Glenn Belverio

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Glenn Belverio is a film and video maker who lives and works in New York City. In 1990, he began producing the popular Manhattan Cable series The Brenda and Glennda Show (later Glennda and Friends), a talk show that took the art of drag out of nightclubs and into the streets, mixing politics with humor.

Glenn co-hosted the show as Glennda Orgasm with Brenda Sexual (Duncan Elliott). It featured provocative co-stars such as queer filmmaker Bruce LaBruce and guerrilla scholar Camille Paglia. Belverio and Paglia’s collaborative project Glennda and Camille Do Downtown later became a short film and premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. 

Glenn’s work has screened at venues such as ICA London, the Walker Art Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Wexner Center for the Arts, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, UnionDocs, the Brooklyn Museum, Anthology Film Archives, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. In October 2025 his video One Man Ladies will be featured in the MoMA PS1 exhibition Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product. 

  • People gathered in an outdoor urban setting during a daytime event with media coverage, including a woman holding a microphone and a man with sunglasses, showcasing lively street scene and crowd engagement.

    Glenn Belverio: Downtown

    4 September 2025

    Downtown is the site of permanent cultural war. Glenn Belverio’s recorded the cast of characters, including Camille Paglia and Bruce LaBruce, who dominated New York’s cultural scene in the 1990s.

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