Biography

Brian Sheridan has been acting since the age of 14, when he appeared in his first high school stage production of Christopher Durang's "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all for You." During his early years of acting he appeared in nearly every show put on by his high school including Shakespeare's "The Tempest" (Prince Ferdinand), Moss Hart's "You Can't Take it With You" (Anthony P. Kirby Sr.), and Abe Burrows' "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (Book Voice, Chorus, TV Announcer). He was also a member of the theatre sports team for three years, taking lessons from Seattle's Unexpected Productions professional theatre sports team, and being on the winning team of the Western Washington High School Theatre Sports Invitational in 1995. Outside of school he got his first musical theatre exposure in the Northwest Savoyards' production of "Kiss Me Kate," (chorus) narrowly losing the romantic lead to an older actor solely because of his age.

After graduating he decided to attend Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington to study drama. In his freshman year he was honored to be one of only two first-year students chosen to attend a fight-choreography class given by senior Amanda Walker and gave an impressive performance by co-choreographing a five-minute fight between himself and scene partners Jesse Kiehl and Jason Ridle. His sophomore year he was honored to be a part of the cast of Jeff Resta's "The Diva Classification System" (Bucky) directed by Seattle director Christina Masten. The following year he again landed an important role by playing the only male in R.T. Robinson's "The Cover of Life" (Tommy) directed by New York director Barbara Marchant. He also got his first taste of acting for film in his three self-made student films playing the co-starring role in "The FAT MAN and little boy" trilogy as title role "little boy." His favorite role in college came his senior year when he played the bartender Freddy in Steve Martin's "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," which also served as his senior project and the crown jewel in his Bachelor of the Arts degree from the number-one drama program on the west coast.

After college, Brian turned his attention more to directing and filmmaking than acting until he was presented with the tremendous opportunity to play the co-starring role of Charles Price in Tiffany Sinclair's debut film "Praey." He also did the stunt coordinating and fight choreography for the film. Next, Brian was hired to play a supporting role as Everett, a down on his luck father in David Dabling's short film "Brenda's Tree," a tremendously moving film that should be released through Indieflix soon. While helping Tiffany prepare for her work as the director of photography in One-Shot Productions' upcoming "Take-Away Spirit," Brian had the opportunity to choreograph a short fight sequence which landed him the job of fight/stunt coordinator for that film, as well as playing the antagonist again, but in a much larger, fiercer capacity this time. Brian's then worked with the EXTREMELY talented Mike Conway in his upcoming sci-fi masterpiece entitled "Exile." It was an exciting and challenging role for Brian as he was fortunate enough to star as the lead role in the film, as well as getting his first chance to play a blind character.

On March 17th, 2008 (St. Patrick's Day), Brian fulfilled a lifelong dream and earned his first Black Belt - in Okinawan Shudokan Karate-do at The Walla Walla Karate Center under the wonderful tutelage of Shihan Dave Libbert.

Most recently Brian's voice talents scored him triple-billing in The Little Theatre of Walla Walla's production of The War of the Worlds -- a dramatic reading and reenactment of the historic radio play by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre. Based on his performance (most notably in the role of The Stranger) Brian was then asked to audition for the Little Theatre's next show, Leading Ladies in which he is playing the lead role of Leo Clark.