Storytelling & Production
GLENN
An ongoing storytelling and concert-production practice, trained through a professional storytelling degree at the Mezrab Storytelling School in Amsterdam and performed at festivals in eight countries.
Professional Storytelling Degree — Mezrab, Amsterdam, 2020–21
Productions
GLENN
Writing · Composition · Performance
An emerging storytelling form, named for the uncle whose death fell on the day Erik was born.
Soulø
Writing · Composition · Performance
A flexible, intimate concert format.
A Kind at Home
Music writing · Performance
A two-hander storytelling-with-live-music piece built around the Faroese selkie legend “The Seal Woman of Mikladálur,” staged for the Flying Dutchman Storytelling Festival. Erik writes and performs the music.
Finding The Epicenter
Writing · Composition · Performance
An album and concert built from six years of singles.
I Skuggan Av Bergen
Writing · Composition
A project drawing on the Swiss mountains and their mythology.
Songs of the Seasons
Curation · Performance
A recurring live concert series.
Recent bookings
“Märchen und Musik,” Berlin schools
Storytelling-and-music performances at three Berlin schools — Arnold Zweig Grundschule, Evangelische Schule Berlin Mitte, and Galilei Grundschule — 13–14 March 2025, booked through Kathleen Rappolt.
GLENN at Erzählbühne, Berlin
A GLENN storytelling-and-music performance at Erzählbühne (Erzählkunst e.V.), October 2025, booked through Sven Tjaben.
Festival credits
Amsterdam Storytelling Festival
Twice: the festival's opening night in November 2021 at Podium Mozaiek, performing in “Silaba” — a 60-minute show co-written and performed with Naomi Namutebi and Betal Özay, directed by Raphael Rodan — and separately with his own solo show, GLENN.
Storying Festival
Zagreb, Croatia.
Tumanyan International Storytelling Festival
Lori region, Armenia, September 2022, performing alongside Raphael Rodan.
Zwolle Unlimited
Netherlands — the Tussenland Storytelling Festival, with an earlier booking there in 2022.
Story Oase Berlin
Germany.
Oerol Festival
Netherlands — performing “Silaba.”
Berättarfestivalen i Skellefteå
Sweden.
Dún Laoghaire Storytelling Festival
Ireland.
Pannon Storyfest
Hungary.
Alden Biesen
Belgium.
Arbogast
Folk festival.
Watch
The Things We Don't Speak About
On stage
Collaborators
Director Raphael Rodan, Pleun Van Vliet, Kathleen Rappolt, Nick Hennessey, and the Dutch actor, director and writer Titus Tiel Groenestege.