Brian Osborne is a collaborative physical theater artist who builds athletic, character-driven theater based on real people. He is the Artistic Director of The Elastic Theater for which he has written and performed THE WORD (’07 Live Arts, Suli Holum, dir.), a solo tragic-comedy based on the life of child-preacher turned B-movie actor Marjoe Gortner, BITCH ON WHEELS (Lee Etzold, Co-Director, ‘06 Philly Fringe), an aerial dance-comedy about the death of 1970’s Roller Derby, DELICIOUS VAUDEVILLE, a musical circus-fantasy produced Off-Broadway by David Binder and SONS OF KATHERINE, a comic duet about dementia. Other recent collaborations include co-director of Kate Watson Wallace’s STORE (’09 Live Arts), Subcircle’s new dance theater work, TRUE/FALSE, WIND-UP, with Dan Rothenberg, David Brick and Mimi Lien at Princeton’s Atelier, Emmanuelle Delpech-Ramey’s OEDIPUS AT FDR, Thaddeus Phillips/Lucidity Suitcase’s WHALE OPTICS and THE LINCOLN PROJECT with Pig Iron Theater Co. Off-Broadway he was seen in the aerial smash hit DE LA GUARDA. Film and Television credits include the forthcoming feature comedy Sophomore with Patrick Warburton, Law & Order: SVU, Drivers Wanted, Threadbare, Sure Shot, and an original film adaptation of Harold Pinter's Applicant. He has a Bachelor’s in Theater from Marquette University, has trained with Alfred Molina, Ada Brown Mather (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), at Second City, and studied playwriting with Alvin Eng.

Up next he will direct "Or Maybe My Mother was an American Chameleon?" by
Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (KOSOKO PERFORMANCE GROUP) at the 2010 Live Arts Festival