Glenn Carter
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Glenn Carter (b. 27th March 1964) is an English stage actor and singer-songwriter known particularly for his leading roles in musicals staged in London's West End, the pinnacle of the commercial theatre profession in the United Kingdom. He is a longtime leader of the British branch of the international UFO cult called the Raëlian Movement. The Raelian Movement earned worldwide fame in December 2002 for claiming to have produced the first human clone without offering any documentary or photographic evidence, a controversy in which Carter took part.
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[edit] Early life
Carter was born in Staffordshire, England and grew up in Liverpool.[citation needed]
[edit] Performing career
[edit] West End productions
Carter has appeared on London's West End stages in musical productions such as Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Chess, Whistle Down the Wind, and Les Misérables.[1] In 2008, Carter performed the role of "Tommy DeVito" in the London premiere of the musical, Jersey Boys.
[edit] Acting award claim
According to Glenn Carter's official personal website (as of August 2008), he won a "Drama League Most Outstanding Performance in a Musical Award" for his performance as Jesus in the Broadway production,[2] but according to Infoplease, the Drama League neither gave any awards to the 2000 Broadway production of Jesus Christ Superstar (in which Carter indeed was cast as Jesus) nor had an award entitled "Most Outstanding Performance in a Musical".[3] Carter has been cast as Jesus in at least two productions of Jesus Christ Superstar.[4] In 1996, 23 years after the close of the original production of Jesus Christ Superstar, the Really Useful Theatre Company revived the work in the West End, during which production Carter replaced the actor portraying Jesus. In 1998, Really Useful mounted a touring production in the UK which did not include Carter in any of the leading roles. In 1999, Really Useful announced plans to tour North America with the production but eventually curtailed the tour to just Broadway, and Carter was cast as Jesus in this production.[1]
[edit] Other
Carter has also worked in repertory theatre at the Derby Playhouse, his most recent role being Buzz Aldrin in Moonlanding. He has played roles in the TV shows The Bill and Doctors.
He has released two albums: Three Miles High and 2wice Around The Sun.[citation needed]
[edit] Involvement with the Raelian Movement
Carter has been a leading member of the UK branch of the Raelian Movement since 2002, being variously described in 2008 as its UK president[5] [6], UK leader[7] and UK spokesperson[8]. In 2002, in the week following the Raelian claim to have cloned a human, Carter told the press the evidence would be supplied in the next few days[9] and in February 2003 it was announced he would shortly participate in a panel debate on the ethics of human cloning before an audience of Oxford University students.[10] [11] According to Raelian doctrine, humans were created by four foot tall aliens and the organization's head, Rael (former auto racer Claude Vorilhon) founded the Movement in 1973 at the instigation of one of the aliens. Rael has declared that the world should be governed in the form of a "money-less society governed by a World College of Geniuses".[8]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Internet Movie Database, Glenn Carter page
- ^ Carter's official personal website, home page
- ^ Infoplease online, 67th Annual Drama League Awards announced May 2001
- ^ Tim Rice Website, Jesus Christ Superstar page
- ^ Official Glenn Carter Website, unlinked page
- ^ Rael.org, "Meet Raelians". Retrieved on 2008-08-21.
- ^ Rael Press, item.98.1 (21 June 2008)
- ^ a b Rael Press, item.90.1 (13 May 2008)
- ^ "Calls for UK review of cloning". BBC News (2002-12-28). Retrieved on 2008-08-21.
- ^ The Oxford Student, 2003-02-06 "Raelian cloning debate" (2003-02-06). Retrieved on 2008-08-21.
- ^ The Oxford Student, 2003-02-13 "Raelians!" (2003-02-13). Retrieved on 2008-08-21.
[edit] References
- Caplan, Arthur. 2003. Media bungled clone claim coverage. MSNBC, 3 January 2003.
- Infoplease.com. Drama League Awards.
- International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. International Emmies Website.
- Internet Movie Database.
- The Oxford Student
- Rael.org.
- Raelpress.org (online press release center of the Raelian Church).
- Schwitzer, Gary. 2003. Cloning announcement spawns ethical debate. Bulletin of University of Minnesota Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law, Winter 2003.
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