Brian Demar

Brian Demar Jones is an actor, singer, director and acting coach based in New York City. He has
appeared in dozens of productions both off-Broadway and across the country and has served as
director or co-director of many plays, including “Twelfth Night” with Rude Grooms theatre group in
New York City; “Shakesbeer” with the New York Shakespeare Exchange; “Happy Days: The
Musical” with the Oregon Conservatory for the Performing Arts; and “Ten-Minute Play Festival” at
the University of Idaho.
Jones was a core member of the Orchard Project in 2014, a member of the Seattle Children’s
Theatre Apprentice Teaching Artist Program in 2009, and a resident artist with the Anthropologists
from 2017 to 2018. He appeared on the NBC series “Grimm” in 2015, as well as in several short
films including “Surprise” in 2017 and “Introvert’s Guide to Activism” in 2018.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts in acting from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in
theater from Binghamton University.
He is extremely gracious and blessed to be part of the Inaugural Obsidian Theatre Festival. Black
Stories. Black Artists. Black Love. Black Lives.