PIERCE PETER BRANDT

Bio

Pierce Peter Brandt has been a thriving performing artist for most of his life, performing as an actor and singer in Broadway productions and professional regional theaters, in concert halls and nightclubs, on cruise ships, as well as on TV, in film, and in commercials. From chorus boy to leading man, innovative smaller theaters to major commercial venues and opera houses, Pierce has been there. Pierce is a recipient of two DramaLogue (Backstage West) Awards and a Goodman San Francisco Critics' Award, as well as numerous accolades from critics and audiences alike. He has performed leading roles in major Broadway productions on some of the most celebrated metropolitan stages throughout the United States and Canada, from New York to California, and Toronto to Vancouver, and has also enjoyed success working in major regional theater productions with some of the country's finest theater companies.

Pierce has performed leading and featured roles throughout the US and Canada in the Broadway production of Les Miserables, the original New York cast of Cameron Mackintosh's Martin Guerre (from the creators of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon), and in the National Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar starring Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson from the original motion picture. Pierce's other prominent engagements include principal and/or featured roles at the San Francisco Peninsula's TheatreWorks (Side Show, Oliver!), Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater (Martin Guerre), Washington DC's Arena Stage (Candide), the San Francisco Bay Area's Festival Opera (The Most Happy Fella), San Francisco's Alcazar Theater (Jerry Herman’s Tune the Grand Up, supervised by Mr. Herman himself), New York's City Center (Owl Creek), San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon (Fanny, Redhead, Jerome Kern Salon), American Musical Theatre of San Jose (The Most Happy Fella, Follies, Pippin, The Three Musketeers, and others), Hollywood Universal Amphitheater (Jesus Christ Superstar), Oakland's Woodminster Theater (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Sayonara), Pennsylvania's Allenberry Playhouse (Joseph ... Dreamcoat), Maryland's Olney Theater (The Fifth Season), and San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater (The Difficulty of Crossing A Field).

As a budding concert soloist, Pierce has most recently performed with San Jose's Symphony Silicon Valley in Hello Dolly in Concert (starring Leslie Uggams) and Your Hit Parade; and with the California Pops Orchestra in Christmas Fantasy, Magical Broadway Moments, Holiday with the Pops, The Big Broadcast of 2011, and God Bless America!. In 2012, Pierce will be performing his solo concert/cabaret shows in San Francisco venues and also on major cruise ships throughout the world.

Along the way in his prolific performing arts career, Pierce has had the privilege to work and/or perform with some of the finest professionals in the musical theater, including internationally acclaimed theatrical impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh; composer Claude-Michel Schonberg, lyricist Alain Boublil, composer Jerry Herman; film and Broadway musical supervisor David Caddick; prominent Broadway directors John Caird and Jason Moore; Broadway music directors Kevin Stites, Dale Rieling, Larry Goldberg, and Andrew Bryan; coveted Broadway casting director Tara Rubin; Broadway/film/TV superstar Leslie Uggams; Tony-award winning actor Sutton Foster; Broadway stars Sarah Uriarte Berry, Rebecca Luker, Walter Charles, Harvey Evans, Sam Stoneburner, Gretchen Wyler, Hunter Foster, Erin Dilly, Stephen Buntrock, Jose Llana, Megan Osterhaus, Randal Keith, Sierra Boggess, Hugh Panaro, Jason Raize, Simone, and many others both onstage and behind the scenes.