Bryan Doerries
Bryan Doerries is a writer, director, and translator who serves as Artistic Director of Theater of War Productions, presenting charged performances of seminal texts, led by acclaimed actors, for audiences with something at stake to catalyze crucial dialogue about pressing, current issues.
The company has presented projects across the United States and the world, taking place in homeless shelters, jails, military bases, hospitals, housing projects, churches, public parks, rival gang territories, but also in cultural spaces, radio, and Zoom.
Books include The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today, The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan, All That You’ve Seen Here is God, and Oedipus Trilogy. He has received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Kenyon College, Public Artist in Residence for the City of New York, Hastings Center Fellow, and the Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize.