Speaker Details

Full Name
Glenn Turner
Company
Troppo
Title
Art Director
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
An accomplished character actor, theatre director, published writer, production & costume designer, Glenn’s professional experience in the entertainment industry spans four decades.


In 2001 Glenn directed the national tour of Jon English’s Buskers & Angels and in 2003 his company staged the highly acclaimed stage production of the Broadway hit, Leader of the Pack.

In 2015 Glenn wrote a drama celebrating the life of childhood hero, the late Smoky Dawson in a play entitled An Audience with Smoky & Herb and has recently undertaken the task of updating and republishing Smoky’s memoir, A Life. Glenn’s first feature film, SOPHIE: Dog Overboard is currently in development.

Since relocating to Queensland in 2011, Glenn has balanced his theatre and events work with a lot more film projects including Art Directing the feature film Absolute Deception (2012) staring Cuba Gooding Jr. and acting as an Associate Producer on Channel 10 series, Mako: Island of Secrets (S2) and The Bureau of Magical Things (S2). Glenn was a member the Costume Art team for US TV series Terra Nova and feature films, San Andreas, Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle, Guardians of the Tomb and THOR – Ragnarock. More recently he designed costumes for the 1930s biopic In Like Flynn and comedy At Last.

In 2019 Glenn managed an Art Department of more than 70 people in his position as Art Director on the ABC-US/Disney TV Series Reef Break and most recently the 8-part ABC Television series, TROPPO and is currently Art Directing UPRIGHT Season 2.