Brandon was raised by an ordained mechanic and an opera singing preacher’s daughter. His parents worked hard to “train him up in the way he should go” (Prov 22:6) and guard him from beguiling influences. As a result, Brandon spent the first 22 years of his life in a Christian bubble: he worked for his parents’ drama ministry; was a student-teacher of theater at a Christian homeschool co-op during high school; was at church twice a week, every week; his best friends were all Christians; all the plays he knew were gospel centered. When he first ventured out of that bubble, it was to join the acting company of the A.D. Players, a professional Christian (again) theater in Houston. After three years of acting, teaching, and maintaining the theater building as a company member, he joined the 2010 cohort of BFAs in a theater department that was anything but Christian. The bubble was then truly burst. Brandon spent the next four years wrestling with unrecognized judgementalism, disorienting new perspectives, and what it means to be “like Christ” in theater. After 16 years of continuing that wrestling match in professional theater and academia, Brandon can be found in a Christian semi-bubble at Baylor University, where he teaches acting, movement, and stage combat. There he helps Christian students wrestle through their own “bubble-bursting” while introducing others to Jesus for the first time. During his 16-year interim as a theater professional, Brandon directed or fight directed more than 60 projects in educational and professional theatre. The play, Medea Myth, which he developed in conjunction with Prism Movement Theater has been produced in Maine, Virginia, and Texas. His acting experience has touched the extremes of theater – ranging from the classical to the avant garde. He holds an MFA in Theatre pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BFA in Theatre Studies (emphasis in Directing) from Southern Methodist University. He is also a Certified teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. His most recent research, Augmenting Critical Thought in Performance Art Course Design, was published in Fight Master in October of 2025. In his free time, Brandon manages a small plot of land with a couple of rentals on it, volunteers with Re:Generation Recovery (where he helps lead men out of addiction), and tries to honor Christ in how he loves his three daughters and wife.