Brian Balcom, Artistic Producer
Brian Balcom is a disabled, Asian-American Director who specializes in contemporary, muscular, relationship-driven plays. He enjoys working with playwrights and thinks that entertainment is underrated. He has directed 12 world premieres, 6 of which were personally commissioned, and has helped develop work at The Playwrights Center, Victory Gardens Theater, NNPN, Chicago Dramatists, and La Jolla Rep. He most recently served as Access Project Coordinator at Victory Gardens where he worked to enhance access services for patrons and develop the next generation of disabled stories and artists. Brian has sat on artistic advisory committees for Park Square Theater, Writers Theatre, National New Play Network, and American Theater Magazine and served as panel speaker on disability and theater for TCG, American Theater Magazine, Shakespeare Theater Association, The Voice and Speech Trainers Association, 3Arts, The Lark, and Victory Gardens Theater. BFA, Carnegie-Mellon. MFA, DePaul.