Brendan Kailer Lieb
- Actor
Brendan-Kailer Lieb was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
He trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse School and at the age of 7
joined the Pittsburgh Playhouse Repertory Company. After establishing
himself in his home town with back to back seven highly praised
performances, he moved to New
York where he spent 7 years with the renowned Stella Adler, and nine
years with the legendary Uta Hagen. During this time, he performed with
some of the finest directors and actors in the American theater. He
assisted Uta Hagen with the creation of her book, "A Challenge For The
Actor". He also collaborated with the historic Sonja Moore, who helped
create and introduced the Stanislavsky System to the world, in a series
of three year private work sessions in her New York home. Stella Adler
invited him on a private scholarship, while studying with her to an
invitation only private Master Class with Sir Ian McKellen and later
with Tony Winner Roger Rees. He was invited to study Master
Classes with The National Theater of Great Britain while they performed
in New York. Brendan has appeared in over 70 professional productions
on and off Broadway including as a company member of The Lion Theater
Company, The Classic Stage Company, where he appeared in the eight hour
epic marathon production of "The Orestia" ("Agamemnon", "Elektra",
"Orestes") (OBIE Award) , "La Dispute", "George Dandin" and others over
two years as a company member. He performed at Joseph Papp's The New
York Shakespeare Festival where he appeared with Academy Award Winners
Kevin Kline and F. Murray Abraham in productions of "Two Gentlemen Of
Verona", "Henry V" and Richard Foreman's "The Golem", he created the
role of Danner in the World Premiere of "Machine Dreams" at HB
Playwrights Foundation, was a company member of the legendary, The
Circle Repertory Theater, appeared in director David Dunn Bauer's
highly praised all male production of "The Trojan Woman", The Wooster
Group Theater (as part of "The Ingmar Bergmann Project"), created the
role of The Prince in "Eugene Onegin", and created The Presenter in
Leon Katz's Kabuki acclaimed adaptation of "The Golem". At The Lincoln
Center Theater Company he created Alyosha in "The Brothers Karamazov"
and played Tristan in "Tristan & Isolde". On Broadway he appeared in
"Bloomsday On Broadway" with Dana Ivey and Jeffrey Wright. He also
performed in the World Premier's of "Bravo NY!" and "World Without End"
both at The at Samuel Beckett, Theater He created the role of Drew in
"Project #2" at The Producer's Club as well as playing Creon in
"Oedipus Rex" (for which The New York Post proclaimed his work as, "One
of the greatest classical performances in nearly a decade"), and "No
Trumpets, No Drums" (World Premiere) both directed by Zoë Caldwell at
The American Kaleidoscope Theater. He also was a member of Soho
Repertory Company and appeared at The Mint Theater. He recently played
the role of William in a New York Workshop Stage Production of "Eyes
Wide Shut". Other New York work includes Jimmy in "A Taste Of Honey"
and "A Month In The Country" both at The Roundabout Theater,
"Libertine" and "Byron" at Circle Rep. Regional work includes Gregory
in "Love! Valour! Compassion!", Wilfred Owen in "Not About Heroes",
Michael in "Les Parents Terribles", The Man in David Hare's "The Blue
Room", The Emcee in Sam Mendes' production of "Cabaret", Dan in
"Closer", Solonoy in "The Three Sisters", Romeo in "Romeo & Juliet",
Joe Pitt in "Angels In America" (Parts One "Millennium Approaches" and
Two "Perestroika"), Walter in "Five Finger Exercise", Alan in "Equus",
Marchbanks in "Candida" and Anthony in "Sweeney Todd" at theaters
including the Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh Playhouse and The
Heritage Theater in New Jersey, The New Artists Coalition, The Hartford
Theater, The Chekhov Ensemble and Leon Katz's Lab Theater and others.
On television he appeared in "West Side Waltz" with Oscar Winners
Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates and Liza Minelli for Hallmark Hall Of
Fame for CBS and a reoccurring role on "Silk Stalking". His film work
includes "Milk & Money" with Calista Flockhart, Peter Boyle and Olympia
Dukakis for RKO Pictures and as Fredric Ames in Emmy Award-winning Rich
Ficara's "Lies In Love" for East End Pictures, " which had its world
premiere at The Long Island Film Festival, "The Beautiful Lie..." which
is in Pre Production. Mr. Lieb has also written three plays. His play
"and the rain came down", will have its world premiere in Nashville in
2011. He also trained in Opera with Claudia Pinza and was a scholarship
recipient at New York City Opera. He was also awarded The Constance
Rockwell Performing Arts Award. He appeared at The Pittsburgh Opera and
The Pennsylvania Opera Festival. He is a proud member of The Screen
Actor's Guild and Actor's Equity Association and The Dramatists Guild
of America.