About

Brian Alexander Davis is a Chicago-based stage actor who came to the theater by way of care work — and it shows in how he builds people, not performances.

Brian holds an MFA in Acting from Indiana University (May 2026), where his roles ranged from Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night and Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet to Omari in Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline and The Monster in Suzan-Lori Parks's Fucking A — classical verse and contemporary new work, comic and unsparing, often in the same season.

Before acting, he spent years as a Registered Behavior Technician working with children on the autism spectrum, after earning a B.S. in Recreational Therapy from Florida International University (magna cum laude). That work — reading people closely, meeting them where they are, staying patient inside hard moments — turned out to be actor training by another name.

Care work, it turns out, is actor training by another name: you learn to listen with your whole body.

At Indiana University he trained with Jenny McKnight, Grant Goodman, Nancy Lipschultz, Leraldo Anzaldua, Gretchen Hall, and Martha Jacobs — in acting, voice, movement, and stage combat (single sword and unarmed).

• BaseChicago, IL
• TrainingMFA Acting, Indiana University '26 · B.S. Recreational Therapy, FIU (magna cum laude)
• CombatSingle sword · Unarmed
• AccentsRP · New York
• Party trickSolves a Rubik's Cube in about 20 seconds