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 August 11, 2010 - We are pleased to announce that Julian has been cast as the son in the upcoming production of "Cleanin' Out My Closet" presented by Thunderclap Productions, directed by Justin Doran, and written by Aaron Alon. The two person cast also features the incredibly talented Tamara Siler, who worked with Julian previously in Caroline, or Change at Main Street Theater.
The play is part of The Great Storm, a series of ten 10-minute plays written by four Houston-area playwrights about Hurricane Ike, which devastated Galveston, TX and the surrounding areas in September 2008. Thunderclap Productions hopes to raise awareness of the sustained damage from the storm, to present an evening of enjoyable and challenging theatre, and to commemorate the two-year anniversary of the storm.
In the amusing short play "Cleanin' Out My Closet", a black woman uses the moment when she and her white son are trapped in a closet during Ike to tell him he was adopted.
The production runs September 9th through 18th, with performances at 8:00pm on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets and more information are available online at www.thunderclapproductions.com. We hope to see you there!
 August 11, 2010 - "The CareTaker" written and directed by William Collins, Eye Candy Films, is scheduled to premiere September 17th - 19th, 2010. The film stars Jared Doreck, Paxton Gilmore, Julian Brashears, Rebecca Bertot and Joe Grisaffi.
Julian plays Young Roland in the film, which is a coming of age drama. Roland suffers from a most unusual detriment - one that causes people near him to drop dead. This has caused Roland an unnatural amount of grief, causing him to accept life as a recluse, nihilistic and withdrawn. Roland will discover that sometimes the worst situations can hide, cloaked in chaos, our calling. For Roland, a chance crossing with a dying girl will spell out his reason for existing, and uncloak his future purpose in the universe.
You can find more information about the film, including photos from the shoot, at www.caretakermovie.com. Very limited seating is available for the premiere screenings.
Click here to view the trailer.
 June 22, 2010 - We are pleased to announce that Julian has been cast as Howard in Playhouse 1960’s upcoming production of Inherit the Wind, directed by Andrew Adams, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee.
One of the most meaningful plays in American history, it is a fictionalized account of the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial, which resulted in John T. Scopes' conviction for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to a high school science class, contrary to a Tennessee state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution. The fictional characters Matthew Harrison Brady, Henry Drummond, Bertram Cates and E. K. Hornbeck correspond to the historical figures of William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, John Scopes, and H. L. Mencken, respectively. However, the playwrights state in a note at the opening of the play that it is not meant to be an historical account. Their intent was to criticize the then current state of McCarthyism or anti-Communist investigations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) and Senator Joseph McCarthy. The authors used the historical Scopes trial as the background for a drama that comments on and explores the threats to intellectual freedom presented by the anti-communist hysteria. In 1996 Lawrence commented in an interview that, "we used the teaching of evolution as a parable, a metaphor for any kind of mind control [...] It's not about science versus religion. It's about the right to think."
For more information about the production, visit www.inherit-the-wind.com.
The production runs July 30th through August 15th, with performances at 8:00pm on Fridays and Saturdays, and Sunday matinees at 3:00pm on August 8th and 15th. Tickets are available online at www.ph1960.com. We hope to see you there!
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