Briane Nasimok

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Storyteller
Writer
Producer
Workshops

Every life is a story worth telling...

Confessions of an Operatic Mute

ABOUT THE SHOW

Canadian Comedy Award recipient, Briane Nasimok, remounts his critically acclaimed show inspired by his first career – as a non-singing performer with the Canadian Opera Company. Over a seven-year period Briane appeared in roles ranging from a “Nubian Slave” to an “Elegant Gentlemen”, logging 287 performances without singing a note.
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Sharing his successes and failures, both on stage and in romance, this comical one hour show, charts his course from the audience of the O’Keefe Centre in Toronto, when he was 8, to his adventures on tour visiting ten provinces and 38 states.
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After his retirement from opera Briane went on to a career as a stand-up comic in the Yuk Yuks circuit, appearing with Howie Mandel and Jim Carrey and on A&E’s “Evening at the Improv”.

“Confessions” which previewed at the SouloTheatre Festivals in Toronto May 2013 and in Totnes, England July 2014, was reimagined and directed for the Toronto Fringe Festival by Dora Award-winning director Peter Moss.

CREATIVE TEAM

Created & Performed by Briane Nasimok

Originally Directed by Peter Moss

Produced, Reconceived & Remounted by Lesley Ballantyne

PRESS

“One of the Top Ten Fringe Shows Not to Miss!”
- CBC Canada Writes
1 of “10 Must-See Shows at the Halifax Fringe”
- The Coast
“He had the audience eating out of his hand. The script is well-written as benefits a seasoned Gemini-nominated writer.  He’s a charming man with charming stories and listening to Nasimok is a delightful way to spend an evening”
- Rosie Fernandez - CBC Manitoba
“A laugh-a-minute riot with poignant undertones.  A not-to-be-missed comedy, with a warm heart”
-  Nina Scott -  Victoria Fringe

HISTORY

  • 2015 – Born as part of a SouloTheatre Workshop (12 minutes)
  • 2015 – 30 minute version performed at the Totnes, England Theatre Festival
  • 2016 – Full 55 minute show performed at Toronto and Winnipeg Fringes
  • 2017 – Atlantic Fringe Festival
  • 2018 – Victoria Fringe Festival
  • 2019 – Hamilton Fringe Festival

Storyteller

In Toronto Briane has performed as part of numerous International Storytelling Festivals and regularly appears at various local shows.
His three, one-person storytelling shows have played at Fringe Festivals across Canada .

During Covid he performed on-line in storytelling shows in Chicago, Boston, Ottawa, California and Mumbai and is a three-time winner of the Six Feet Apart Story Slam on-line completion out of California.

Writer

Briane has written for almost every genre.  He got his start writing children’s theatre and continued to entertain the younger set when he moved to television creating scripts for Canadian “Sesame Park”, “Fred Penners’ Place”, “Max and Ruby”, and Rotten Ralph”.

For film, he wrote and directed “tricia”, a short film that played commercial with “Birth of a Nation”.  He is a credited writer on the feature  film“Spring Fever”

He co-wrote “Dead Air’, which played at the Charlottetown Festival, over twenty interactive scripts for the Grafton Street Dinner and Feast Dinner Theatre and three one-person shows.

Producer

Briane began producing while still in high school, taking charge of a group which he named 2nd Century Players.  They performed children’s shows at Toronto’ Colonade Theatre for three years, as well as in public school.

He produces shows with Storytelling Toronto along with his monthly showcase Tales at the Tranzac, with co-producers Madeline Sedgewick and Andrew Wong through their company, ‘Tales Toronto’.

Workshops

Briane offers three workshops, storytelling, improvisation and corporate team building.

He has created workshops for; the.Toronto Board of Education; Telus; Sheridan College; the Charlottetown Festival; Toronto High School Principal’s Association; Humber College and Tales Toronto.

He can create a special program for organizations’ need.