biography

Brent has worked extensively with major state theatre companies and long-running national musical theatre tours, most recently finishing a four year run as King George in the Tony®, Grammy®, Olivier and Pulitzer Prize winning masterwork, Hamilton- rehearsing the international company at 42nd St Studios on Broadway, and touring Australia, New Zealand, the Phillipines, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore.

You can soon see Brent starring in ‘Ghosts Australia’, releasing this year for Paramount+, Channel 10, and BBC Studios.

Training:

WAAPA (Acting);

BA Performing Arts (Curtin University);

E’colé Philippe Gaulier (Paris) with mentor, Phillippe Gaulier.

Theatre includes:

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Sydney Theatre Company),

Chimerica (Sydney Theatre Company),

An Ideal Husband;

Vivid White;

The Speechmaker (Melbourne Theatre Company),

Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play (Belvoir Street Theatre),

simultaneously Seymour/Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors (Luckiest Productions & Tinderbox Productions),

Once – Seoul tour (Once UK),

Once (GFO/Melbourne Theatre Company),

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Gordon Frost Organisation),

Jerry’s Girls (The Production Company),

Pirates of Penzance (The Production Company),

Leo Bloom in The Producers (The Production Company),

Dreamsong (MICF),

A Number (Perth Theatre Company),

Twelfth Night (Bell Shakespeare Company),

Julius Caesar (Cry Havoc),

Rock of Ages (Rock of Ages Australia),

The Distance From Here (Griffin Theatre),

as Composer for Risky Lunar Love (504 Productions) and the workshop of The Happy Ending (Cry Havoc).

Television includes:

Ghosts Australia (Paramount+/Channel 10/ BBC Studios),

Donnatelegrams (ABC),

Laid (ABC),

It’s a Date (ABC).

Film includes:

Your Call is Important to Us (Powerplay Productions)

Awards includes:

Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical (School of Rock);

Green Room Award for Best Male Actor in a Musical (School of Rock);

Sydney Theatre Award Winner: Judith Johnson Award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Musical ‘Little Shop of Horrors’;

Green Room Award Winner: Male Artist Leading Role ‘Rock of Ages’;

2009 National Theatresports Champion;

2010 Cranston Cup Theatresports Champion;

2005 Actors Equity Guild Award for Best Newcomer.

Brent is currently and always working on his own musicals, when not enjoying walking the dog and taking in the coastal salt air.