Brent Allan Fidler

Brent is an award winning actor/screenwriter, novelist, film director and producer. A Canadian citizen & US permanent resident, Brent has appeared in over forty American television series and movies, earning a Best Actor Leo Award for his chilling performance in FF Coppola's First Wave. His performance as Edgar Allan Poe in his first produced feature Poe - Last days of the Raven garnered a Best Feature Award at the Cinema City International Film Festival at Universal Studios in Los Angeles and Brent was nominated for a Best Director Gemini Award. Personal career highlights include working with Al Pacino and Janis Chastain in the intimate Culver studios playing Pacino’s Pharisee in Salomaybe and a callback at Warner Bros for Macbeth with Joel Cohen, reading opposite Frances McDormid (Ellen Chenoweth – casting)Brent has written two professionally produced stage plays, Poe – The “highly” unusual life of Edgar A and Raising the Conch - The Way of the Kundalini Goddess. His screenplays have been optioned by the late Janis Chaskin at New Line Cinema and studio producer Doug Claybourne .He is also the President of Theater Crossing Film Corp. dedicated to producing feature films that have a high literary element and a strong moral and ethical component. Theater Crossing’s feature film on Edgar Allan Poe’s life, Poe Last Days of The Raven, was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Director for Mr. Fidler. It also won Best Feature Film at the Cinema City International Film Festival held in Los Angeles, run by Suzanne Du Laurentiis. Poe aired nationally on Bravo.Mr. Fidler has written three novels Shadows of Nagasaki – a sci-fi/horror story about reanimated atomic shadows who enact revenge on the descendants of the Manhattan Project and his two newly completed novels Crack’d – a biting satire about human vanity and the absurd cosmetic cures seven friends undertake to slow the aging process and The Goddess Waltz, a spiritual/new age autobiography. Both Crack’d and The Shadows of Nagasaki have recently been adapted into screenplays.As a teacher, Brent has lectured on producing independent feature films at Boston College and Conlin College in Texas. His ACTRA/UBCP workshops include Meditation for Actors, Acting for Hallmark and Stillness for the Camera, which Brent also taught at Film Training Manitoba.

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