How to Build a Forest
Brandon appeared in the original New York production of Obie award winning PearlDamour's 8 hour piece How to Build a Forest. The production ran at The Kitchen theatre. How to Build a Forest is a hybrid project: part visual art installation, part theater performance that unfolds over an extended interval. Beginning on an empty stage, the forest comes together in ways that range from surprisingly intimate to large-scale and spectacular.
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See all 8 hours of How to Build a Forest in 6 minutes!
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A half hour documetnary on How to Build a Forest.
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The Ride/ In Development
Brandon performed at the Vineyard Playhouse and Luna Stage creating the role of MamaBaba in readings of The Ride by Carol Lynn Maillard (founding member of the Grammy award winning Sweet Honey in the Rock). The Ride is a companion piece to In Development, a work he co-created with acclaimed actress Suzzanne Douglas (How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Parent 'Hood) using text by poet Yorri J. Berry.
MV Times called In Development "a very powerful, emotional performance."
MV Times called In Development "a very powerful, emotional performance."
"In Development" creative team.
Yorri J. Berry, Mama Yaa, Brandon Monokian, Suzzanne Douglas,
Louise Robinson &
Carol Lynn Maillard
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"The Ride" at The Vineyard Playhouse.
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Other
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Other acting credits include PastTENSE (dir. Robert Woodruff), Love is in The Air (dir. Jeremy Bloom, The Cell) and Shlemiel the First (dir. David Gordon, Skirball Center, Alexander Kasser Theater) as well as several shows with the Ocean City Theatre Company including Peter Pan, How I Became a Pirate, Cat and the Hat, and the world premiere of the musical Überboy: The Story of a Hero. In 2014, Brandon toured for the now defunct Surflight Theater in their productions of School House Rock (playing Tom, the teacher who didn't know what a noun was) and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (playing Alexander, an emotional child who desperately wants to move to Australia).
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Joan Rivers with the cast of Shlemiel the First
Playing the Fish in Cat & The Hat
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