Brendan McCall is a movement artist, writer, educator, and filmmaker. Recent performances include Keith Thompson’s Love Alone Anthology Project (world premiere), inspired by the writings of AIDS activist Paul Monette, at La MaMa (New York); Mary Overlie’s Brain to Brain (world premiere) at the Danspace Project (New York); and Henrik Ibsen’s “lost” prose play Svanhild, directed by Lars Øyno, and winner of the Ibsen Award (multiple venues in Norway, Russia, and Japan). He has danced, acted, choreographed, and directed internationally for over 35 years in over 40 countries on 5 continents, and for 12 years lived abroad in Norway, Turkey, and Australia.
Since 1994, he’s taught at numerous institutions, including the Yale School of Drama, the New School for Drama, the Actors Studio Drama School, New York University, Pace University, the University of Dance & Ballettakademien (both in Sweden), Bilkent University (Turkey), and The International Theater Academy Norway, where he also served as Dean from 2008-10. He is a co-founder of the Allan Wayne Work Alliance as well as Interzone Films, is a staff writer for thINKingDANCE and Culturebot, on the faculty at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and publishes award-winning fiction under a pseudonym. BFA with Honors in Acting, New York University. MFA in Dance, Bennington College. MPhil in Ibsen Studies (ABT), University of Oslo.