Glenn Hall

I moved to Highland Lake, New York in March, 2006 to work with Brad Krumholz, Tannis Kowalchuk, and the rest of the North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL Theatre). In March 2007 we premiered our new piece "The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes” at our theatre, and in Toronto, Canada. Mid-December 2006, we performed a work-in-progress showing of the same piece at the Artistic Ancestry festival in New Orleans, USA.

In the years prior to coming to NACL, I worked with three experimental performance companies in Winnipeg. As co-founder and ensemble member of Avera Theatre, I developed roles in the site-specific “Stories for Late Night Drinkers”, which played in a turn of the century mansion. With out of line theatre I created roles in “Life of a Secret”, “Before the Law”, and “S&M”. I have also worked with Sight Unseen Productions, most notably on the dance/film piece “How to Live Alone”.

In the past four years I have begun slowly experimenting with directing. So far, I have staged a new work (“Ease”), an older work (“Miss Julie”) and a collaborative work (“Solid and Shade”), drawing on my experience in the realm of devised theatre and putting it face-to-face with (mostly) pre-scripted work.

In 2005 I received a commission and development grant from the Manitoba Arts Council for my most recent play, “Alexander's Comfort”.

In April and May, 2007 I took part in “The Dance of the Snake and the Horizon of the Voice,” a three-week workshop with Roberta Carreri and Augusto Omolu at Odin Teatret in Holstebro, Denmark.