acting updates
2023/2024 acting stuff:
February 2024: Mary Glen plays Bernie in Tantrum East's narrative podcast Murder We Spoke, written by Rachel Bykowski and directed by Lila Rachel Becker.
November 2023: Mary Glen stars opposite Patricia Charbonneau in the short film Sunday, written by Janell Tryon and directed by Janell Tryon and Hannah Caggiano.
July 2023: Understudied five roles and went on as Beulah and Sister Temple in Orpheus Descending at Theatre for a New Audience.
June-July 2023: Acted in the short film Sunset Rock, written and directed by Emrys Eller.
2022-2023: Mary Glen is awarded Best Performance at Renegade Film Festival, and nominated for Best Actress in a Feature at Garden State Film Festival and for Best Actress at GenreBlast Film Festival, for her performance in STAG.
fire work
(PLAY: PLAYWRIGHT)
May 2024: fire work is a finalist for the 2024 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
April 2024: fire work is one of four full-length readings featured in NNPN's 2024 National Showcase of New Plays at Queens Theatre
March 2025: fire work will receive its World Premiere production as part of The Unicorn Theatre's 2024-2025 Season.
AVA!
(pilot script: screenwriter)
March 2024: AVA! is one of 6 finalists (out of 432 submissions) for the Downtown Alliance's Filmmaker in Chief program.
EDIT ANNIE
(PLAY: PLAYWRIGHT, VIDEO DESIGN & VIDEO EDITING)
crowded fire theater
san francisco, 2023
West Coast Premiere
Video Design & Video Editing by Mary Glen
"a world-shattering show."
"a coup de theater"
"searing and inventive"
"dialogue that feels so fresh and true you think you could overhear it right outside the theater’s walls or mistakenly believe you’ve met the characters before."
"a storytelling surprise so chilling you have to redraw your expectations of what humanity is capable of and how low we can sink."
"the highly regarded West Coast premiere of Edit Annie by Mary Glen Fredrick"
The Vortex
austin, 2022
World Premiere
Video Design, Cinematography, & Video Editing by Mary Glen
-Outstanding Production of a Drama
-Original Script
-Outstanding Direction of a Drama
-Outstanding Media Design
-Outstanding Lead Performer in a Drama
-Outstanding Featured Performer in a Drama
-Best Small Cast
-Set Design
-Sound Design
-Properties Design
-Special Citation: Claymation Design, Sofia Canestaro
OTHER ACCOLADES:
-Semifinalist, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
-Finalist, Neukom Literary Arts Award for Playwriting
-Finalist, The Leah Playwriting Prize
M∀GICKY
(short film: writer, director, editor)
May 2024: M∀GICKY premieres at Maryland Film Festival.
June 2023: M∀GICKY wins a Pano Network Microgrant.
April 2023: Mary Glen wraps post-production on M∀GICKY - their short film mockumentary about two teams competing in the National Collegiate Witchcraft Competition. MG wrote, directed, and edited the film.
STAG
(feature film: Actor)
Past:
2022-2023: STAG screens at Soho International Film Festival (Audience Choice Award), Brooklyn Film Festival, Portland Film Festival, Female Eye Film Festival, Portland Horror Film Festival, Atlanta Horror Film Festival, Renegade Film Festival, Soho Horror Film Festival, GenreBlast Film Festival (Best Actress nomination), Garden State Film Festival (Best Actress in a Feature nomination), Renegade Film Festival (Best Performance), San Antonio Film Festival,
REVIEWS:
"The film follows the exceptionally cast and equally well-acted Mary Glen Fredrick. It turns out Mary Glen is a Toni Collette doppelgänger with wonderful comedic timing and a bottomless barrel of sly looks." -The Scariest Things
"Mary Glen Fredrick is an acting tour-de-force here, with masterful comic and thriller timing." -The Scariest Things
"Mary Glen Fredrick, who blows it out of the water in her feature-length acting debut" -Morbidly Beautiful
"Absolutely the breakout star of this movie." -Victims and Villains
"Mary Glen Fredrick is the emotional anchor for the film...Fredrick's performance juxtaposes with the rest of the cast exceptionally." -Cinefied
been so good
(SHORT film: writer, Actor, producer)
Past:
2022: Been So Good screens at Cucalorus Film Festival and Bushwick Film Festival.
anything valuable
(SHORT film script: writer, Actor)
Past:
2021: Mary Glen's short film script Anything Valuable (with director/creative partner Annalise Lockhart) was selected for Tribeca x Chanel's Through Her Lens Women's Filmmaker Program.
PRESS:
Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, Teen Vogue, L'Officiel, The Cut.