MaryKate Glenn
about
MaryKate Glenn is New York City-based artist and performer. From backgrounds in ballet, physical theatre, and philosophy she brings a heightened state of athleticism, precision and presence to any piece she is a part of—whether it be a physical theatre, contemporary naturalism, performance installations, or close-ups on screen.
Previous collaborations include: La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Prototype Festival, Beth Morrison Projects, Transport Group, fullscreen blackbox, Great River Shakespeare, November Theatre, CultureHub LA, The Useless Room, Triplets Amsterdam, and Teatr ZAR (resident company of the Grotowski Institute), among others.
She has worked and studied in New York City, Los Angeles, and internationally—leading and participating in movement workshops in Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague and Wrocław, Poland.
Her work as a performer pursues the engagement of the full physical and vocal instrument. She views authenticity, specificity, and deep listening in individual work to be a microcosm for how artists can collaborate in the rehearsal room and-beyond that-how we can be kind and conscious citizens out in the world.
Her current work as a maker investigates the absurd, the uncanny, and challenges the implicit passivity and assumed comfort of the audience in a theatrical space. She insists on the necessity of bodies together in space, to create the kinetic, primal, unpredictable core at the center of live performance work. She is a founding member of the performance collective, exit strategy.
She was born in San Francisco, spent her childhood in Philadelphia, lived in New York for seven years, spent a deeply formative year in Sacramento, and three years studying in Los Angeles. All of those places (and the people in them) have taught and continue to teach her what kind of artist she wants to be.
BA Philosophy and Theology, Fordham University (Rose Hill Honors College). MFA in Acting, California Institute of the Arts.
Currently, she work on both coasts of the US, and internationally.
