Brendan Bailey is a multidisciplinary artist as well as a versatile and adaptable individual. An accomplished actor, singer, playwright, poet, theatrical director, and educator, Brendan is less known for his compelling track record of success spanning multiple industries. He has repeatedly proven strong educational, managerial, administrative, and leadership competencies: a restaurant general manager, business operator, industrial production supervisor, BCWS fire warden, volunteer fire fighter, and Fire Chief.
Brendan, and his wife, Emily, are also the artistic directors and production managers of Noble Players Theatrics, a small theatrical production company focused on bringing stories connected to BC’s various gold rushes to the stage.
Over recent years, Brendan has perhaps become best-known for his performance-art act during which he performs his intimate, vulnerable, and sometimes erotic poetry on stage while wearing only a gold pan; an act he originated in 2011 during the Sunset Theatre’s popular seasonal fundraiser, the Sunset Cabaret. He is also known professionally for his work as a prospector turned bounty hunter in the 2019 VIFF Official Selection and Bell Media-produced, Shadow Trap (which was available to stream on Crave for 18 months between May 2020 and September 2021).
He has spent more than a decade portraying historic 19th Century Scotsman, James Anderson, and Cornishman, Richard Goldsworthy, seasonally in Barkerville Historic Town and Park which has included leading tours, performing on stage, in the street, in the courthouse, on the waterwheel, and working in historic trades such blacksmithing, typesetting and printing while educating and hosting visitors in an immersive open-air theatrical experience as a daily life historical interpreter.
Brendan is also a published poet, historian, and author. He is presently researching and writing a book on the museum-history of Barkerville Historic Town and Park called Where the Past is Present, Loving Living History in Barkerville, BC.
The Baileys live in a small mountain community in the interior of BC where they are focused on raising their family and producing compelling theatre. They are active volunteers and community members in historical, theatrical, and emergency services, are restoring an historic 1930s family mining home, and spend their little free time exploring the beautiful wilderness just outside their backdoor.
