John Glancy

John Glancy is an Experience Development Manager at the National Trust where he helps develop and create programmes for family audiences at over 500 National Trust properties 700 miles of coastline in three countries. Before this he worked for the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi helping build Zayed National Museum the first national Museum in the United Arab Emirates. John started his heritage career at Imperial War Museums and left as the Executive Producer for Schools and Families.

The decade prior to joining IWM he worked as an actor, director, producer, facilitator and tea maker at various regional theatres across the UK including the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh and the Lyric Hammersmith in West London. At the Lyceum John also led the Lyceum Youth Theatre LYT (One of Scotland’s largest and leading Youth Theatre companies) for five years and during his tenure he took LYT out of its building and into some of Edinburgh’s most disadvantaged communities (Including the one he grew up in) as he truly believes that culture should be for all. .
John didn’t go to university choosing to enter the creative industries through the apprentice route (All whilst juggling café and call centre work to pay the bills) he believes that there is no “correct path” to a successful career it’s a just a case of how scenic a route you want to take to get there.

Although a proud product of North Edinburgh John currently resides In Manchester. when not working John is a massive history buff which he balances with his other great passion professional wrestling. He is also a director of the Story Museum In Oxford and occasional writer on engagement practise.