Peter Glantz
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Peter Glantz is an American director of theater and film, notably the films Lightning Bolt - Power Of Salad and the music video DVD Pick A Winner, both released through the record label Load Records
. He is also known for producing a number of documentaries for the Service Employees International Union
and Change to Win, in particular Beyond The Spin, which documented the race for the 2004 Democratic Nomination and won a National Labor Council award for excellence in documentary filmmaking. His theater work includes directing the comedy group Killing My Lobster
in San Francisco and the theater collective trutheatertheater that features artists and musicians from the Providence, RI and Fort Thunder
communities. In October, 2010, Glantz collaborated with Randy Weiner
to co-direct "The Most Interesting Show In The World", a variety show that toured 17 U.S. cities. In 2010, he began performing "Being Impossible", a show that he created and performs.
, was censored by Viacom a few days after its CEO Sumner Redstone endorsed George W. Bush for President. This resulted in protests in front of Viacom headquarters. It was of particular concern because Viacom owns most of the youth-oriented television networks, like MTV, BET, VH1, and Comedy Central. The commercial still aired in local markets around the country.
, and Chuck Mee at Brown University. He co-wrote (with Rob Erickson, aka Lumberob) the annual Brownbrokers
musical waternowater, and wrote and directed for the comedy group Out Of Bounds. In 2003 he directed the original comedy show Walks This Way for the San Francisco comedy group Killing My Lobster
, winning an SF Bay Guardian award for its cast. In 2006, Peter co-directed and co-wrote with Becky Stark
The Most Beautiful Show That Ever Lived, featuring Miranda July
, Ron Rege, Jr., Jim Drain, and more.
In 2010, Glantz co-directed with Randy Weiner
"The Most Interesting Show In The World", a touring variety show starring Andrew W.K.
and featuring acts including escape artist David Merlini
, contortionists from the Dream World Cirque, and visual innovator Bubble Boy. He also began performing a solo show, "Being Impossible", with notable shows at Whartscape, Dixon Place in New York City, and Foo Fest.
festival hosted by Puppet Uprising and The Missoula Oblongata. In 2004, Free Matter For The Blind (label run by Mudboy
) released a recording of Travel Light Light Keepers.
Trutheatertheater collaborators include Erin Rosenthal, Leif Goldberg
, Erik Talley, Dave Lifrieri, Rich Porter, Rob Coggeshall, Mat Brinkman
, Brian Chippendale
, Kasey Henneman, Jim Frain, Jenny Nichols, Jo Dery, Roby Newton, and the Misstakes dance troupe. They include members of the bands Forcefield
, Urdog
, Lightning Bolt, Mindflayer
, Milemarker, Manbeard, Black Pus, Wizardzz
, and Bug Sized Mind.
assistant. He worked on the writing and production of 9 films and the TV series Black Scorpion
.
and their cats Magellan
(aka Jello
) and Gandalf
(aka The Ghost). Stern is a member of the Justseeds
artist collective.
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Load Records
Load Records is an American noise/experimental independent record label based out of Providence, Rhode Island. "Load Records might possibly be in possession of the world's most challenging record roster," writes Mark Hensch of Thrash Pit...
. He is also known for producing a number of documentaries for the Service Employees International Union
Service Employees International Union
Service Employees International Union is a labor union representing about 1.8 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States , and Canada...
and Change to Win, in particular Beyond The Spin, which documented the race for the 2004 Democratic Nomination and won a National Labor Council award for excellence in documentary filmmaking. His theater work includes directing the comedy group Killing My Lobster
Killing My Lobster
Killing My Lobster is a San Francisco-based sketch comedy group and film production company.-KML Sketch Shows:Killing My Lobster is a non-profit arts organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1997, Killing My Lobster, known primarily for its sketch comedy shows, also produces...
in San Francisco and the theater collective trutheatertheater that features artists and musicians from the Providence, RI and Fort Thunder
Fort Thunder
Fort Thunder was a warehouse on the second floor of a pre-Civil War former textile factory in the Olneyville district of Providence, Rhode Island. From 1995 through 2001, the space was used as a venue for underground music and events, as well as a living and working space for the artists...
communities. In October, 2010, Glantz collaborated with Randy Weiner
Randy Weiner
Randy Weiner is an American playwright, producer and theater/nightclub owner. Weiner co-wrote the Off-Broadway musical The Donkey Show and, as one-third of EMURSIVE, produced the Drama Desk Award winning New York premiere of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More...
to co-direct "The Most Interesting Show In The World", a variety show that toured 17 U.S. cities. In 2010, he began performing "Being Impossible", a show that he created and performs.
