brian grew up on martha's vineyard, where he was taught his passion for the creative arts. after studying theatre at boston univeristy's college of fine art, brian moved to chicago and formed shack productions, with whom he produced and wrote a nationally distributed feature film and award winning shorts and documentaries. while in the windy city he also managed a bar and gallery, and was the financial manager for the chicago loop alliance with whom he helped produce the first looptopia, chicago's all-night arts festival. he moved back to martha's vineyard in 2006 and became the business manager for the vineyard playhouse and regained his passion for writing plays.
now brian is the managing director of the martha's vineyard film festival, and is the co-foundeder of artfarm which he founded with his wife and long time collaborating partner brooke hardman.