Degrees
MFA—Acting, Wayne State University, 2010
BA—Theatre Performance, Western Michigan University, 1999
Representative courses taught
CTAR 150: Introduction to Theatre
CTAR 158: Fundamentals of Acting
Biography
Brian Sage is a recent graduate of Wayne State University where
he earned his MFA in Acting
while performing as a member of the Hilberry Repertory Theatre
Company. Brian also had the
honor of studying with the Moscow Art Theatre School as a part
of Wayne State’s study abroad
program.
Brian’s sixty-plus professional acting credits run the
gamut from the classics to contemporary
musical theatre. Some favorite roles include Bottom in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Harry
Brock in Born Yesterday, Joe Keller in All My Sons, Dr. Dorn
in The Seagull, Claudius in
Hamlet, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum, and Nicely Nicely
Johnson in Guys and Dolls. He’s worked for a variety of
companies throughout Michigan and
Illinois including The Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire (Chicago,
IL), First Folio Shakespeare
(Chicago, IL), Theatre Building Chicago (Chicago, IL), and Tibbits
Opera House (Coldwater,
MI). Most recently he’s spent the past two seasons working
as an actor with the Tipping Point
Theatre in Northville, MI.
Brian served as the Producing Artistic Director of the Whole
Art Theatre in Kalamazoo, MI for
three seasons and has directed a number of professional productions
including Closer, South
Pacific, Falsettos, Bat Boy: The Musical, and Oliver to name
a few. He was invited back to
Western Michigan University in 2002 to direct a production of
David Ives All in the Timing for
the University Theatre.
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