YOUR VOICE with Brooklin: Devon Glover (Season 1 Episode 3)

Your Voice! Creative Careers, with Brooklin

Part 1 of my interview with Devon Glover.

Devon Glover is a teacher, rapper, poet, playwright, and actor from Brooklyn, New York. He performs Shakespeare's Sonnets through Hip-Hop as The Sonnet Man in schools and theaters worldwide. Devon has appeared on NBC, MSNBC, BBC, and Conferences and Shakespeare Festivals worldwide, including Stratford, Ontario, and Stratford-upon-Avon. He has taught with Stratford Shakespeare, Passion in Practice, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust and Southern Shakespeare, among others. Devon has written adaptations of Shakespeare for various theatre companies. In 2016, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Devon went on a Sonnet Marathon tour through the US, UK, and Morocco, where he rapped all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets in succession on the Bard’s birthday. In the fall 2017, Devon co-wrote “A Town Divided” , an adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet” based in Tallahassee, FL. In the Summer 2019, Devon was commissioned by Shakespeare Birthplace Trust to write a hip-hop adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (Lyrica). In 2022, Glover made his directorial debut, directing Othello for Flagstaff Shakespeare. In the Summer 2023, Devon was hired to compose and create sound design for Prague Shakespeare’s ‘Roman Daggers’, a mash-up adaptation of Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra, where he also took on the role of Cinna The Poet. For more information, visit www.SonnetMan.com.