Barret O'Brien


AEA Member

Barret O'Brien

CJ and Rook in The Unfortunates

In one season at OSF: As understudy, performed General Prince in Romeo and Juliet and Agamemnon in Troilus and Cressida

Other theatres: Off-Broadway: Theo in Crane Story (Playwrights Realm). New York: Donald in Five Genocides (Clubbed Thumb); Pantalone in Maybe Even Tammy (The Flea); Buford in Born of Conviction (Irondale Ensemble); Edmund in Conspirators (HERE); Pentheus in The Bacchae (NY Fringe Festival). Regional: Banquo and Macduff in Macbeth 1969 (Long Wharf Theatre); Ensemble in Passion Play (Yale Repertory Theatre); Ludie in The Trip to Bountiful (National tour); Jack in Leading Ladies (National tour); Astrov in Uncle Vanya, Thomas in Vulgar Soul, Harold in Master Harold…and the Boys (Southern Repertory Theatre). International: Leo in Big Al (Man in the Moon Theater, London); Bunky in Solitaire (American Center, Paris), Astrov in Uncle Vanya (National Theater, Budapest). 

Film/TV: Redwood Highway (to be released summer 2013), Runaway Jury, Dawson’s Creek, Malpractice, Netherworld, The Intervention. 

Other: Founding director of American Dog Theater Company (New Orleans). 

Awards: Oliver Thorndike Acting Award, Yale School of Drama. 

Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. 

www.barretobrien.com