Brennan Pickman-Thoon

Brennan hails from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he grew up training with A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, Marin Theater Company, and more. At age 9, he joined the national touring company of Les Miserables, as the lovable urchin Gavroche. As a teenager, he acted with California Shakespeare Theater in their mainstage productions of Julius Caesar and The Winter's Tale. He graduated with honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he earned a BFA in Drama and trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Some favorite New York credits include The Mormon Bird Play (New York International Fringe Festival), The Lion in Winter, Aesop's Fables (Phoenix Theater Ensemble). He also wrote, produced, and directed a one-act comedy, God's Last Day, which won Best Short Play in the 2015 Unchained Theater Festival. Since returning to The Bay Area, Brennan has worked at many of the theaters that he grew up training with, both as an actor and a teaching artist. Recent Bay Area credits include A Christmas Carol (A.C.T.), Metamorphoses, The Good Book (u/s, Berkeley Rep), Mother of The Maid (Marin Theater Company), Home, Boys Go To Jupiter (Word For Word), Macbeth (u/s, California Shakespeare Theater), The Gentleman Caller (New Conservatory Theater Center), Timon of Athens, Phedre (Cutting Ball), Hamlet, Measure for Measure (Marin Shakespeare Company), Hecuba/Helen (Stanford Repertory Theatre), #bros (Faultline Theater). Brennan is a member of Actors' Equity and is represented by NYLO Talent Agency.