Brian Osborne is a devised theater artist, actor, playwright, director and carpenter. His most recent work, THE WORD: A HOUSE PARTY FOR JESUS, an serio-comic sermon extolling the virtues of voyeurism and perils of playing with gasoline, was created with co-conspirator and director Whit MacLaughlin of New Paradise Laboratories. THE WORD and has been performed in New York (Soho Playhouse) Los Angeles and in Philadelphia (2011 NET Festival) with forthcoming productions in Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Oct 2011), Austin (2012 Fusebox Festival), Chicago and Minneapolis (Open Eye Theater). His 16-person klezmer circus musical, DELICIOUS VAUDEVILLE, was produced in New York by David Binder Productions. He recently collaborated on and performed in the world premiere of Thaddeus Phillips/Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental's WHaLE OPTICS at the 2011 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. He has collaborated on new works with Pig Iron Theater Company, performed in the skate-park adaptation of Oedipus at Colonus, OEDIPUS AT FDR, Co-Directed Kate Watson Wallace's STORE, and wrote text for and performed in WIND-UP at Princeton's Atelier with collaborators David Brick, Dan Rothenberg and Mimi Lien. He is a founding member of New York's Cliplight Theater, for which he has appeared in 6 original productions. OFF BROADWAY he appeared in the arial smash hit DE LA GUARDA and opened the show at The Rio Hotel in Las Vegas for a 1-year run for audiences of 1000 a night. Recent Film & TV credits include SOPHOMORE (forthcoming), LAW & ORDER: SVU, DRIVERS WANTED, THREADBARE, SURE SHOT, and a film adaptation of Harold Pinter's APPLICANT. He studied Theater at Marquette University, has trained as an actor with Alfred Molina, Ada Brown Mather (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), and studied improvisation with The Second City. He is a 2011/2012 Live Arts Brewery Fellow: a philadelphia-based laboratory for supporting the research and development of new cross-genre live performance works.
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