Gilbert Glenn Brown

<p>Gilbert Glenn Brown is a native New Yorker through and through, though his parents are originally form Jamaica, West Indies.&nbsp;&nbsp; Spending time in the different boroughs of New York, Gilbert quickly became well-versed in the landscape of the city but found his true NYC time in the Bronx after a dare. Taking up the challenge to audition for the Mind-Builders Creative Arts Centers&rsquo; Positive Youth Troupe and being accepted set him on the path he continues today. The local community arts center dedicated to the empowerment of youth through the arts gave him the confidence and skills necessary to set his sights on a professional acting career and study at New York University&rsquo;s renowned Tisch School of the Arts, where he received a BFA.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>A renaissance man of sorts, Gilbert actor, writer, singer and director has garnered numerous awards and acclamations including: 3 NAACP Theatre Award nominations, COLSAC Best Lead Performance Award, along with a Drama Critic and a LA Weekly Award and Ovation Nomination; Gilbert has vast stage credit which include: 2012 NY Musical Theatre Festival&rsquo;s RIO,&nbsp; Leslie Lee and Chalres Strouse&rsquo;s, MARTIN: A NEW AMERICAN MUSICAL, Sade Lythcott&rsquo;s A TIME TO LOVE,&nbsp; Ifa Bayeza&rsquo;s CHARESLTON OLIO along side, Phylicia Rashad,&nbsp; Alfre Woodard, Hattie Winston, Kene Holiday and Richard Lawson, THE MOUNTAINTOP written by Katori Hall, directed by Chey Yew opposite Anika Noni Rose at the Inge Theater Festival, Lydia Diamond's HARRIET JACOBS at Kansas City Rep &amp; Paula Vogel&rsquo;s CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS at the Huntington Theatre, both directed by Jessica Thebus, TOPDOG/UNDERDOG&nbsp; at the Mark Taper Forum directed by&nbsp; George C. Wolfe, Esther Armah&rsquo;s FORGIVE ME at the Mid-Town International Theatre Festival directed by Trazana Beverly, The National Black Theatre where he appeared in three productions, ENDANGERED SPECIES, HOME GROWN and the musical TESTIFY; Playwrights Horizons/42nd Street Collective in two productions MAKING OF THE MAN and DISSENSION WITHIN AN EGO; The Apollo Theatre in NO LAUGHING MATTER and TRIP THIS: A DANGEROUS VOYAGE; Musical Theatre Works THE COMMON THREAD; The Vineyard Theatre and The Classic Stage Co. in ON THE EDGE. His L.A. theatre credits include: MISS EVERS&rsquo; BOYS at The Complex; DRIVING WHILE BLACK IN BEVERLY HILLS at the Matrix Theatre, Stage 52&rsquo;s productions of JEFFREY&rsquo;S PLAN the musical HAS ANY ONE SEEN MY RAINBOW?; the Complex in FOR BLACK BOYS WHO CONSIDERED HOMICIDE WHEN THE STREETS WERE TOO MUCH. Additionally, he has toured New York City and California in a one-man musical based on the life of Malcolm X, in which he is a contributing writer.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>His film credits include:&nbsp; DEATH AND THE RED DRESS, A LONG NIGHT, DREAMGIRLS, the Showtime original RAIN, NIGHTFALLS ON MANHATTAN, JUICE, THE EAVESDROPPER, RAISING THE HEIGHTS, A LONG NIGHT, CONCRETE RIVER, THE GOOD FIGHT, the award-winning BOBBY G. CAN&rsquo;T SWIM, and WARM TIDE, DRAMA, Palm Springs Film Festival award-winner CHILDREN OF THE STRUGGLE, THE COURT and ROMEO &amp; JULIET REVISITED.&nbsp; Additionally, he has several commercial, voice-over and television credits&nbsp; under his belt. His TV credits include MERCY, E.R., SHARK, THE O.C., CSI MIAMI, COLD CASE, THE SHIELD, THE MEN&rsquo;S ROOM, ROSWELL, THE PARKERS, and DAYS OF OUR LIVES,</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>While pursuing his acting career, Gilbert has always managed to stay connected to the education and empowerment of young people through the arts. In Los Angeles he volunteered his time with afterschool programs in southern Los Angeles and the Girl Blue Project. He also volunteered with and became a teaching artist with The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company in which he served as director, acting instructor and technical advisor.&nbsp; He continues to give back to the same group that first gave him his start, The Positive Youth Troupe as a way of repaying what he received as a young, hopeful artist.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>"Acting has always been more to me than &lsquo;just&rsquo; acting.&nbsp; Acting is a viable and highly visible way to affect change, to inspire, to educate and to open up other worlds to the audience.&nbsp; It has always been these things for me. If acting could captivate the life of an energetic, creative and "wild" fifteen year old kid from NYC and show him the value of hard work, commitment and focus?&nbsp; Wow&hellip;that's an amazing accomplishment in itself.&nbsp; The ability to touch the lives of others through what I do as I grow and develop as an actor/human-being is truly a blessing, not to mention a great and humbling thing.&nbsp; To be honest, I see myself being very successful and doing this for a very, very long time, it&rsquo;s my life source."</p>

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