Adrian Bryan-Brown | |
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Born | 1956 Oxford, England |
Residence | Manhattan, New York City, United States |
Citizenship | American |
Education |
Dragon School Marlborough College |
Alma mater |
Royal Holloway College UCLA Film School |
Occupation | Theatrical press agent |
Years active | 1979 – present |
Employer | Boneau/Bryan-Brown |
Known for | "one of the top press agents on Broadway" |
Spouse(s) | Joan Marcus (1991) |
Adrian Bryan-Brown (born 1956) is a leading press agent and theatrical promoter based in Manhattan, New York, United States. He has been especially involved with Broadway theatre and is considered to be "one of the top press agents on Broadway" by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.
Bryan-Brown was born in Oxford, England, and grew up in London and New York. He was educated in England at the Dragon School in Oxford, Marlborough College in Wiltshire, and Royal Holloway College (University of London). He received a BSc degree in zoology in 1978. He also attended the UCLA Film School in Los Angeles briefly.
Bryan-Brown worked with press agent Susan Bloch. The first Broadway show he worked on was a Roundabout Theatre Company transfer, A Taste of Honey, in 1979. When Bloch died suddenly, he went to work for Roundabout itself.
In 1983, he joined Solters/Roskin/Friedman, working with Joshua Ellis on many Broadway productions. He then worked with Chris Boneau and in 1991 established Boneau/Bryan-Brown, one of the leading theatrical press agencies in New York. He has represented more than 200 shows including Tony Award-winning plays like Art, Copenhagen and The History Boys. Other plays include Frost/Nixon, Skylight and Amy's View and musicals include The Who's Tommy,Sunset Boulevard, Titanic, Jersey Boys, Monty Python's Spamalot and Mamma Mia! Further productions include Rock 'n' Roll, The Seafarer, The Farnsworth Invention, Is He Dead?, Sunday in the Park with George, The 39 Steps, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, directed by Rufus Norris. He also represented the 2011 Broadway production of the rock musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark initially.