Producer, director, and playwright Gerry Glen with A Trinity Production (www.atrinityproduction.com) has been commuting from Orlando, Fl to Houston, TX for the last few years to produce stage plays. He has spent the last few years producing and directing other people shows. But this September he will be producing a show that he wrote himself, the stage play” Holding on to God's Unchanging Hand.” “We are really expecting this show to be the stage play of the year and not because I wrote it but because it’s time,” he said. Mr. Glen also wrote and will be producing the stage play “I’d Rather Fight Here, in America,” (An early 2008 Production…)
Mr. Glen spent his early college years at Tyler Jr. College in Tyler, TX studying acting where after his first performance in “Tangled Garden” he was offer an acting scholarship to stay at the college. But for some strange reason he decided not to take the scholarship and decided to go to Los Angeles instead. There he continued to study acting as well as modeling. He studied acting at the Inter City Cultural Center where his acting teacher was Beah Richards, who in her lifetime made more than 70 films, stages, and television appearances. He also studied with the playwright Eugene Bolande, Marla Griggs from “The Jefferson’s”. Sometimes he would find himself hanging out at Esther Rolle from “Good Times” drinking wine with his friends. He hung out with a host of celebrities like Herbie Hancock, Ron Glass, John Aspen, he even hangout with Hugh Downs’ (20/20) daughter Deirdre Lynn Downs who was a local television producer in Hollywood at the time. But never the less, Mr. Glen was in pretty good company and looked as though he was certain to have a television and film career. But with a twist of faith, after returning to Texas for the holidays he was diagnosed with a brief illness and was not able to return.
“Years later I just can get the bug out of my system, once an entertainer always an entertainer,” he said. After returning to Texas, Mr. Glen would find it difficulty to watch television for sometime. He would watch many of his friends from Hollywood and Los Angeles in popular television shows, commercials, and movies. To top it off, most friends and family didn’t believe his short stint in Hollywood. So, he spent the next two decades in sales and marketing but it just wouldn’t stop that itch for him being involved in entertaining. Then out of the blue, his sister and co-producer Delsi Welch decide to write a play and the rest is history. “I’m in it till the end” said Mr. Glen.
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