Brendan Gall

Brendan Gall (born September 2, 1978) is a Canadian writer, actor and producer living in Toronto, Ontario. Early life and education Gall graduated from the George Brown Theatre School. Career Gall has written and/or produced for the television series Blindspot, Open Heart, and The L.A. Complex, the CBC Radio drama series Afghanada, the feature films The Lovebirds, The Go-Getters, and Dakota, and...

Brendan Gall (born September 2, 1978) is a Canadian writer, actor and producer living in Toronto, Ontario. Early life and education Gall graduated from the George Brown Theatre School. Career Gall has written and/or produced for the television series Blindspot, Open Heart, and The L.A. Complex, the CBC Radio drama series Afghanada, the feature films The Lovebirds, The Go-Getters, and Dakota, and stage plays such as Panhandled, A Quiet Place, Alias Godot and Wide Awake Hearts. As an actor, he has had lead or recurring roles on the series Remedy, Good God, Overruled!, and Men With Brooms, and guest appearances on Covert Affairs, The L.A. Complex, Against The Wall, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, and Stargate: Atlantis. He has also appeared in the films Remember, The Captive, Stag, Let's Rap and Dakota, and in numerous theatrical works, including the world premiere (and subsequent remounts) of Hannah Moscovitch's East of Berlin and the 2014 Toronto production of Duncan Macmillan's Lungs which garnered him a 2014 Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for Best Actor. A playwright in residence at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre from 2007 to 2017 and artistic director of his own theatre companies Single Threat and The Room, he has been nominated for four Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding New Play: twice in 2008 for Alias Godot and A Quiet Place, again in 2009 for The Gladstone Variations, and finally in 2011 for Wide Awake Hearts. Wide Awake Hearts and A Quiet Place were published by Coach House Books in 2010 under the title Minor Complications: Two Plays. The title was a shortlisted nominee in the English-language drama category of the 2011 Governor General's Awards. Gall has also been nominated twice for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. Bibliography Screenplays 2020: The Lovebirds 2017: The Go-Getters (with Aaron Abrams) 2007: Dakota Teleplays 2017: Blindspot (7 episodes) 2015: Open Heart (2 episodes) 2012: The L.A. Complex (6 episodes) Stage Plays 2010: Wide Awake Hearts 2010: Red Machine: Under The Knife (collective creation) 2010: 300 Tapes (collective creation) 2009: Red Machine: Part One (contributing writer: "First & Last") 2008: Alias Godot 2008 The Sound Plays (contributing writer: "A Book On Tape") 2007: The Gladstone Variations (contributing writer: "The Card Trick", with Mike McPhaden, Rick Roberts, Julie Tepperman) 2007: I Keep Dropping Sh*t (collective creation) 2006: Don't Wake Me (collective creation) 2006: Autoshow (contributing writer: "Hawk Limited") 2005: A Quiet Place 2005: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (collective creation) 2004: Panhandled 2003: The Awesome Club Presents "It's Raining Fun!" (contributed sketches) Collections 2010: Minor Complications: Two Plays, Coach House Books; ISBN 978-1552452370 Awards and nominations 2015: Lungs - Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination, Best Actor 2014: Lungs - My Theatre Award nomination, Best Actor 2014: K.M. Hunter Artist Award nomination, Theatre 2011: Minor Complications: Two Plays - Governor General's Literary Award for Drama nomination, English-Language Category 2011: Wide Awake Hearts - Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination, Best New Play 2011: Men With Brooms - Canadian Comedy Awards nomination, Best Ensemble 2010: K.M. Hunter Artist Award nomination, Theatre 2009: Alias Godot - Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination, Best New Play 2009: East of Berlin - Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award nomination, Best Actor 2008: A Quiet Place - Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination, Best New Play 2008: The Gladstone Variations - Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination, Best New Play 2003: A Quiet Place - Herman Voaden National Playwriting Award, Honourable Mention References External links Brendan Gall at IMDb Brendan Gall at the Playwrights Guild of Canada