Brian McManamon is an actor, teacher, and acting coach based in New York City. He currently teaches​ acting at The Juilliard School Extension Division, Advanced Acting at Syracuse University's Tepper​ Semester Program. In addition to running a private acting studio in New York City, Brian has taught​ and/or directed at The Juilliard School, the National Theater Institute (NTI) at the Eugene O’Neill Theater​ Center, Powerhouse Theater Training Program at Vassar College, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival,​ New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University’s MFA Acting program and the Public​ Theater. From 2015 to 2018, Brian served as artistic director of the Shakespeare Academy at Stratford.​ As an actor, Brian has trained with some of the most respected teachers of acting in America and abroad​ including Ron Van Lieu, Evan Yionoulis, Mark Wing-Davey, Austin Pendleton, Peter Francis James and​ the late John Barton. He received a BFA in Acting from Boston University, an MFA in Acting from the​ David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and was the recipient of a full scholarship to attend the​ Midsummer in Oxford program of the British American Drama Academy (B.A.D.A.) at Oxford University.​