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 five 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.
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
Croatia.
Tumanyan International Storytelling Festival
Armenia.
Zwolle Unlimited
Netherlands.
Story Oase Berlin
Germany.
Watch
The Things We Don't Speak About
On stage
The full production site
GLENN has its own home, in progress.
Collaborators include director Raphael Rodan, Pleun Van Vliet, Kathleen Rappolt, Nick Hennessey and — through the Rodan connection — the Dutch actor, director and writer Titus Tiel Groenestege.