Brian is currently a CSA casting associate in Los Angeles, CA and over the last seven years has worked on such TV shows as Pretty Little Liars, 12 Monkeys, The Purge and a bunch of TV pilots that never saw the light of day. He's been in thousands of sessions and so has a bird’s eye view into the current state of acting. In a previous life he was an actor and producer. While in Chicago he founded the Artistic Director of Visions & Voices Theatre Co, a company devoted exclusively to new work. In three years, they produced six shows…four of which were Jeff Award Recommended, two of which won Jeff Awards for Best New Work. Brian created The Actor’s Refuge to help start a dialogue about the state of acting and of actor training in this country. He is not looking to re-invent the wheel, but I does think it’s time to reimagine how we talk about “character” and how we approach character work and in the process, reconnect the actor to the state of joy that ignited their love of acting in the first place. ​