Roderick Glanville is Principal of Kaleidoscope Performing Arts Studio, and a well-known Victoria storyteller and actor.

He began his training with Maxim Mazumdar with the Provincial Drama Academy and touring with curriculum-based programs for young audiences. He was invited to tour and spend six months in Ireland working with the Irish National Ballet as scenic painter, stage manager, and performer on tour. His apprenticeship continued with Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia which included National and International tours of ‘Peter and the Wolf’, and ‘Just So Stories’. In Toronto he studied with the Maggie Basset Studio at the Tarragon theatre under the direction of Lloy Coutts, Richard Monette, and Dean Gilmour. Film and Television credits with the National film board of Canada and Alliance TV with the War of the Worlds series. Roderick spent two seasons with Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach and as company member of Kaleidoscope Theatre for over ten years; he brings a career of twenty–five years performing for young audiences throughout Canada and the U.S. Directing for Kaleidoscope Theatre includes the popular musical ‘The Ant and the Grasshopper’, and ‘The Boy who learned to Fly’, ten years directing with the Young Playwrights Festival.

Favourite roles include ‘Captain Hook’ in Peter Pan, ‘Edgar’ in King Lear for Bard on the Beach, ‘Billy Bishop’ for Victoria Summer Theatre, Expo ‘86 with Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia, Theatre in the Schools for the Stephenville festival and Manitoba’s Theatre for Young People. Roderick has also spent three years as the program producer in education for the Maritime Museum of B.C., gallery animator for the Royal B.C. Museums Da Vinci exhibit, Circus Magicus, and he also works creating interactive programming for Craigdarroch Castle, including his performance of ‘Oscar Remembered’ and ‘Lyric the Leprechaun’.

His one-man adaptation of Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ has been performed all over Vancouver Island. Recently with the Victoria Symphony with his adaptation of ‘Peter and the Werewolf’, and ‘A Soldiers Tale’. Roderick continues to develop storytelling in non-traditional theatre spaces. Roderick uses theatrical role-play and improv to teach and excite our young audiences, and is in his fifth year teaching teens and adult’s theatre and performance with Kaleidoscope’s Performing Arts Studio.