In a critically acclaimed Broadway debut that Entertainment Weekly said "ignited the stage," Brian Charles Rooney appeared as Lucy Brown in The Threepenny Opera for The Roundabout Theatre Co., & subsequently won The Kurt Weill Foundation's Lys Symonette Award for Dramatic Excellence. Brian was among the 2024 Grammy Nominees for Sondheim Unplugged, and has been lauded by The NY Times for his performance as Dionne Salon in the hit Off-Broadway musical, Bedbugs!!! Other credits include: The Witch in the recent immersive Off-Broadway production of Into The Woods, Miss Blanche Tells It All (NYMF / Playwrights Horizons), and The UnCivil War. He won the CT Critics Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical as Candy Darling in POP! for Yale Rep, and was recently seen as The Emcee in Cabaret for Studio Tenn and as Buddy the Elf in Elf! The Musical for Nashville Rep. Brian was featured with Kristin Chenoweth in I Am Harvey Milk (Lincoln Center); and with Nathan Lane & Megan Mullally in Guys & Dolls (Carnegie Hall). IG: @briancharlesrooney
Theater Studies