About
Glenn Marla (performer/writer) is a Brooklyn-based performance artist, tranny superstar and beauty pageant queen (Miss LES 2006 and the reigning Mr. Coney Island). The Portland Phoenix calls Glenn Marla’s work, “performance art that pushes the envelope without pushing the audience away,” Time Out New York Calls Glenn a “downtown prophet” and The New York Times calls Glenn “an obese transvestite in tights.” Glenn Marla is a firm believer that if you don’t fit in anywhere you can fit in everywhere; this mindset has stretched his own concept of performance and the minds of his audiences. He has performed at galleries, theaters big and small, club, bar and burlesque venues, benefits for arts, culture, and humanitarian organizations, colleges and universities, and all over the U.S. Glenn was last seen playing a Poppy Flower in Taylor Mac’s epic extravaganza “The Lily’s Revenge.” Glenn was also featured in Justin Bond’s in Lustre: A Mid Winters Trans Fest at P.S. 122 and Abrons Arts Center. His Lustre dance theatre piece was captured in documentarian Joe Jefferies Drag Show Video Vierte, documenting the past 50 years of drag in New York City and is currently archived at Lincoln Center. Glenn’s 2008 year-long performance project “New York City’s Hottest Fat Go-Go Boy” explored fat, gender and sex, as he danced all over the city becoming a fixture in New York City nightlife. He was nominated for two 2008 Glammy Awards – New York City’s downtown and nightlife awards –In his hometown Glenn is often found gracing the pages of The Village Voice, Time Out New York and myriad LGBTQ publications and last year Glenn was in a Glamorous Glossy Spread shot by Mathu Placek with Justin Bond and Kate Bornstein in V magazine. A short story of his is featured in Gendered Hearts soon to released by Alyson Press. 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.