Brian Swibel is a Chicago born writer, director and producer,. He is the founder of b. swibel presents, a New York and Los Angeles based entertainment company (affiliated with Playing Pretend Productions) that develops and produces diverse forms of media and arts education programming. His numerous projects have garnered him two Tony Award nominations and a Kodak Emerging Filmmakers Award.
Joined the The Piven Theater Workshop in Evanston, Illinois as a child, where he starred as Icarus in Icarus in the young People's Company. The Piven Theater is a Chicago Theater performance and training institute founded by Byrne and Joyce Piven, the parents of Jeremy Piven. It is also where John and Joan Cusack began acting.
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Favorite pie in the world is Baker Sqaure's French Silk.
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Trained in wilderness survival by NOLS (National outdoor Leadership School). Has won prizes for horsemanship, is a certified scuba diver and also played basketball and football in high school, where he was nicknamed "Gump", for his speed.
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Left home to hitchhike before he was 15 and ended up spending time in lock downs, before landing in an institutionalized cult, in California, which he left at the age of 17, to return to acting.
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