  | Bio "The starting point for both the humor and the pathos" according the Oregonian, Brian Allard has become a mainstay of the Portland Acting Community. Since arriving in 2006 from New York, where he appeared off Broadway in The Tempest with Manhattan Rep and Aurora Leigh at Ensemble Studio Theater, Brian has delighted Portland audiences with multiple captivating performances each year.
Upcoming in 2012, Brian will be directing several projects for Pulp Diction III as well as appearing in the lead role of Callisto Balendash in They at the Backdoor Theatre. Brian is also the newest member of the Fuse Theatre Ensemble, where he will be appearing in Karaoke Night: The Musical, Sonnetscape, and co-directing A Midsummer Nights Dream in Bagby Forest. Come summer 2012, Brian will be returning to the outdoor stages of the Original Practice Shakespeare Festival in As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet. Previous successes have included the lead role of Peter in CoHo Productions' Tales of Ordinary Madness, Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice with the Quintessence Language and Imagination Theater, the TNT television show Leverage, and Allen in bobrauschenbergamerica with Portland Playhouse for which the Willamette Week singled him out as "particularly entertaining." |
