Brandon Dirden

Brandon J. Dirden has appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning productions of Take Me Out; Skeleton Crew for which he received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards nominations; as ‘Martin Luther King, Jr.’ opposite Bryan Cranston in the Tony Award-winning production of All the Way; and as ‘Booster’ in the Tony Award-winning revival of August Wilson's Jitney. Other Broadway credits include Clybourne Park, Enron, and Prelude to a Kiss. Off-Broadway, he appeared as ‘Boy Willie’ in The Piano Lesson, for which he won OBIE, Theatre World, and AUDELCO Awards, The First Breeze of Summer and Day of Absence all at Signature Theatre; the world premiere of Detroit ’67 at the Public and Classical Theatre of Harlem; Peter and the Starcatcher at New York Theatre Workshop; and as ‘Brutus’ in TFANA’s production of Julius Caesar. On screen he has appeared in “The Good Wife,” “For Life,” “Evil,” “The Big C,” “Public Morals,” “Manifest,” “The Get Down,” “The Accidental Wolf,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Quad,” the miniseries “Mrs. America” and four seasons of “The Americans” as ‘Agent Dennis Aderholt’. He will soon be seen in Katori Hall’s series, “P-Valley.” Dirden has directed numerous plays including the revival of Steve Carter’s Eden at Yale Rep and most recently Arthur Miller’s The Price at Two River Theater.  He is an Associate Arts Professor at Tisch Grad Acting at NYU, a volunteer at the 52nd Street Project, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. B.A. in Mathematics from Morehouse College. M.F.A. in Acting from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.