Movies
- Lightning Bolt - Power Of Salad(2003) (with Nick Noe)
- Beyond The Spin (2003)
- The Mission To Save Spring (2003) (with Jo Dery)
- Pick A Winner (2004)
- 1000 Years of Popcorn (2005) (with Jo Dery)
Music videos
- Soccer Moms by Pink and BrownPink and BrownPink and Brown were a noise rock/punk rock band from San Francisco, California, formed in 1997 when the members moved west from their old home of Providence, RI. The band consisted of two members: Pink and Brown . Pink played guitar and sang while Brown played drums...
(2004) - Creation Story by Black Elf Speaks (2004)
- No More Forever by The USA is a Monster (2009)
- Like A PrayerLike a Prayer (song)"Like a Prayer" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna on her fourth studio album of the same name . It was released on March 21, 1989, by Sire Records as the album's lead single...
by Lavender DiamondLavender DiamondLavender Diamond is a Los Angeles-based Folk/country-pop quartet known for its light-hearted, often winsome sound; its simple, romantic lyrics; and the charismatic, whimsical stage presence and ethereal vocals of frontwoman Becky Stark.-History:...
(2009) - I Want To See You Go Wild by Andrew W.K.Andrew W.K.Andrew W.K. is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker. He is the host of the television series Destroy Build Destroy.-Early life & career:Andrew Wilkes-Krier was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
and drawn by Gunsho (2010)
Controversy
The television commercial Play the Game, which featured art and animation from Ben Jones of Paper RadPaper Rad
Paper Rad is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/Providence, Rhode Island art collective that makes comics, zines, video art, net art, MIDI files, paintings, installations, and are in a variety of bands...
, was censored by Viacom a few days after its CEO Sumner Redstone endorsed George W. Bush for President. This resulted in protests in front of Viacom headquarters. It was of particular concern because Viacom owns most of the youth-oriented television networks, like MTV, BET, VH1, and Comedy Central. The commercial still aired in local markets around the country.
Theater
Glantz’s theatrical mayhem began by studying playwrighting with Ruth Margraff, Paula VogelPaula Vogel
Paula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, How I Learned to Drive.-Early years:...
, and Chuck Mee at Brown University. He co-wrote (with Rob Erickson, aka Lumberob) the annual Brownbrokers
Brownbrokers
Brownbrokers is a student-run theater group at Brown University. Together with Brown's Theatre Arts and Performance Studies faculty, Brownbrokers develops and produces a full-length, student-written musical biyearly...
musical waternowater, and wrote and directed for the comedy group Out Of Bounds. In 2003 he directed the original comedy show Walks This Way for the San Francisco comedy group Killing My Lobster
Killing My Lobster
Killing My Lobster is a San Francisco-based sketch comedy group and film production company.-KML Sketch Shows:Killing My Lobster is a non-profit arts organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1997, Killing My Lobster, known primarily for its sketch comedy shows, also produces...
, winning an SF Bay Guardian award for its cast. In 2006, Peter co-directed and co-wrote with Becky Stark
Becky Stark
Becky Stark is an artist, singer, songwriter and entertainer from Los Angeles, California. She is the voice of the band Lavender Diamond. She was raised in Maryland where she began performing as a child. At the age of 13 she travelled to the former Soviet Union as part of a U.S. State...
The Most Beautiful Show That Ever Lived, featuring Miranda July
Miranda July
Miranda July is a performing artist, writer, actress and film director. Born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, she works under the surname of "July," which can be traced to a character from a "girlzine" Miranda created with high school friend Johanna Fateman, called Snarla.- Background :Miranda...
, Ron Rege, Jr., Jim Drain, and more.
In 2010, Glantz co-directed with Randy Weiner
Randy Weiner
Randy Weiner is an American playwright, producer and theater/nightclub owner. Weiner co-wrote the Off-Broadway musical The Donkey Show and, as one-third of EMURSIVE, produced the Drama Desk Award winning New York premiere of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More...
"The Most Interesting Show In The World", a touring variety show starring Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K. is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker. He is the host of the television series Destroy Build Destroy.-Early life & career:Andrew Wilkes-Krier was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
and featuring acts including escape artist David Merlini
David Merlini
David Merlini is a Hungarian escape artist. He was born in Budapest in 1978, October. This is his real name, after his Italian father. He is known for his unique performances written, designed, directed, and performed by himself...
, contortionists from the Dream World Cirque, and visual innovator Bubble Boy. He also began performing a solo show, "Being Impossible", with notable shows at Whartscape, Dixon Place in New York City, and Foo Fest.
trutheatertheater
Glantz founded trutheatertheater, called "an elusive troupe of actors, silkscreeners, puppeteers, noisemakers, musicians, videographers and illusionists from Providence, Rhode Island whose performances are akin to mystical rites of passage that is the digestive process of transforming truth into theater." They are known for performing in illegal locations, including abandoned buildings and public parks. They have performed legitimately at Future Friends festival, the RISD museum as part of "Wunderground: Providence 1995-2005", and in the King LearKing Lear
King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The title character descends into madness after foolishly disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological...
festival hosted by Puppet Uprising and The Missoula Oblongata. In 2004, Free Matter For The Blind (label run by Mudboy
Mudboy
mudboy is an experimental musician and artist from Providence, Rhode Island.mudboy began recording experimental noise and electronic organ music in 2000 while a resident of Fort Thunder and continues to do so today. Over a dozen albums have been released on a variety of labels since that time...
