BIOGRAPHY:
BRIAN LEAHY DOYLE (Playwright/Director) received an MFA in Theatre 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); and Maybe Tomorrow (KNOW Theatre, Chain Theatre, Aery 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 (Ripley-Grier Studios); and The Weeping Woman, an opera about the relationship between Dora Maar and Picasso (MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA). Brian also directed a reading of Light from the Pleiades for English Theatre Düsseldorf. Maybe Tomorrow was 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 Dead End Kids, A Post-Covid Dystopian Love Story and Other Alternate Realities at The Tank in NYC, as well as And We Danced for the Gene Frankel Theatre One Act Festival in August 2025. And We Danced recently won first prize in the 2025 Donald J. McCann Memorial One-Act Playwriting Contest in March 2026.
EDUCATION / TRAINING:
MFA in Theatre, University of Utah