Consultancy
Corporate Theatre, Event Planning & Film
Expertise for Corporate Event Planning Theatre Film
Brendan Stapleton, Director, Producer, Performer Mime Specialist
Mime Specialist – Prosthetics (see showreel)
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Showreel
Includes first blue-screen commercials produced outside the USA
Brendan Stapleton plays all three Gorilla characters for the TCF Bank, Chicago USA.
International Mime Specialist
Experienced in the Choreography Direction of Prosthetic based teams
CREDIT: Commercial Directed by John Wright of Spitting Image
Advert for “Pot Noodle” performed with Ailsa Berk (Head of Movement, Dr Who Franchise).
CREDIT: International Performance Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Brendan Stapleton starred as ‘Shiny’ for cleaning brand ‘Jiff’
The characters devised, created & performed: ‘Shiny’ & ‘Sparkly’
Excellent Comedy Mime Performances
CREDIT: Tarzan & The Lost City (IMDb)
Co-ordinator for Ape-Movement Choreography
He was personally headhunted by Image Animations to choreograph the Ape movement in the feature Film ‘Tarzan and the Lost City’ (Greystokes II).
He was personally headhunted by Image Animations to choreograph the Ape movement in the feature Film ‘Tarzan and the Lost City’ (Greystokes II).
Starring alongside Casper Van Dein, Jane Marsh and Steven Waddington.
Brendan Co-ordinated and Choreographed in South Africa 1997.
Performing as “Red Eyes”, the protagonist of Tarzan, the Physical Theatre Animatronics expressed the intention of the scenes.
Working as an integral part of the Production Team to ensure optimal effectiveness of the Animatronics
CREDIT: BBC - "The Chronicles of Narnia"
Brendan Stapleton was personally invited to play the role of the heroic lion, ‘Aslan’ in the BBC’s globally acclaimed “Chronicles of Narnia”.
Episode 5: “Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”
Featured pictures taken in the BBC’s famous Blue Peter Garden
Multi-Media
Brendan Stapleton – multi-faceted performance artist.
‘Overdose’ by Blossom Hill playing The Devil & Harlequin Macabre characters.
The Keystone Detective film short. The Keystone Cop comedy character .
Improvisation leading to performance in video.
Crisis PhotoShoot
Christmas Photo-shoot for the charity 'Crisis'
Mime Artist Promotes Quiet Travel
"Silence was golden when Mime Artist Brendan Stapleton crept into Kings Cross to help launch Great North Eastern Railway's New Quiet Coaches".
Silent seats in designated do not disturb Coaches
MARKING THE IRISH EASTER RISING OF 1916
Birmingham's Sellout Success
The Harp News , November 2016
From: ANNA MCKIERNAN
Sent: 25 October 2016
Hi Brendan,
” You were an absolute star! ……I am so happy you played that part, what a brilliant performance.”
Thanks,
Anna
World Living Statues
Designed Still Life Statue Performances at International Events:
European Statue Championships – Lommel, Belgium
World Living-Statue Championship – Altmaar, Netherlands
Award winning Performers
Bespoke Productions
Rembrandt as Rembrandt (self portrait)
Using digital manipulation, classic paintings were transformed to reveal what the subjects would have looked like if they were taken as a photograph in real life.
This art project selected performers to celebrate some of the most famous painters in history.
Brendan Stapleton as the self portait of Rembrandt. Recreated using digital manipulation to celebrate “Raiders of the Lost Art” airing on the TV Channel Yesterday.
Leading digital artist Quentin Devine was fascinated by the project and impressed at the skill of the performer to represent this iconic artwork.
Brendan Stapleton’s Rembrandt, was personally invited to participate in the World Living Statues Festival, 2022
Robotics
Brendan Stapleton is one of the World’s leading mime artists and one of the leading exponents of the Art of Performance Robotics.
He studied Dance Theatre at the Laban Centre (Trinity Laban). He Trained in Physical Mime Theatre with Desmond Jones, Daniel Stein, Monica Pagneux, and the International French company Theatre Du Mouvement.
He has worked with Mega Producer Mark Ronson as a Robot Dancer on the video ‘Just’ and was the Mime Demonstrator on Big Brother 9.
American Express
In the 1980s he starred as the Robot Businessman in the American Express Commercial made for the United States
TV Advert: Amstrad
Robot with the ‘exploding’ head
Volvo: "Crash Test Dummy"
RU1 and RU1-2: Robots for the Corporate Market
Robot Character - QT1.
Green Screen experience includes ‘This Morning Television’ performing Pantomime.
Endemol has also employed Brendan as Mime teacher on the Reality Sleep-deprivation TV Show ‘Shattered’.
He will have been seen on ‘Coleen’s Real Women’ for ITV 2 as the Mime Co-ordinator Consultant.
Brendan Stapleton was the BBC’s Mime-in-Residence. He was interviewed by Graham Boydon about the legacy of Marcel Marceau and Mime for BBC Radio Oxford.
Choreography
Choreographer Brendan Stapleton encompasses great diversity.
As a Movement Consultant he has contributed extensively to creating devised productions in the Corporate Arena.
Persevered Text
Brendan Stapleton, Choreographer in collaboration with Contemporary Dancer Claude St Arrowman.
Installation: Are You Experienced?
Britain’s first “interactive installation” was a Contemporary Dance Multi-Media Production.
This was a collaborative, immersive choreographical project by Brendan Stapleton.
Premiered at Subterrania, London
Brendan Stapleton Robotic/Mime Consultant on the staged choreography on this production.
‘Indecent Exposure’ a ‘House of Fetish’ project with the International Production Company ‘Torture Garden’.
Director
Devised shows for Corporate Events & Festivals
This is where his vast experience training in Dance, Mime, Acting & Physical Theatre has proven amazingly successful.
Ape Co-ordinator in the feature film – Tarzan & The Lost City, working with Image Animations distributed by Village Roadshow.
Companies he has directed also include the Robotic Mime group ‘Man Machine’, ‘Dummy Dudes’, ‘MimeScape’, and the inventive Mime/Dance Cabaret Act ‘The Mimetics
He was a Creative Director for ‘Mimescope’ (Physicality) and also created ‘The Company of Cranks’ to explore the boundaries of physical theatre.
Dramaturgy
The Art of Performance
The ideas created in a production are researched, notes taken as inspiration for future projects.
Ideas are captured, distilled and then re-expressed in new formats.
He was sent by the British Council as their representative to the International Dramaturgy Forum in Zagreb 1992.
Brendan Stapleton is a founder member of the British Association of Choreographers and a member of Equity’s Choreographer and Variety Committees.
Brendan has worked extensively bringing Dance & Choreography to The Visually Impaired & Deaf Communities with Theatre In Education.
He was involved with an international collaboration between Very Special Arts (USA) & The Royal Ballet Educational Unit (Royal Opera House).
Brendan’s in-depth experience knowledge allows him to capture the essence of a project to apply with instinct originality to be grasped.
'These Associations'
Project held at the Tate Modern 2012 for THE CULTURAL OLYMPIAD – concurrent with The London Olympic Games
International Choreographer -Tino Sehgal
Participants were internationally diverse with Brendan Stapleton amongst others.
Shortlisted for “The Turner Prize” 2013
Thus making Brendan Stapleton amongst others an ‘Art Object’
Award: Health Safety Performance Certificate
Brendan Stapleton has been awarded the Health Safety Performance Certificate from the British Actors Equity Association (Equity)
