Glenna Broderick
Glenna Broderick
Aerials Coach
All Sessions
Glenna Broderick didn’t start out this way. As a shy college freshman they fell in with the school’s circus club, the Surrealist Training Circus, where they discovered a knack for clowning, learned to dance on stilts and all manner of other absurdities.
Craving athleticism and humor in performative movement, Glenna went to circus school at NECCA in 2009 knowing very little about what they were getting into. The world now has an accidental clown and purposeful aerialist who’s just trying to make art sometimes.
Glenna loves trapeze, rope and partner acro the most, but delights in being a circus generalist. They have lived and taught in New Orleans and Philadelphia, but since 2020, Glenna has lived in Chicago, making street shows and laughing a lot with La Vuelta Ensemble. This will be Glenna’s sixth summer coaching at Smirkus, where they have taught in aerial, clowning and directed two summers of Road Show.