Here is the biography of Glenn Hetrick:
Glenn Hetrick was born and raised in Hellertown, Pennsylvania. His passion for horror films, particularly those of the Universal and Hammer Studios variety, and science fiction/fantasy led him to work on various theatre projects as both an actor and a make-up artist throughout junior and senior high school.
As an undergraduate at York College of Pennsylvania, he landed his first acting role in an independent feature film, which happened to be a horror film. He also worked as a special effects make-up artist on the film, creating numerous prosthetics and gags with a shoestring budget.
Hetrick soon found himself working on an array of indie projects, collaborating with world-renowned musical acts such as Type-O-Negative and horror punk icons the Misfits. That same year, he moved from the East Coast to Los Angeles to facilitate the progression of his acting, writing, and make-up effects career.
Upon arriving in Hollywood, Hetrick found his first foothold at Optic Nerve as a lab technician, fabricator, painter, and eventually sculptor and designer. He worked tirelessly for years on several seasons of Buffy, Angel, and X-Files, among others.
The path of his career led him to opportunities at other studios as well, working with Ve Neil on Pitch Black: Chronicles of Riddick and Bioshock. He continued auditioning and performing as well, landing multiple guest star roles as a character actor in The Shield, Committed, Charmed, Scrubs, and Heroes, as well as various other projects including the first Pirates of the Caribbean film.
Hetrick then returned to the very first shop he had worked at, Optic Nerve, this time as CEO. He reinvented both the business and artistic perspectives of the studio from the ground up, building a new competitive studio model for the modern marketplace. His new focus was on cross-training core crew members so that they could adapt easily to the constant flux of multiple production schedules.
After more than a decade of amazing shows, Hetrick partnered with longtime friend and collaborator Neville Page, evolving the shop into the newly renamed Alchemy Studios. The studio's expanded services include seamless integration with CGI visual effects, 3D conceptual design, and cutting-edge 3D printing techniques.
As CEO, Hetrick personally supervises every effect for his studio's many projects, including hundreds of forensically accurate make-ups and corpses for Crossing Jordan, Hugh Jackman's body replicas for The Prestige, and the surreal effects in Sony's Legion. He continues to work as both an FX artist and performer, with a resume that includes special effects for The Event, custom wardrobe and instruments for Lady Gaga, prosthetic effects and props for Disney's Journey 2: Mysterious Island, Lionsgate's Hunger Games 1, 2, 3, and 4, The Dictator, The Host, Mad Men, Marvel's Agents of SH.I.E.L.D., Steven Spielberg's Extant, and most recently Star Trek Discovery.
Simultaneous to his work as an FX artist, Hetrick continues his development work as a producer on both Necroscope and his own television series based on the classic horror comic franchise Eerie. He also stars in all 13 seasons of the ongoing Syfy hit Face-Off! Future plans include franchising his own brand of live horror entertainment in the form of escape games and an immersive cinematic-inspired haunt experience for Halloween.
