Brian was trained at Contra Costa Ballet with Donald Eryck, Jocelyn Vollmar, and Brynar Mehl, and at Manhattan School of Dance with Margaret Craske, Sallie Wilson, Tex Hightower and Robert Ossorio. In Modern Dance he trained at the Martha Graham and the Paul Taylor Schools. He has choreographed for Ballet, Musicals, and Opera, and has created many Dance/Theater works including Seeing Red, The Defenders, The BoyKing, Tales of November, The Emperor’s New Clothes and The Happy Hour. He has won the Grand Prize for Choreography for his duet Samael loves Lilith, at the Dance Under the Stars Festival of Palm Desert produced by Shea New. He has a Garland Award for best choreography for his work in Zoo District’s production of Nosferatu. He also has an LA Weekly Theater Award for his choreography in The Master and Margarita, also by Zoo District. He has directed and choreographed The Defenders, an homage to the great spy shows of the 60’s, which garnered a Garland Award honorable mention for Choreography, Costume Design, and Set Design. He received Best Hamlet on the Fringe for his choreography of Hamlet Q. Jones, a rock and roll musical Hamlet at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, and won The Jerry Herman Award for his version of In The Heights. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from UCLA where he earned his B.A. degree in Anthropology and a minor in Classical Civilizations. While at UCLA he was awarded the Hazel Lagerson Scholarship and qualified for the prestigious Helen Caldwell Award given by the Classics Department.
