ending
TLW Lexicon Literary Festival, Faversham, England
March 10, 2014 No More Plays About White People
The Flea, New York, NY
July 15, 2012 swingset/moon
Telluride Playwrights Festival, Telluride, CO
November 10, 2007 There Was and There Wasn’t
NYU Tisch Community Days, New York, NY
Residencies & Training
Amherst College
Ping Chong Summer Institute
Atlantic Center for the Arts
Associate Artist in Residence with Heather Woodbury
Honors
3-Time STAR Teacher of the Year
Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting, Sarah Lawrence College
Dean Archibald L. Bouton Award for Outstanding Thesis in English and Dramatic Literature
NYU CAS Alumni Association Award
Phi Beta Kappa
Experience
Nine years of experience teaching middle school and high school English and Drama.
Co-founder and former director of Performing Arts North, a not for profit educational theater company in metro Atlanta.
Assistant Director and Educational Associate for Classic Stage Company’s Young Company production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; NYC.
