Brian is an award-winning writer, director, and producer whose work ranges from the stage to screen. His first short film Counting Water - produced for $17 - has been screened at over 20 film festivals across the globe, from Los Angeles to New York, Lisbon to Paris. It screened at the Slamdance Film Festival, won a Special Jury Award for Best Short at the Atlanta Film Festival, was broadcast on PBS, and showed at LACMA. Both Devendra Banhart and Philip Glass contributed music to the piece.
For David Bowie's High Line Festival, Brian produced an outdoor video art installation. And in 2008, he won an MVPA Award for directing the Band Of Horses music video Is There A Ghost. The clip was previously featured in SPIN Magazine's "Best Of" issue. During the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Brian produced a Broadway benefit starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick to raise funds for the Obama effort.
Brian’s background is in theater where he's worked both on Broadway and downtown. Among many other shows, he was Associate Producer of A Raisin in the Sun, starring Sean ‘P. Diddy’ Combs, Phylicia Rashad, Audra McDonald and Sanaa Lathan. The production won two Tony Awards, broke box office records, and was widely recognized for the incredibly young and diverse audience it brought to the theater.
Brian has studied writing and directing at the Samuel Beckett Centre in Dublin, and was one of very few young artists selected to work with legendary playwright Maria Irene Fornes. He has attended Cornell University and holds a B.F.A. from NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts. Brian is currently in post-production with his debut feature film.