HOST
A regular host at “Yuk Yuks”, “But That’s Another Story”, “Tales at the Tranzac”, “Storytelling Toronto”, Briane began his hosting duties at the first Canadian Opera Company, post season Awards Ceremony. He has hosted a number of charity events and various bar mitzvahs.
For Reebok Canada, he hosted and helped created “The International Wacky Games”, held at the SkyDome
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”
Live Event 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’.
Television Producer
Briane spent almost a decade at YTV producing and creating the series, “NBA Dunk Street”, and “Don’t Lick the Pig”. He also helped produce “nanaLan”,
“Uh Oh” and “The Junior Jays”. He also co-produced two years of the “Muscular Dystrophy” telethon.
For insight Productions, Briane produced the cult comedy series “Test Pattern” and the comedy special “The Crystal Comedy Quest”, hosted by Bobby Bittman.
Almost Canadian Film Star
When a film director came to Yuk Yuks in Montreal to see Howie Mandel, Briane was on the bill. Howie got the lead, Briane was cast as Sheikh Fawsi in the film “Gas”. Unfortunately it did not become the summer blockbuster, he hoped. That summer year he had roles in “Tulips” and “The Funny Farm” (not that one).
Briane concluded his motion-picture, acting career, with a small, non-vocal in “blini”, directed by Peter Yates (Briane’s favourite and financially least-lucrative, film appearance)
Printed Word
After years writing for school newspapers, including the Senca, Innis Herald, and U of T Varsity, Briane was published in ”Take One” film magazine, when they bought a paper he did for his class, “Godzilla the Monster Behind the Myth.”
Tom Alderman a few years later interviewed “Canada’s Foremost Operatic Mute” for the Canadian magazine’s “CitySpan” section, and two weeks later hired him to freelance.
Other Stuff
Briane spent over a decade warming-up television audiences, for shows ranging from :”The $128,000 Question”, “The Genie Awards”, “The King of Kensington” and “Thrill of the Lifetime”, where he was a late-entry in the “Mr. Thrill Beauty Pageant”, and was the ninth runner-up.
Briane has attend four World Fairs, “murdered people” at mystery week-ends in New York, Toronto, Williamsburg and on the Royal Viking Sky and sold balloons at the Toronto Santa Clause Parade.
Reviews
“Nasimok is a very likeable performer, who had the audience eating out of his hand. The script is well-written and finely honed, as befits 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.” Rose Fernandez, CBC Manitoba
“A witty and ebullient man”, MacKenzie Porter, Toronto Sun
