About
All The World's a Stage
Devon Glover is a Brooklyn, NY-based performer/teaching artist specializing in Hip Hop, and poetry. He performs Shakespeare’s Sonnets through Hip Hop worldwide as The Sonnet Man. Devon performs and provides workshops regularly as a rapper/poet, director, sound designer and text coach. He has presented thousands of workshops worldwide. Glover is a patron of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, an associate member of Shakespeare Theatre Association, and a proud member of the Teaching Artis Alliance. He is a recurrent guest teaching artist for the Educational Theatre Association and performed assemblies for Academic Entertainment for 10 years from 2013-2023. As a writer, Devon has written songs for several companies, including Flocabulary, Lalilo, Arts Partners, Southern Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Behind Bars, and Salty Shakespeare. He works annually with Southern Shakespeare to provide workshops for the students of Leon County Schools. He’s a seasoned musician, dedicated arts educator and passionate arts advocate with over 2 decades of experience. Devon inspires minds and souls through hip hop and poetry, encouraging everyone to find their unique voice and share their stories.
Shakespeare X Hip Hop
The Sonnet Man sets Shakespeare’s love sonnets to Hip Hop and features brilliant rap artist Devon Glover. Conceived and produced by Broadway Playwright Arje Shaw, The Sonnet Man brings Shakespeare to young audiences in a genre they know and love. Through Hip Hop, Shakespeare will become exciting and fun, introducing young people to classical literature, raising literacy, improved communication, greater enthusiasm for learning, increase creativity, raise confidence, and will set a foundation for appreciation of the arts.
Perfect for schools, theatres, and organizations, The Sonnet Man offers performance and workshop to both entertain and educate. Featured artist Devon Glover, a modern day Sonnet Man, delivers the sonnets as originally written, and then breaks it down into “spoken word.” Mr. Glover’s flow embodies the richness of Shakespeare’s language, and his passionate, yet natural delivery offers an inspiring, creative experience audiences love.
Mr. Glover’s story is an inspiration in itself. Born and raised along with two brothers by a single mom in Brooklyn, he has strived all his life to make something of himself and to give back. He went through the New York City Public School system and is a graduate of Ithaca College. Mr. Glover began conducting workshops/performances in Harlem, Queens and Brooklyn in The Sonnet Man’s infant stages. Since then, Devon has performed The Sonnet Man live over 40 states, 4 continents (North America, Asia, Africa and Europe), and has worked live and virtually in over 20 countries.
Devon Glover was featured on The Today Show with a tremendous national response. The producer said, “I’ve never had so many emails from people saying how much they enjoyed the story and especially the song!”