About Bri
Brianna is from a small town in North New Jersey just outside of NYC. Growing up, she found excitement and comfort in watching blooper/gag reels of her favorite TV shows and movies, such as The Nanny, Will & Grace, etc. With these reels as inspiration, Brianna participated in her first musical at the age of eight and has been formally training as an actor both in the classroom and on the stage/set for 10+ years.
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Brianna (Left) in The Music Man, Belleville High School (2006).
Her primary training is in musical theatre, having attended yearly summer camps at The New Jersey School of Dramatic Arts, Gas Lamp Academy of Performing Arts, and performing in her high school and university's annual musicals.
Brianna (Right) as the Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, Belleville High School (2016).
Brianna (Right) as Celeste #1 in Sunday in the Park with George, Kean University (2019).
Photo by: Rich Kowalski.
Brianna graduated summa cum laude in May of 2020 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Performance and a minor in Communications from Kean University (Union, NJ). She concluded her time at Kean as president of their chapter of Alpha Psi Omega, the National Theatre Honor Society. The Kean Theatre Conservatory honored Brianna with the Director’s Award for maintaining a high level of rehearsal and performance technique and the Lenore Vaughn Eames Award for three+ years of distinguished service to the theatre.
Brianna as Marela in Anna in the Tropics, Kean University (2020). Photo by: Rich Kowalski.
While at university, she gained further performance training in musicals, straight plays, television production, commercial work and was awarded a talent-based, full scholarship to The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. There she studied acting for the camera and continued to hone these skills through "cinematic sketch comedies,” produced by Four’s A Crowd Productions, of which she was a member from 2019-2020.
Brianna (Left) during the Four's a Crowd Season 2, Ep. 1 read through. Photo by: Joe Baez.
Today, Brianna works with a number of regional theatre companies in NJ and NYC as an actor, educator, director, and administrative professional. She has spent a great amount of time contributing to Theatre for Young Audiences from conducting workshops on Shakespearean language to performing in productions that bring young people's literature to life. As Brianna continues her journey in the industry, she hopes to continue making the little girl in the first picture proud.
Brianna (Center) as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare Live! Educational Touring Company at Piscataway High
School, (2022).