
GLENN RAINEY has enjoyed a twenty-five year career as
an actor, singer and musician.
After college at the University of Georgia, he began his professional
acting career in Atlanta at night while working in the corporate world
by day in the fields of corporate communication and public relations.
After a few years of performing with small professional theatre companies,
he got his Equity card at Theatre Emory at Atlanta’s Emory University.
Glenn is probably best remembered by Atlanta audiences for his portrayal
of the junk food-eating psychopath Otto Woodnick in Horizon Theatre’s
production of Nicky Silver’s black comedy The Food Chain,
for which he was named Atlanta’s Best Actor in 1998 by the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
Glenn also worked on the television series "In The Heat of the Night"
and "Savannah", as well as the films Cobb, Midnight in the
Garden of Good and Evil, The Shaggy Dog, and Disney's upcoming
Enchanted..
After working in several regional theatres, and while performing in the
North Shore Music Theatre production of Oliver, a move to New
York in 1999 proved very successful when Glenn was cast in the first national
tour of Beauty and the Beast. He subsequently made his Broadway
debut at the Palace Theatre in May of 2000.
In addition to his roles as the Bookseller and Monsieur D’Arque
in Beauty, he understudied and performed the roles of Cogsworth
and Maurice. He closed the Broadway company of Beauty in the summer of 2007 in the role of Cogsworth. Glenn is a member and featured vocalist with Broadway Inspirational
Voices, an interfaith, multicultural gospel choir under the direction
of Tony-nominated Michael McElroy. The choir has recorded three CD’s,
the latest of which is the Grammy-nominated Great Joy! A Gospel Christmas.
The choir has worked with such artists as Stephanie Mills, Patti Labelle,
Vanessa Williams, Deborah Cox, Oleta Adams, and Tony winner Phylicia Rashad,
who is also a choir member.
On December 13 of 2004, Glenn made his cabaret debut at New York’s
Triad Club in his one-man show, Blue-Eyed Soul. Another
highlight of 2004 was recording with Clay Aiken on his Merry Christmas
with Love CD, produced by the legendary Phil Ramone. Glenn is currently
working on several new musical theatre projects, a new one-man show for
2009, and was a featured vocalist for the soundtracks of the
Disney films The Shaggy Dog, starring Tim Allen and Robert Downey,
Jr., as well as Disney's live action/animation film Enchanted,
starring Susan Sarandon, Amy Adams and James Marsden.