Brian Sheridan(V)
- Actor
- Stunts
- Casting Director
Brian Sheridan was born in Detroit, Michigan on April 6, 1978. His
first acting work came in high school at Cascade High in Everett,
Washington, where he also began his stunt and fight work with "The
Fantasticks." He continued acting and got his first professional stage
combat training during his freshman year of college while attending
Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Utilizing both these skills
and the martial-arts he'd trained in, he choreographed several fights
for the school's student film-festival, earning the award for Best
Fight Choreography in 1999 (The Fat Man and little boy II: Mad Max's
Revenge) and was nominated for the same award the following year (The
Fat Man and little boy III: Revelations). After college Brian took some
time away from the stage and screen, spending a year in Japan where he
studied martial arts before returning to Walla Walla where he partner
up with Tiffany Sinclair to start their film company carSINogenic candy
productions. They worked together on an unfinished project entitled A
Day in the Life before creating Praey - their breakthrough feature. His
performance in Praey brought him to the attention of several companies,
notably One-Shot Productions and Midnight Sun Entertainment, which
earned him roles in their films Take-Away Sprit and Exile,
respectively. Since Exile he has returned to the stage and has acted in
several shows with the Little Theatre of Walla Walla, as well as
continuing fight-choreography for the Little Theatre and Walla Walla
University. In 2009 he directed his first play, for the One-Act Play
Festival at the Little Theatre of Walla Walla. Brian has trained in
several martial-arts over the course of his life, starting with
Shito-Ryu Karate as a child, while in college he practiced Hung-Gar
Kung-Fu. After graduation he studied Tokai Federation Aikido while
living in Japan, then practiced Shudokan Karate after returning to the
US. He holds a second-degree black-belt in Shudokan Karate, and is
currently boxing and practicing Shindo-Jinen Ryu Karate. He is
practiced in broadsword and quarterstaff combat, western-style fencing
(both single blade and rapier-and-dagger), and also trained in the use
of Katana, Bo Staff, Kaibo (oar), Sai, and Nunchaku. When not acting he
maintains his love of the arts by turning to writing, and has produced
several scripts for the online sketch-comedy show Three Drunk Trolls
TV, while also writing novels and comics.
