Selected Professional Practice & Industry Work
As performer/creator:
Performances include: 24 Italian Songs & Arias (O Festival Rotterdam, Battersea Arts Centre, Ghent Opera House, Royal Opera House & the Yard Theatre, London)
Fun with Cancer Patients (Installations at 21st Century Museum for Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Fierce Festival, Birmingham; Vooruit, Ghent)
You Have to Forgive Me (x3) and BINGE (Sydney Opera House; HOME Manchester; Take Me Somewhere Festival, Glasgow; La Jolla Playhouse)
Purge (in 40+ countries internationally in 8 languages, including AUAWIRLEBEN, Santarcangelo Festival, Kakisenti KL, NUS Singapore, Malthouse Melbourne, Fusebox Austin; and published by Oberon Books)
As dramaturg/director:
The Dan Daw Show (dramaturg); EXXY (dramaturg and co-writer); Sex Education by Harry Clayton-Wright (director)
Awards, Recognition & Media Profile
- 2026 Churchill Fellow
- 2026-2027 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
- 2014 Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellowship
Teaching & Mentorship
Brian currently serves as Programme Director for the Phd Programme, and is Director of Study or on the Supervision Team for a number of PhD candidates.
Areas of expertise include: Solo Autobiographical Performance, Illness & Health, Narratives of Cancer, Queer Performance, Interactive Performance and Socially Engaged Practice.
Publications / Research Outputs (selected)
Theatre & Cancer (2019: Red Globe Press)
Purge (2016: Oberon)
BALL & Other Funny Stories About Cancer (2012 + 2015: Oberon)
Sex with Cancer (Forthcoming in 2027/2028: Jessica Kingsley Publishers)
Education / Academic Qualifications
2012: PhD (Queen Mary, University of London) | ‘Playing the Cancer Card: Illness, Performance and Spectatorship’
2010: Certificate in Learning & Teaching (Queen Mary, University of London) (Distinction)
2008: MA Performance (Queen Mary, University of London) (Distinction)
2003: BA in ‘Theatre & Social Identity’ (Independently Created Concentration – Highest Honours) and BA in Political Science (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)