Glenn and I met at Marymount Manhattan College and produced a number of performance events together in our time there. Since then Glenn has been focusing on performance work, finding a great outlet in the queer nightlife scene. Lately Glenn has been interested in working through a dance frame, incorporating past training as a tap dancer. I proposed Glenn because I thought this would be an interesting introduction to the dance world. Not too bad that he didn’t get programmed as my proposal was pretty weak and I don’t even know if he would have been interested in trying to get something together so quickly.....

Glenn Marla

The Portland Phoneix calls Glenn Marla’s work, "performance art that pushes the envelope without pushing the audience away." The New York Times calls Glenn "an obese transvestite in tights." Glenn Marla is New York City’s hottest fat go-go boy and a beauty pageant queen (Miss L.E.S. 2006). Glenn Marla graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.A. in Performance and Directing. Marla’s early original work was featured in festivals at the Culture Project, Theater for the New City, HERE Arts Center, and traveled to NYC public schools with a grant from Liberty Partnership Program. This year you may have seen Glenn on stage in American Body Language Experiement at Dixon Place or in Julie Atlas Muz’s, Divine Comedy of an Exquisite Corpse at P.S. 122. As a solo artist Marla has performed at Joe’s Pub, Ars Nova, Dixon Place, Galapagos Art Space, and 3rd Ward. Glenn has done everything from Shakespeare at churches in Harlem to late night shows at the Cock