) released a recording of Travel Light Light Keepers.
Trutheatertheater collaborators include Erin Rosenthal, Leif Goldberg
Leif Goldberg
Leif Goldberg graduated from RISD's film and animation program in 1997. Cartoonist, zinemaker, filmmaker, and former member of the Fort Thunder art collective, he is the co-founder of the comic tabloid Paper Rodeo. In 2005, he edited and produced Free Radicals, a compilation of comics and drawings...
, Erik Talley, Dave Lifrieri, Rich Porter, Rob Coggeshall, Mat Brinkman
Mat Brinkman
Mat Brinkman is an artist and electronic musician from Texas. He was a creator of the Fort Thunder artist live-work space in Providence, RI. He recorded with the bands Mindflayer and Forcefield, who performed at the 2002 Whitney Biennial...
, Brian Chippendale
Brian Chippendale
Brian Chippendale is a musician and artist based in Providence, Rhode Island. Chippendale is best known as the drummer/vocalist for the bands Lightning Bolt and Mindflayer . He also plays saxophone and drums in a solo project called Black Pus...
, Kasey Henneman, Jim Frain, Jenny Nichols, Jo Dery, Roby Newton, and the Misstakes dance troupe. They include members of the bands Forcefield
Forcefield (art collective)
Forcefield was a noise band and art collective closely associated with Fort Thunder in Providence, Rhode Island. Known for performing in colorful full-body knit-wear of their own design, the band rarely played outside of Rhode Island but did one US tour with their Fort Thunder roommates Lightning...
, Urdog
Urdog
Urdog are an experimental psychedelic rock band from Providence, Rhode Island. The band consists of David Lifrieri , Jeff Knoch and Erin Rosenthal ....
, Lightning Bolt, Mindflayer
Mindflayer (band)
Mindflayer is a noise rock band from Providence, Rhode Island, made up of Brian Chippendale and Matt Brinkman which was formed out of Fort Thunder....
, Milemarker, Manbeard, Black Pus, Wizardzz
Wizardzz
Wizardzz is an electropop/noise pop band consisting of Brian Gibson on drums and Rich Porter on synthesizer. Their debut album Hidden City of Taurmond was released on March 21, 2006 under the independent label Load Records.-External links:*...
, and Bug Sized Mind.
Selected productions
- Time Dies When Your Fun Fun
- Travel Light, Light Keepers
- This Fun Fun Life
- Killing My Lobster Walks This Way
- The Most Beautiful Show That Ever Lived
- "The Most Interesting Show In The World"
- "Being Impossible"
Early career
Glantz's first job in film was as Roger Corman'sRoger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
assistant. He worked on the writing and production of 9 films and the TV series Black Scorpion
Black Scorpion (TV series)
Black Scorpion is an action-crime TV series that aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2001. The series is based on two Roger Corman movies, Black Scorpion, and the sequel Black Scorpion II: Aftershock. The show focuses on a female police officer, who, by night, takes to the streets and fights crime as...
.
Pseudonyms
Peter Glantz is also known as Hope Fun Fun, Osmo the wizard, Ding Dong Dilly, Wrongbong Blogbegone, Jonathan Scanlon, and Foxy Tickleweed.Biographical details
Peter Glantz was born on the winter solstice. He currently lives in the only house in Lincoln Woods State Park, Rhode Island. He lives with his partner Meredith SternMeredith Stern
Meredith Stern is an artist, musician and DJ living in Providence, Rhode Island.-Biography:...
and their cats Magellan
Magellan
Magellan may refer to:*Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer who led part of the first expedition around the world*Magellan , a progressive rock band*Magellan , a forerunner of the Excite web portal...
(aka Jello
Jello
Jello may refer to:* Jello Shoecompany, an Austrian shoe retailer* Jell-O, a brand name for gelatin desserts* A genericized brand for gelatin desserts in general* Sphyraena jello the pickhandle barracuda-People:...
) and Gandalf
Gandalf
Gandalf is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. In these stories, Gandalf appears as a wizard, member and later the head of the order known as the Istari, as well as leader of the Fellowship of the Ring and the army of the West...
(aka The Ghost). Stern is a member of the Justseeds
Justseeds
Justseeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized artist cooperative that sells art online. Justseeds collaborates with and supports social movements....
artist collective.
External links
- IMDB
- Load Records website
- Killing My Lobster website
- Beatbots
- Free Matter For The Blind
- Dusted Magazine website
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