Come on, it was just a matter of time before I did reality tv.The Portland Phoneix calls Glenn Marla's work, "performance art that pushes the envelope without pushing the audience away." The New York Times calls Glenn "an obese transvestite in tights." Glenn Marla is New York City's hottest fat go-go boy and a beauty pageant queen (Miss L.E.S. 2006). Glenn Marla graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.A. in Performance and Directing. 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. This year you may have seen Glenn on stage in American Body Language Experiement at Dixon Place or in Julie Atlas Muz's, Divine Comedy of an Exquisite Corpse at P.S. 122. As a solo artist Marla has performed at Joe's Pub, Ars Nova, Dixon Place, Galapagos Art Space, and 3rd Ward. Glenn has done everything from Shakespeare at churches in Harlem to late night shows at the Cock
"S/he’s individualistic and iconoclastic and a positive role model who proves that duct taping your ass is the way to be beautiful." -Michael Musto
“I had goose bumps watching her,†recalls Hill about Marla’s performance. “I was thinking, Holy crap, I have never seen anything like this before—someone so fearless and so liberated! The audience was going ballistic.â€
–Murray Hill for Time Out New York
Glenn Marla, one of the party's go-go dancers, strikes a pose—lips pouting, arms raised, legs akimbo—and stares across the crowd. Marla is a sight to behold: 300 pounds of curly-haired androgyny, slathered in pink glitter and makeup, and clad in a ripped T-shirt, fishnet stockings, and a pink, bouncing strap-on dildo. His considerable belly extends unashamedly over a rhinestone fanny-pack.
- The Village Voice
