BIOGRAPHY:
BRIAN LEAHY DOYLE received an MFA in Theatre in Directing from the University of Utah. Notable playwriting credits: And We Danced (KNOW Theatre); Telepathy, Starry Starry Night, Dining for One, Want to Hold Your Hand, Still Life, and Franny Ornstein, Secret Agent Sous Chef (Secret Theatre); Maybe Tomorrow (KNOW Theatre, Chain Theatre, Aery Theatre); and the one-act version of Dead End Kids (KNOW Theatre, Chain Theatre). As a lyricist/librettist, he has collaborated with Michael Dilthey on the song “Each and Every Day in December,” featured in New Sounds for the Season and sung by Broadway soprano Lauren Zakrin; Greetings from Fitzwalkerstan, produced at the Broom Street Theatre in Madison, Wisconsin; My Way of Life, a musical adaptation of Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession, workshopped at Ripley-Grier Studios in New York; and The Weeping Woman, an opera about the relationship between Dora Maar and Picasso, which premiered at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. Brian also directed two Zoom readings of Light from the Pleiades for English Theatre Düsseldorf, and The Architecture of Desire was published in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021. Maybe Tomorrow was also recently produced in Eclectic Full Contact Theatre’s Patchwork Festival in Chicago and at the Frances Marion Brown Theatre by Oswego Players in Oswego, New York. Brian recently directed a staged reading of And We Danced for the Irvington Incubator and a staged reading of Dead End Kids, A Post-Covid Dystopian Love St
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
MFA in Theatre with Emphasis in Directing, University of Utah