Brian Dooley

Brian Dooley was born in Sherbrooke Quebec. He graduated from Bishop's University with a B.A Honours in 1977, and trained in theatre at the National Theatre School of Canada. For over thirty years he has worked in diverse roles across the country and abroad. For L'UniThéâtre in April 2016, he acted in both French and English as an elderly plumber who pursues the recently widowed love of his life in The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux by Gratien Gélinas. Later in the same month, he convincingly played an irredeemably drunken father in Theatre Network's production of Gordon by Morris Panych. Dooley succeeded Daniel Cournoyer as Artistic Director of L'UniThéâtre in 2012. He is also the director of play development at the Citadel Theatre as well as an employee in film as a producer and director with Great North Productions and Alliance Atlantis. Dooley also teaches at the National Theatre School of Canada.