a top performer in every medium of storytelling
Brendan Andolsek Bradley is a multi-award winning actor, writer, director and producer with over 100 IMDb credits, 50+ million online views, and trained at The Royal Academy in London, New York University’s Tisch School and The Groundlings. He established The Innovation Lab at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and was the “face” of Staples for three years as the company’s international spokesperson in over 50 commercials.
While continuing to work in film and television today, Brendan’s passion as a technologist expands into performance capture, voiceover and XR/VR technologies for live virtual performance.
As a Creator, Brendan is known as “America’s Scrappy Storyteller” making and supporting micro-budget projects and storytellers without access to traditional resources and audiences.
About Brendan
Over 100+ professional credits in film, television, interactive media, including appearances on CBS, ABC, NBC, Viacom, Disney, PBS, YouTubeRED, Netflix and over 50 television and radio commercials and films featured in festivals world-wide, notably The Sundance Film Festival, SXSW and Methodfest.
Actor in 100 series & films
When Brendan’s not in front of a camera, he can often be found behind a microphone. With voice work ranging from traditional radio advertising and animation to soundtracks and co-hosting two long-running podcasts; Brendan loves bringing his voice to new creative projects!
Voiceover & Music
Brendan often works at the cutting edge of technology and performance as an internationally recognized pioneer in interactive and immersive storytelling. He has provided performance capture for video games like Resident Evil: Village and Marvel’s Midnight Suns. Brendan also stars in several live virtual reality projects which he performs around the world, taking home top awards at festivals like SXSW and becoming a Finalist for The Producer Guild of America’s Innovation Award.
Interactive & Immersive
Scrappy Storyteller
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Brendan’s own story is a series of 'fiascos,' a term he borrowed from Italian glass blowing when a wine bottle with any flaws is salvaged into a flask. This celebration of imperfection and resourcefulness captures Brendan’s lifelong culture of ingenuity and experimentation to tell new stories without access to traditional resources and funding. As a scrappy storyteller, Brendan has proudly championed micro-budget projects and initiatives in almost every medium, format and continent.
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His first original webseries, Squatters was named "the best indie comedy on the internet" by Tubefilter News. He cold-called tourism boards to sponsor his first feature film, built a spaceship in his one bedroom apartment and virtual reality for an original sci-fi series, and taught himself 3D animation and DIY motion capture to modernize Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Since the pandemic first struck, Brendan has helped over 50 artists make and monetize their remote storytelling projects in 2D and 3D techniques.
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Brendan produced his first “fiasco” when his high school didn’t have an auditorium and the nearest community theatre was over an hour away. Without generous support, guidance and access from his family, mentors, and community, he would never have found a career in the arts. Whether giving workshops to inspire and empower creative teams, mentoring youth through programs like Young Storytellers or establishing his own Lab at New York University since 2017, Brendan is passionate about giving back in service of the next generation of storytelling.
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OCT 2024 • Keynote • Avignon University “The Next Act: Evaluating Tools and Envisioning the Future of VR Theatre”
FEB 2024 • Workshop • Texas A&M University “Devised Theatre in New Technology”JAN 2024 • Guest Speaker • Actors Equity Regional Branch (UK) “Performers on the Picket Line & Social Media”
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NOV 2023 • Headliner • VR Awards, de Doelen, Netherlands
OCT 2023 • Panelist • Webinar: A.I. in Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
APR 2023 • Guest Lecturer • James Madison University, Virginia
MAR 2023 • Panelist • United States Institute of Theatre Technology, St. Louis “Live Theater in VR”
FEB 2023 • Panelist • The Academy of International Extended Reality “Art and the Metaverse”
FEB 2023 • Guest Lecturer • Goldsmiths University, London “Acting for Video Games”
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DEC 2022 • Presenter • SIGGRAPH Asia, South Korea “Creating Intimacy in Virtual Reality Theatre”
NOV 2022 • Speaker • Open Online Theatre, UK “Safety in the Metaverse”
JUN 2022 • Panelist • SF Design Week “Live Theater in the Metaverse”
JUN 2022 • Speaker • Augmented Reality Expo “OnBoarding New Audiences”
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AUG 2021 • Panelist • SIGGRAPH “Acting in Virtual Reality”
MAY 2021 • Panelist • WebXR Dev Summit
MAY 2021 • Panelist • The Producer Guild of America "Meet the Innovation Awards Finalists”
APR 2021 • Speaker • Microsoft Mixed Reality Series “A Peek Behind the Virtual Curtain”
FEB 2021 • Presenter • The Polys WebXR Awards “Live Halftime Show in the Metaverse”
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DEC 2020 • Panelist • No Proscenium “XR Theatre Panel”
OCT 2020 • Presenter • Baltic House Festival
OCT 2020 • Presenter • Museum of Science, Boston “The Future Stages”
SEP 2020 • Guest Lecturer • Ithaca College
SEP 2020 • Guest Lecturer • Southern Mississippi University
AUG 2020 • Guest Lecturer • Purchase College
JUN 2020 • Panelist • Theatre Communications Group
Creative Futurist
As a creator, Brendan has always been curious about the dialogue between the performer-technician and has experience in every mode and format of narrative storytelling.
During the 2020 shutdown, Brendan release free tools and tutorials for creators trapped at home, earning him recognition as a pioneer in live virtual reality events and performance, most notably the #FutureStages, 5th Wall Forum and OnBoardXR.
Brendan’s VR play, Jettison, was a Finalist for the Producers Guild of America’s Innovation Award and he has starred in the award-winning productions of Welcome to Respite, Gumball Dreams and Non-Player Character, performing both virtually and in-person at festivals and venues around the world.
Press
Brendan is grateful for any coverage, interviews, panels, appearances, hosting and speaking engagements throughout the world.
