Baker Artist Portfolios

As a composer, sound designer, performer, lighting designer, and video artist, Glenn Ricci has been working with time-­based media for over three decades. As a founder and Co-artistic Director of Submersive Productions, Glenn has engaged with over one hundred local artists in a unique and evolving collaborative process that melds design, performance, and world-building to create unique, impactful audience experiences.

For the past ten years, Glenn has focused on creating fully experiential artworks and exploring their potential as an unexpected and memorable form of storytelling. By creating experiences that can be explored from many perspectives at once, his work is in constant conversation with the audience, bringing them into the center of the meaning-making process and letting them each construct their own narrative.

As Co-producer , Co-director, and soundtrack composer for "The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe" in 2015, Glenn created Baltimore's longest-running, wholly devised immersive theater piece, performing 62 sold-out shows over the Spring and Fall of 2015. "Revelations!" was a fully explorable world, built inside Enoch Pratt's historic home, and activated by performance, sound, music, light, design, art installation, history, and fiction, with several concurrent narratives for the audience to choose from. For this highly collaborative work, Glenn marshaled a team of over 30 members to develop, devise, build, and operate what became a national attraction with visitors traveling from as far as California, New York, Canada, and London.

Since 2015, Submersive has created over two dozen newly devised, fully immersive experiences, many of which are documented in this portfolio. As a member of the core creative team on all mentioned projects, Glenn’s ultimate impact may seem elusive, but the consistent quality and critical acclaim for all of Submersive’s works speaks to his role as a common denominator in their creation.

Note: All photos in this portfolio are examples of my photography unless otherwise credited.