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Brendan Gall

Brendan Gall (born September 2, 1978) is a Canadian writer, actor and producer living in Toronto, Ontario.

Brendan Gall

(1978-09-02) September 2, 1978
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

film and television writer, producer, actor, playwright

2000s-present

Blindspot, The L.A. Complex, The Go-Getters, Dakota, Wide Awake Hearts, Alias Godot, A Quiet Place

Early life and education[edit]

Gall graduated from the George Brown Theatre School.

Career[edit]

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,[1] Alias Godot[2] and Wide Awake Hearts.[3]


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[4] 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.[5][6]


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.

2020:

The Lovebirds

2017: (with Aaron Abrams)

The Go-Getters

2007: Dakota

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

at IMDb

Brendan Gall

Brendan Gall at the Playwrights Guild of Canada