For theatre, Glyn's play Lily Jones' Birthday, a new version of Lysistrata, was recently produced at RADA's Vanbrugh Theatre, while Blind Eye Crying, his adaptation of Hecuba/The Women of Troy, will premiere in Spring 2011 (director Alex Clifton). Other plays include Liberty (Globe and UK tour), The Only Girl in the World (Arcola), Broken Journey (Hen & Chickens, Theatre 3, NY), The Lifeblood (British Theatre Guide's ‘Best Play on the Fringe' 2004 Edinburgh Festival, Riverside Studios). His plays are published by Oberon Books.
For opera, his several libretti include The Lion's Face (Composer Elena Langer) premiered at this year's Brighton Festival, followed by UK tour including Palace Theatre Watford and the Linbury Studio at the Royal Opera House this July (The Opera Group); Seven Angels (Composer Luke Bedford), inspired by Milton's Paradise Lost, will premiere in 2011 (BCMG and Opera Group). Other works include Ariadne, and The Girl of Sand (both Almeida Opera Festivals, Composer Elena Langer), and The Birds (The Opera Group City of London Festival/UK Tour ) for the composer Edward Dudley Hughes and the singers I Fagiolini.
Glyn has also written extensively for radio including an adaptation of Dostoevsky's The Gambler (starring Patricia Routledge) for BBC Radio 3, and The Herald in the Sky (a recent response From Fact to Fiction for BBC R4). For the screen, Glyn has been commissioned by the UK Film Council to write a feature provisionally entitled Witchgrass, based on his play Mimi and the Stalker.
He has won several awards for his poetry, including the E.M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997), and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for The Nerve (2004). His latest poetry collection, Hide Now, was shortlisted for both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes (2009).
