Brian Avers

A wide-ranging character actor, writer and director, Brian's best known for Broadway and TV performances including stage premieres of Florian Zeller's The Father, Rock N Roll by Tom Stoppard (opposite Brian Cox, Rufus Sewell & Alice Eve), Poor Behavior by Theresa Rebeck, Completeness by Itamar Moses, and as Edgar in King Lear at the Public Theater, opposite Kevin Kline and Logan Marshall-Green, along with memorable appearances on popular TV series including NCIS (2003) & NCIS: Los Angeles (2009) as Special Agent Mike Renko, the Castle (2009) pilot for ABC, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) & more. Film appearances include Julie & Julia (2009) and Gigantic (2008) (opposite Paul Dano & Zooey Deschanel). In 2013, Brian directed improvisational indie comedy The Weekend (2013), which was shot in only 3 days, with a gifted ensemble of New York actors and writers including Heather Lind, Amber Gray, Bhavesh Patel, Stacey Yen, Julie Sharbutt and Carson Elrod. From 2012-2016, Brian produced and co-hosted The Buckeye Brothers, a popular sports podcast; his voice has often been featured in national commercials, video games (RockStar), and audiobooks in a variety of genres for Audible.

Brian was born in Columbus, Ohio, on September 14, 1978, first appearing on stage as an infant, in The Royal Family by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, in a production at Players Theater. He later attended Thomas Worthington High School, notably performing the title role in Tartuffe at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1996. Brian attended Marymount Manhattan College before receiving an MFA from NYU in 2006, where he was the only actor to receive the A.V. Global Fellowship in the Arts. Brian is married to actress Amy Lynn Stewart, with one son, Bodhi.