As a writer and creative artist, Brian is driven by the idea that we become the stories we tell ourselves.

After growing up in Lincoln, NE, he studied acting at NYU and then at the Yale School of Drama.

Brian has performed in venues all around New York City (Manhattan Theater Club, La Mama), nationally, and internationally (The National Theatre, London; The Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh; Culturegest; Lisbon). On screen his work has been seen on CBS, Lifetime, HBO, Starz, NBC and in numerous feature films and national commercials

Brian is a founding member of The TEAM, the Brooklyn-based ensemble helmed by Tony winning director Rachel Chavkin. As a performer and co-writer, TEAM original plays have gone on to tour the United States and internationally including Canada, Ireland, England, Scotland, Portugal, Austria, Hong Kong, and Australia. TEAM shows have made annual “Top Ten” or “Best of” lists on three continents, and in 2019 The Guardian voted Mission Drift one of the 50 best plays of the 21st century.

Brian also performed with seminal New York-based company Tectonic Theater Project on the NY premier of Tectonic’s Uncommon Sense, a play interweaving stories and lives of people on the autism spectrum.

Powerful storytelling is not confined to theatre or film. A functioning democracy must mean, at base, that everyone has a vote, a voice, and is free to tell their own story. To that end, Brian spoke at TEDxSeattle about the power of local level democracy and the correlation between who gets to vote and who gets treated with the respect of full personhood by our government,

He created Hold the Floor with producer Alyssa Simmons. A live-streamed, 24-hour-and-19-minute long community filibuster (beating the record before Cory Booker did it) to call attention to the systems that silence the voices of certain groups in our country while amplifying the voices of others. Brian hosted the entirety with guests including artists, activists, and office holders. The event raised money for voter registration for the 2020 election.

He criss-crossed the country to interview ordinary (yet extraordinary) people running for local- and state-level office for his podcast Local Selection in an effort to make local democracy sexy (it is)!

When he’s not making art, Brian coaches actors, public speakers, and political candidates on how to look your audience in the eyes, tell the truth, and make ‘em feel it.

Brian currently lives in Los Angeles with his fiancée and their dog, Peanut Butter.