GLEN MORTIMER

Glen directed the feature film “Sweet Snogs The Movie” in 2007. His next project is directing the feature film “Seeing Smoke” due for release mid 2009. Glen is also connected with Ultimatum films ltd as a co-director and is Senior Vice president of Shadowhawk Films (uk) in charge of productions & acquisitions. You can find out more about Ultimatum and Shadowhawk by visiting the following websites:
www.ultimatumfilms.com  www.shadowhawkfilms.com 

Glen comes from an acting background. It was in the mid nineties when he became known as a professional actor gaining featured parts such as a Dingle in Emmerdale Farm; speaking and featured roles in At Home With The Braithwaites, Coronation Street, Heartbeat, Last of the Summer Wine, The Darling Buds of May, Stay Lucky, The New Statesman, The Grand, A & E, All Creatures Great and Small, Till We Meet Again, A Touch of Frost, Brookside, Hillsborough, The Luddites, and many more. He has also been cast as the main part in television commercials for Websters Yorkshire Bitter, DFS Furniture and Express Dairies. Glen's theatre experience is also vast. He has had lead roles in numerous plays, Allo Allo, Rough Justice, Neville’s Island, Two, Oliver Twist, Kafka's Dick and King Lear to name a few. He has also directed or produced many shows and plays over the last 15 years and toured with many of them.

“As a director, it is always important to understand that any piece of acting whether it be a small monologue or a full blown show, is entertaining to the watching public. Acting is not performed to entertain ourselves, it’s to entertain others, and we should learn and rehearse as such. Actors come in many shapes and sizes and with varying degrees of experience, but the wisest of them realise that as an actor, you never cease to learn. Many actors are comfortable in specific roles, it is the roles of characterization that an actor is uncomfortable with (and every actor has them), that need to be focused and worked upon. The more varied your acting ability, the better your chances of success!”