Brendan Gall Explained

Brendan Gall
Birth Date:1978 9, mf=yes
Birth Place:Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Occupation:film and television writer, producer, actor, playwright
Period:2000s-present
Notableworks:Blindspot, The L.A. Complex, The Go-Getters, Dakota, Wide Awake Hearts, Alias Godot, A Quiet Place

Brendan Gall (born September 2, 1978) is a Canadian writer, actor and producer living in Toronto, Ontario.

Early life and education

Gall graduated from the George Brown Theatre School.

Career

Gall has written and/or produced for the television series Blindspot, Open Heart, and The L.A. Complex, the CBC Radio drama series Afghanada, the feature films The Lovebirds, The Go-Getters, and Dakota, and stage plays such as Panhandled, A Quiet Place,[1] Alias Godot[2] and Wide Awake Hearts.[3]

As an actor, he has had lead or recurring roles on the series Remedy, Good God, Overruled!, and Men With Brooms, and guest appearances on Covert Affairs, The L.A. Complex, Against The Wall, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, and . He has also appeared in the films Remember, The Captive, Stag, Let's Rap[4] and Dakota, and in numerous theatrical works, including the world premiere (and subsequent remounts) of Hannah Moscovitch's East of Berlin and the 2014 Toronto production of Duncan Macmillan's Lungs which garnered him a 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Actor.[5] [6]

A playwright in residence at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre from 2007 to 2017 and artistic director of his own theatre companies Single Threat and The Room, he has been nominated for four Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding New Play: twice in 2008 for Alias Godot and A Quiet Place, again in 2009 for The Gladstone Variations, and finally in 2011 for Wide Awake Hearts. Wide Awake Hearts and A Quiet Place were published by Coach House Books in 2010 under the title Minor Complications: Two Plays. The title was a shortlisted nominee in the English-language drama category of the 2011 Governor General's Awards. Gall has also been nominated twice for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award.

Bibliography

Screenplays
Teleplays
Stage Plays
Collections

Awards and nominations

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Strong and Quiet. 2008-01-10. NOW Magazine. 2017-05-02. en-us.
  2. Web site: Alias Godot Gets North American Premiere April 22 in Toronto Playbill. Playbill. en. 2017-03-16.
  3. News: Review: 'Wide Awake Hearts' and the ABC's of Infidelity. Collins-hughes. Laura. 2016-01-21. The New York Times. 2017-03-16. 0362-4331.
  4. Web site: With Characters That I Play, I Love Them.. 2016-01-12. Film Courage. 2017-05-02.
  5. Web site: Lungs a breath of fresh air at Tarragon Theatre: review Toronto Star. thestar.com. 6 March 2014 . 2017-03-16.
  6. Web site: My Theatre Award Nominee: Q&A w/ Brendan Gall ยป My Theatre My Entertainment World. www.myentertainmentworld.ca. 29 March 2015 . en-US. 2017-05-02.

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