Actor in 100+ stage & screen
Brendan has appeared in over 100+ professional credits in stage, film, tv, and interactive; as well as over 50 television and radio commercials. His own creative projects have been featured in festivals world-wide, with multiple years at The Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Venice, and as a Finalist for The Producer Guild of America’s Innovation Award.
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THE STUDIO dir. Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg
9-1-1 dir. Maggie Kiley
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SOAP BOX dir. Andrew Jay Cohen
THE DEVIL & THE DAYLONG BROTHERS dir. Brandon McCormick
SUCCUBUS dir. R.J. Daniel Hanna
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2026 Repertory Season
WELCOME TO RESPITE dir. Lyndsie ScogginGUMBALL DREAMS dir. Deirdre V. Lyons
UNCANNY ALLEY dir. Stephen Butchko
Scrappy Storyteller
Brendan creates with a bias toward action under the motto “Do The Thing, Make The Thing.” He affectionally calls his creative work “fiascos,” a term from Italian glass-blowing which finds beauty and utility within imperfection.
Brendan produced his first play when his high school didn’t have an auditorium. His playwriting debut was in a rooftop swimming pool. 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. He built a spaceship in his one bedroom apartment and in virtual reality for an original sci-fi series, and taught himself 3D animation and DIY motion capture to modernize Shakespeare’s Macbeth. During the pandemic, Brendan helped hundreds artists make and monetize their remote storytelling projects using virtual filmmaking and interactive techniques.
In 2017, he established The Innovation Lab at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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JUN 2025 • Panel • Roundabout Theatre Company “Directing Immersive Experiences”
JUN 2025 • Workshop • The Membership “From Script to Pre-Production”JUN 2025 • Event • NYU Los Angeles “Speed Mentorship Event ”
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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
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Brendan is grateful for any coverage, interviews, panels, appearances, hosting and speaking engagements throughout the world.
