ERIK BRYAN

Contact:	AEA Eligible	Baritone
719 641 5628		Range: Eb2-Bb4
ErikPBryan@aol.com		www.ErikBryan.net

 

THEATRE

*Phantom	Erik, the Phantom	Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, CO
The Light in the Piazza	Fabrizio Naccarelli	Piedmont Opera Company, NC
Charming & Dashing	Sir Dashing	Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival, PA
Evita	Ensemble	Country Dinner Playhouse, CO
Phantom	Count Philippe de Chandon	Country Dinner Playhouse, CO
Into The Woods	Cinderella’s Prince	Theresa Lang Theatre, NY
The Secret Garden	Archibald Craven	Fine Arts Center, CO
Jekyll & Hyde	Ensemble/US-Simon Stride	Arvada Center, CO Dir. Jamibeth Margolis
†Les Misérables	Javert	Fine Arts Center, CO
Romeo & Juliet	Romeo Montague	Roy J. Wasson Theatre, CO

*WINNER Best Actor in a Musical (2009 Denver Post Ovation Awards)

†Nominee Best Actor (2004 Peak Area Performance and Artists Awards)

 

OPERA AND CONCERT

Die Zauberflöte	Papageno	Pikes Peak Center, CO
Street Scene	Harry Easter	Pikes Peak Center, CO
Carmen	El Dancaïro	Pikes Peak Center, CO
Verdi’s Requiem	US-Bass Soloist	Ellie Caulkins Opera House, CO
La Bohème (Scenes)	Marcello	Denver Opera Company, CO
La Fille Du Régiment	Soldier	Colorado College Armstrong Hall, CO

 

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Marymount Manhattan College(Theatre Performance Major) 2004-2005
Voice	Martile Rowland, Stephen Fox, Debra Vanderlinde, Laurie Bammesberger
Acting	Debra Wiley Hart, Nancy Vogel, Kelly Walters, Susan Dawn Carson
Dance	Zetta Alderman, Haila Strauss, Betsy Acree
Stage Combat	Brian Dowling

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Performer and Production Assistant w/ Bryan Magic Productions

Performer and Production Assistant w/ Rocky Mountain Renaissance Festivals, Inc.

Emcee and Headliner in Home for the Holidays

Ultraviolet (Award Winning Jazz Vocal Ensemble)

Kum Quat Twee (Award Winning Men’s Contemporary A Cappella Ensemble)

A Cappella Aces (Madrigal Choir)

 

SPECIAL SKILLS

Piano, Violin (Proficient), Dance (Jazz, Basic Ballet, and Ballroom), Dialects (Standard British, Cockney, French, Italian, and Irish), Impressions (List Upon Request), Stage-Combat, Fencing, Illusionism, Close-up Magic

 

Height: 6’1”

Weight: 160 lbs.

Eyes: Green

Hair: Brown

 

Erik Bryan is a versatile actor who has performed across the country upon the operatic and musical theatre stage.  Most recently he was bestowed the 2009 Denver Post Ovation Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the role of Erik, the Phantom in Yeston & Koppit's Phantom at the Candlelight Dinner Playhouse. The similarity between the character's name and his own is not coincidental either. Erik was named after the character from the original Gaston Leroux novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra. Erik performed the role of Papageno in Opera Theatre of the Rockies’ preview performance of Die Zauberflöte in February, 2010. He visited Colorado Springs area high schools with the company's “Opera Theatre of the Rockies Goes to School” program. This has been the third year in a row he has been a principal performer with the company.

 

In October of 2008, Erik appeared as Fabrizio Naccarelli in the opera house premiere of the Light in the Piazza withNorth Carolina’s Piedmont Opera Company. He also made his operatic debut as El Dancaïro in Carmen with Opera Theatre of the Rockies in March of 2008.

 

Erik was born in Colorado Springs, CO to magicians John and Michèle Bryan. His first steps on the stage were at the age of four when he joined his parents in their magic act. Throughout his youth, he developed a passion for the theatre and a love of music. After five years of violin studies, he turned his attention to singing. High school gave him the first chance to perform fully staged musicals and by the end of his freshman year, he found himself working at the local community theatre. At seventeen, Erik won the high school vocal competition held by Martile Rowland’s Opera Theatre of the Rockies and was cast in the chorus of the company’s production of La Fille du Régiment. That same year, he played Inspector Javert in the Colorado Springs Premiere of Les Misérables, a performance which earned him a Peak Area Performance and Artist Award nomination for best actor. As he continued to pursue a life in the professional theatre, he graduated high school a semester early to perform in Jekyll & Hyde, his first Actors' Equity production, at the Arvada Center.

 

He then went to New York City to study at Marymount Manhattan College where he had the chance to perform the role of Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods at the Theresa Lang Theatre. After one year at Marymount, he returned to Denver to continue his studies privately. Since then his appearances have included productions with the Country Dinner Playhouse, Littleton Town Hall, Bryan Magic Productions, the Imagination Celebration, Opera Theatre of the Rockies, and Colorado College’s Vocal Arts Symposium. His association with Mitch Samu, the music director for the Country Dinner Playhouse, led him to the world of concert performance. Last March, Erik toured New Orleans with a solo concert featuring musical theatre and operatic repertoire. In addition to his musical career, Mr. Bryan is the co-creator of the National Renaissance Festival act Charming & Dashing in which he plays the role of Sir Dashing.