Broadway BUZZ

Brandon J. Dirden starred on Broadway as Booster in the Tony Award-winning revival of August Wilson's Jitney and as Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Tony Award-winning production of All the Way, with Bryan Cranston. Additional Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, Enron, and Prelude to a Kiss. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in The Piano Lesson, for which he won Obie, Theatre World, and AUDELCO awards; The First Breeze of Summer and Day of Absence at Signature Theatre; Detroit ’67 at the Public Theater and Classical Theatre of Harlem; Peter and the Starcatcher at New York Theatre Workshop and as ‘Brutus’ in TFANA’s production of Julius Caesar. On screen he has appeared in The Good Wife, Evil, The Big C, Public Morals, Manifest, The Get Down, The Accidental Wolf, Blue Bloods, The Quad, For Life, the FX miniseries Mrs. America and on four seasons of The Americans as ‘Agent Dennis Aderholt.’ He has directed numerous plays by Dominique Morriseau and August Wilson.  Brandon is a frequent volunteer at the 52^nd Street Project, on the faculty of the NYU Grad Acting program and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and Fair Wage on Stage.