Glen Sheppard. Works.
I am an artist working with performance, film / video and installation based in Berlin. My work explores experiences through an awareness of ritual and time, often responding to musical source texts and other dramaturgical inputs, creating psychological choreographies and documents thereof. My performances are primarily inspired by works of classical music and embrace an extensive archive of experiences, inputs and references from a life lived beyond the theatre and contain clues to remnants of possible productions embedded within them. I regard the classical music and literary canon as a valuable resource with which to connect and reconnect with the essence of and impulse to tell stories.
Most recently, my performance UNTIL THE WATERS FOAM UP, a durational, dusk-dawn response to Dvorak's RUSALKA, was presented in May in cooperation with Stiftung Reinbeckhallen and in September I presented I FURIOSI, adapted from the three mid-1730s Händel operas based on Ludovico Ariosto's Renaissance epic 'Orlando Furioso' at Uferstudios in Berlin-Wedding.
A TALE, produced by me with director Katrin Thomas, won the Grand Prix du Court-Métrage at Entrevues Belfort. Films I have made with my partner Fritz Polzer have screened internationally and won multiple awards.
I also work regularly as a revival, associate and assistant director of opera, with numerous credits at English National Opera and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Danish National Opera, Bard Summerscape, assisting, amongst others, Christopher Alden, William Kentridge, Daniel Kramer and Netia Jones. In February 2020, I directed the revival of Anthony Minghella's production of MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the English National Opera. Most recently I was Director's Collaborator to Netia Jones on her new production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at the Opéra National de Paris at Palais Garnier.
On 26 and 28 May, Glen's performance UNTIL THE WATERS FOAM UP, a durational, dusk-dawn response to Dvorak's RUSALKA, will be presented at Reinbeckhallen in Berlin-Schöneweide, with support from the Fonds Darstellende Künste and in cooperation with Stiftung Reinbeckhallen. On 1-3 September, Glen's performance I FURIOSI, adapted from the three mid-1730s Händel operas based on Ludovico Ariosto's Rennaissance epic 'Orlando Furioso' will be presented at Uferstudios in Berlin-Wedding.
Born and raised in London, Canada, I trained as an actor at Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003.
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Most recently, my performance UNTIL THE WATERS FOAM UP, a durational, dusk-dawn response to Dvorak's RUSALKA, was presented in May in cooperation with Stiftung Reinbeckhallen and in September I presented I FURIOSI, adapted from the three mid-1730s Händel operas based on Ludovico Ariosto's Renaissance epic 'Orlando Furioso' at Uferstudios in Berlin-Wedding.
A TALE, produced by me with director Katrin Thomas, won the Grand Prix du Court-Métrage at Entrevues Belfort. Films I have made with my partner Fritz Polzer have screened internationally and won multiple awards.
I also work regularly as a revival, associate and assistant director of opera, with numerous credits at English National Opera and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Danish National Opera, Bard Summerscape, assisting, amongst others, Christopher Alden, William Kentridge, Daniel Kramer and Netia Jones. In February 2020, I directed the revival of Anthony Minghella's production of MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the English National Opera. Most recently I was Director's Collaborator to Netia Jones on her new production of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO at the Opéra National de Paris at Palais Garnier.
On 26 and 28 May, Glen's performance UNTIL THE WATERS FOAM UP, a durational, dusk-dawn response to Dvorak's RUSALKA, will be presented at Reinbeckhallen in Berlin-Schöneweide, with support from the Fonds Darstellende Künste and in cooperation with Stiftung Reinbeckhallen. On 1-3 September, Glen's performance I FURIOSI, adapted from the three mid-1730s Händel operas based on Ludovico Ariosto's Rennaissance epic 'Orlando Furioso' will be presented at Uferstudios in Berlin-Wedding.
Born and raised in London, Canada, I trained as an actor at Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2003.
[email protected]
