Brendan Irving

After graduating Music Theatre at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in 2007, Brendan’s career began when he received the Bound For Broadway Scholarship from the Talent Development Project & American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. This opportunity took him to the US to perform as a soloist in Sheldon Harnick’s Broadway Up Close and Personal at the John F. Kennedy Centre in Washington DC and the Rick Jensen directed cabaret Bound for Broadway at Don’t Tell Mama in New York in 2009. Brendan has since made a strong name for himself back home, understudying Zack Mayo in Gordon Frost Organisation’s 2012 production of An Officer and A Gentleman and playing Rocky for more than 300 shows in the 2014, 2015 and 2018 Australian tours of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. 2017 saw Brendan working with Gordon Frost Organisation once again for their hit season of The Bodyguard as The Stalker. An accomplished aerial acrobat specialising in silks, trapeze and duo, Brendan was a resident artist in Sydney’s Slide Lounge circus theatre show El Circo from 2010-2020. He combined his musical theatre and circus talents playing Garrison Fjord in the critically acclaimed production of The Lyin Queen at the Sydney Opera House in 2019, and again for a return season in 2021. Brendan toured Australia throughout 2022 originating the role of Taurus in Oracle as one half of an aerial hoop duo, before joining Opera Australia earlier in 2023 as The Acrobat in Adrianna Lecouvreur. Brendan is the proud Director of The Movement Academy Australia; a state of the art studio in Sydney founded in 2015 for professional performing artists and anyone with a passion for enhanced movement practicing in acrobatics, circus and calisthenics.

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