Brian's 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 was 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 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Both Devendra Banhart and Philip Glass contributed music to the piece.
Brian’s background is in theater where he's worked both on Broadway and Off. 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 was also Associate Producer of The Public Theater’s 50th Anniversary, which featured performances by Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Zach Braff, Eartha Kitt, Ben Stiller, and Mike Nichols, among many, many others. The show was directed by Broadway icon James Lapine.
For David Bowie's High Line Festival, Brian produced an outdoor video art installation. And in 2008, he won the MVPA Award for "Best Alternative Music Video" for Band Of Horses' 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.
He 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.