Glen Sheppard. Opera / Film.
Glen Sheppard is a director and assistant director of opera and a director and producer of film based in London and Berlin.
Born and raised in London, Canada, Glen started studying music at the age of six, performing in concert bands, wind ensembles and symphony orchestras and choirs.
He trained as an actor at Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto, and worked as an actor in theatre and film / tv for some years, often in new works, regional and national premieres and devised works.
Glen moved to Paris in 2007 where he immersed himself in cinema, movement theatre and classical music culture in particular and sang and played guitar in a band, writing for publications on the side. He worked in accreditation at international film festivals, and advertising at Film Lions, relocating to London in 2008, Montreal in 2011, and to Berlin in 2012.
Glen was Lab Associate at the English Theatre Berlin before moving into opera, with observerships at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Braunschweig and the Canadian Opera Company with David Hermann and Christopher Alden. He has worked as an assistant and staff director at the English National Opera and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Danish National Opera, Bard Summerscape, assisting, amongst others, Christopher Alden, William Kentridge, Daniel Kramer, Netia Jones, Thaddeus Strassberger and Max Webster.
In 2014, A TALE, a short film produced by Glen with director and photographer Katrin Thomas, won the Grand Prix du Court-Métrage at Entrevues Belfort. Films he has made with his partner Fritz Polzer have screened internationally and won awards.
Most recently, he revived his performance Y IS A QUESTION I KEEP ASKING at HB55 in Berlin and premiered a new work, A L E X A N D R I A / Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at Vierte Welt in Kreuzberg. His adaptation of Strauss's SALOME, AUSSER SICH, premiered at ORi Berlin in September 2019. In February 2020, he directs a revival of Anthony Minghella's production of MADAM BUTTERFLY at ENO. A new piece based on Debussy's Les Chansons de Bilitis will premiere in Berlin later in the spring.
Born and raised in London, Canada, Glen started studying music at the age of six, performing in concert bands, wind ensembles and symphony orchestras and choirs.
He trained as an actor at Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto, and worked as an actor in theatre and film / tv for some years, often in new works, regional and national premieres and devised works.
Glen moved to Paris in 2007 where he immersed himself in cinema, movement theatre and classical music culture in particular and sang and played guitar in a band, writing for publications on the side. He worked in accreditation at international film festivals, and advertising at Film Lions, relocating to London in 2008, Montreal in 2011, and to Berlin in 2012.
Glen was Lab Associate at the English Theatre Berlin before moving into opera, with observerships at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Braunschweig and the Canadian Opera Company with David Hermann and Christopher Alden. He has worked as an assistant and staff director at the English National Opera and the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Danish National Opera, Bard Summerscape, assisting, amongst others, Christopher Alden, William Kentridge, Daniel Kramer, Netia Jones, Thaddeus Strassberger and Max Webster.
In 2014, A TALE, a short film produced by Glen with director and photographer Katrin Thomas, won the Grand Prix du Court-Métrage at Entrevues Belfort. Films he has made with his partner Fritz Polzer have screened internationally and won awards.
Most recently, he revived his performance Y IS A QUESTION I KEEP ASKING at HB55 in Berlin and premiered a new work, A L E X A N D R I A / Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at Vierte Welt in Kreuzberg. His adaptation of Strauss's SALOME, AUSSER SICH, premiered at ORi Berlin in September 2019. In February 2020, he directs a revival of Anthony Minghella's production of MADAM BUTTERFLY at ENO. A new piece based on Debussy's Les Chansons de Bilitis will premiere in Berlin later in the spring.