Brent Askari
Brent has acted in numerous MHTC productions including Appropriate, Mr. Burns, The Pillowman, Bengal Tiger At The Baghdad Zoo, November, Becky Shaw, Drunks, Cloud 9, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The History Boys, Circle Mirror Transformation, A View From The Bridge, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, and Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You. He directed his original play Cloudhoppers and the East Coast premiere of Justin Tanner’s Voice Lessons at Mad Horse. Brent has performed in numerous audio dramas and narrated the nationally syndicated television program Animal Science, which was nominated for a national Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program.
As a writer, Brent had the world premiere of his play Digby’s Home at Mad Horse. He is the winner the 2019 National New Play Network Smith Prize For Political Drama for his play The Refugees. Other of Brent’s plays include American Underground (Runner-up winner Bonnie and Terry Burman New Play Award, world premiere at Barrington Stage Company 2019), Hard Cell (PlayPenn Conference 2017, world premiere at Geva Theatre Center in 2019), White Party (semi-finalist for O’Neill Conference, Finalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Ashland New Play Festival); Cocktails and Travails (Winner of Neil Simon Festival’s National New Play Contest with world premiere at The Theater Project); Bending Reeds (Semi-Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Blank Stage Living Room Series). In addition, he has had plays produced at or developed by Ensemble Studio Theatre LA, Vital Theatre, Melrose Theatre, The 78th Street Theatre, The Boston Theatre Marathon, The Drilling Company, and the Penobscot Theatre Company.
Brent was part of HBO’s New Writers Project and has written screenplays for Paramount Pictures, Marvel Films, MTV, and Reveille Entertainment.
He is a National New Play Network affiliate artist.