Brian Barnhart

SAG/AFTRA AEA

Brian Barnhart - Photo by Regina Betancourt

Returning 10.28.26

"The play pivots magnificently upon the arrival of a visitor, portrayed by Brian Barnhart with bewildered elegance. Ejected from a neighboring vessel in a small escape pod, he may be an “Andro-Primatus,” a shape-shifting alien capable of mimicking humanity and worth an enormous bounty. Or he may simply be another victim of contaminated SUP suffering catastrophic neurological damage. Sharp wisely refuses certainty. Barnhart’s performance hovers between alien innocence and psychotic fracture, particularly when he stares at his own body in horror and mutters, “Something’s banging in my chest. I’m standing on two things touching the ground.” It is one of the evening’s funniest lines and also one of its most chilling. Human embodiment itself suddenly appears grotesque and implausible." - TheaterScene

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