Brendon Rogers

Brendon Rogers, born in Bridgeport, CT is an award winning actor, director and producer. Despite an early interest in being a writer, Rogers was encouraged by his Stratford High School theater arts teacher, Francis Piazza, to continue to pursue acting. Rogers followed his advice and enrolled in The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, where he would go on to meet his future friend and collaborator Jamian Nass. After college, Rogers appeared in several theatrical and independent film productions in CT before moving to central Florida in 2000 look after his parents, who had moved there earlier, and to take advantage of that state's film incentives at the time. His time in the Orlando area saw Rogers develop a prolific theater resume, including his award winning performances as "Nick" in Joe DiPietro's "Over the River and Through the Woods", "David Kahn" in Andrew Bergman's "Social Security", "Roat" in Frederick Knott's "Wait Until Dark" and as "Lucifer" in the world premiere production of Jamian Nass' "Alice and the Angels". Often cast as ruthless villains or cold blooded cynics, some of Rogers other notable stage roles include "Jack Lawson" in David Mamet's "Race", "Gary/Roger" in "Noises Off", "Van Helsing" in "Dracula", "Jonathan" in "Arsenic and Old Lace", "Mr. Franklin" in "Children of a Lesser God", "Ross" in "The Elephant Man", "Willie Conklin" in "Ragtime", "Henry VIII" in "A Man For All Seasons" and "Hollywood" in "The Eight: Reindeer Monologues" among many others. In addition to acting, Rogers also won awards for directing a number of stage productions including Ira Levin's "Deathtrap", "Hello, Dolly!" and Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" along with several others. While working in the Orlando-area theater circuit, Brendon came to meet his friend and producing partner Sonny Dyon. Together they became two of the core members of QiCo Films and have gone on to collaborate on the crime thriller short film Clarity (in which they both appeared) and the horror short, The Grove. Clarity became the first short film to ever win the Audience Choice Award at the Central Florida (CENFLO) Film Festival in 2015 and The Grove became the second to do so in 2016. The Grove also went on to win "Best Horror Short" at the Studio City Film Festival. In addition to working on their first feature length QiCo film together, Dyon and Rogers are also developing an animated series called Relatively Super starring Gary Anthony Williams, Mark Hamill, Kevin Conroy, Jon Heder and Micheal Dorn. While continuing to collaborate with Dyon, Rogers also keeps busy with acting projects independent from QiCo Films, including playing the titular role on the mystery/thriller audio podcast The Adventures of Gerard Dupris. In 2017 Brendon Rogers succeeded Bob Cook as Executive Director of the CENFLO Film Festival and has since relocated the festival to the Epic Theatres at Mount Dora, FL for it's 13th year. When not acting, producing and developing a literary series, Brendon enjoys traveling home to New York and New England, catching up on his DVR queue and writing about himself in the third person. - IMDb Mini Biography By: BHR