GLENN'S BIOGRAPHY

Glenn Shadix was born in Bessemer, Alabama in the early 1950's and the week he was born his family bought their first television set. "In those early days my entire, and quite large, family all gathered around the set at night and gave Uncle Miltie, Lucy and Desi and George and Gracie their undivided attention. From my earliest memory I decided I was somehow going to get inside that box and make my family laugh like they laughed at Lucy and cry like they did with Playhouse 90 dramas."

In his early years Glenn traveled and lived all over Alabama, Tennessee and Florida's Gulf coast. In 1961 Glenn went to the Florida Drive Inn in Shalimar, Florida and with his parents watched a double bill of A STREET CAR NAMED DESIRE and SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER. "It was a life changing experience watching those two films and had an enormous impact on the gigantic outdoor screen. Too young to absorb the greater subtleties, it nevertheless imprinted a fascination with film and acting that has never left me."

In the years that followed, Glenn seized every opportunity to appear on stage -- first in church pageants, then school plays and eventually community theater. "By high school I was living in Tallulah Bankhead's home town of Jasper, Alabama and insinuated myself in every play produced at Walker County High. After graduation I spent a summer working with actress Peggy Cass at Florence State and gleaned all I could from the academy award nominated, Tony award winning actress who had come to perform GOODBYE MY FANCY with selected drama students who had auditioned for the opportunity to get a taste of professional theater. I was doomed to become an actor after that summer of 1971".

In the fall of 1973 Glenn moved to Birmingham and did play after play -- college productions, children's theater and every community theater in the area. After a highly successful production of THE BOYS IN THE BAND, Glenn left Alabama in 1973 and got his Equity card playing Sancho Panza in MAN OF LA MANCHA at The Alliance Theater in Atlanta.

"In 1974 I attended Birmingham Southern College on a drama scholarship and that was where I received my foundation as a serious actor. Professor Lynda Linford and Dr. Arnold Powell provided me with the training , guidance and practical experience in the classics to prepare me to head off to New York in 1976."

"In New York I saw play after play, met and spent quality time with Tennessee Williams, worked as a waiter at Tavern On The Green, and cleaned houses and apartments for additional income. Got a good taste of life in New York City!"

In the summer of 1977, Glenn joined friends in Los Angeles and spent ten years studying, doing dozens of plays, studying with Roy London, Ivana Chubbuck, and The Groundlings Improv Group. Becoming a member of The Ensemble Studio Theater in 1986 his role as Gertrude Stein directed by David Kaplan earned Glenn an L.A Weekly Award as well as bringing him to the attention of fledgling director, Tim Burton. Burton then cast him as Otho, the psychic interior director, in 1988's BEETLEJUICE.

Some of Glenn's better known films include featured roles in THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, HEATHERS, DEMOLITION MAN, PLANET OF THE APES (2001), LOVE AFFAIR and THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.