Brian Postalian

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Images from my directing, producing and collaborative work.

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190 images · 37 projects

Performers gather in a playful ensemble formation, with one reaching forward.
An ensemble crowds around a seated performer wearing a donkey headpiece.
Brian Postalian speaks at a microphone during an industry event.
People gather around a table of festival materials.
Three performers reach toward one another amid colourful paintings on the Beauty and the Beast: My Life set.
Performers move colourful painted panels across a purple-lit stage.
Two performers kneel face to face and raise their hands in a close scene.
Niall McNeil wears a crown and a vividly coloured costume under a spotlight.
Three dancers move against a vivid orange, green and blue background.
Artists share a thread-based performance at the Gathering Hope residency sharing at Morrow.
Matriarchs Uprising artists and festival team pose together at the 2024 opening ceremony, with Brian Postalian standing at the right.
A performer wears a sculptural costume made of curled paper strips.
Ken Harrower and another performer appear beside a projected mountain landscape and the word ELKFORD.
An ensemble stands around Ken Harrower beneath projected captions in The Flin Flon Cowboy.
Ken Harrower performs alongside a live country band on a blue-lit stage.
Ken Harrower wears a cowboy hat beneath purple projected text during The Flin Flon Cowboy.
Performers and audience members share an open floor in a red-curtained room.
A performer smiles broadly from his wheelchair in front of red curtains.
Two seated performers gesture to their audience.
Performers gather beside a painted doorway and red curtains.
A seated performer brings both hands toward his face during an audience exchange.
A performer in a hat gestures from his wheelchair.
A performer in a sleeveless top raises an arm while seated.
A performer raises flowing red fabric on a rocky island above a river, with a raft at the water’s edge.
A performer stands in a kitchen behind a bed on the Fefu set.
An ensemble gathers across a kitchen and living-room set.
Two performers stand beside a kitchen cabinet, one wearing a blue skirt.
A performer lies on a bed beneath a concentrated pool of light.
A performer in a pale green costume looks upward in close-up.
A performer sits beside a tall cabinet on a dimly lit stage.
Two performers in floral and yellow costumes face each other.
Players lean over a wooden game board beneath a hanging lamp.
An overhead view reveals several game tables under red fabric canopies.
A group smiles around a game board.
A player in a striped shirt faces others across a table.
Hands move cards and wooden pieces on a game board.
A player watches an online performance on a laptop.
An online New Societies performance shows a grid of participants.
A hand rests beside a phone displaying a New Societies message.
A player wearing glasses considers the board beneath a lamp.
A player leans forward over a warmly lit game board.
A performer looks directly toward the viewer across a tabletop.
A smiling performer reaches across a table holding a playing card.
A performer rests both hands beside a card on a table.
Two participants share cards and handwritten notes in a split-screen performance.
An illustrated character holds cards in a virtual performance environment.
A performer speaks at close range with an audience member inside a small wooden room.
An interactive online performance asks the participant to complete a timed equation.
A tiled online performance repeats a participant’s face across the screen.
A participant’s face appears within a circular online performance interface.
An online performance presents a mock television shopping advertisement.
A white hand-drawn outline surrounds a participant on a dark screen.
Two people speak face to face inside an intimate wooden performance room.
A performer reaches toward a seated audience member’s forehead.
A performer leans toward someone inside a small wooden booth.
Audience members gather in a room beneath strings of lights.
A performer jumps beside a picnic basket while a seated partner points toward the viewer.
Two performers stand back to back on grass with their hands raised.
Two performers sit beside a picnic basket on a lawn.
A standing performer raises an arm beside a seated partner.
Two performers gesture around a picnic basket outdoors.
Artists perform beside colourful projections in a studio.
An orchestra performs beneath a large projection screen in a concert hall.
Artists and equipment occupy a studio with projected images.
Layered silhouettes appear in projected images across a studio wall.
An audience watches performers and projection screens in a studio.
Five costumed performers raise teacups to their faces in a comic dining-room scene.
Costumed performers crowd together around a maid in a comic scene.
Five performers sit closely together at a dining table.
A performer addresses the room while others watch beside a brick wall.
An ensemble huddles together with papers in hand.
Costumed performers stand apart across a dining-room set.
A performer in a dark suit raises one arm beside a blue-costumed performer.
An ensemble gathers along a long dining table.
Performers gather beside a giant skull under red stage lighting.
Performers gather beside an illuminated skull under purple light.
A performer wearing glasses speaks with an open, smiling expression.
Performers and audience members gather closely together.
A performer raises a hand on a spare platform.
Two people exchange a small object among a seated audience.
A performer stretches both arms across a bare stage.
A performer raises an arm beside a tall wooden frame.
A performer extends one arm while holding a wooden frame.
A performer holds a wooden frame at an angle under blue light.
A performer lies onstage beside a wooden frame.
A performer in a green jacket leans forward under a spotlight.
Performers kneel among scattered books and torn paper in an amber-lit room.
Four performers stand around a field of loose paper and books.
A performer strides across a magenta-lit floor.
A performer curls inside a compartment in a white shelving unit.
An audience gathers beneath bright stage lights in a hazy performance space.
A smiling performer in a lavender suit exchanges a card with an audience member.
A row of seated participants watches across a brightly lit platform.
Silhouetted participants gather beneath bright stage lights.
A hand writes a note during an audience encounter.
Two shirtless performers meet in a close physical embrace.
Two performers lean closely together in warm stage light.
Two performers sit apart on a low wooden platform.
A performer in a white shirt gestures beside a wooden platform.
One performer stands above another on a blue-lit wooden platform.
Two performers share a tense exchange beside a chair.
A performer in a red hat sits at a table under warm light.
An ensemble moves across a wide stage under purple and white lights.
Blurred moving figures surround a colourful stage set reflected on the floor.
Performers occupy a blue and magenta geometric set.
Two faces appear in illuminated openings within a dark set.
An ensemble moves across a stage beneath warm overhead lights.
Performers stand across a dark stage reflected in its glossy floor.
A performer holds the face of a blindfolded participant in an intimate encounter.
A performer leans toward a reclining audience member in an intimate encounter.
A performer gently holds the hands of a blindfolded participant.
A performer embraces a blindfolded participant.
Two hands meet beside blue geometric wall markings.
A blindfolded participant is guided through a room in a wheelchair.
A barefoot performer stands beside a projection reading I FAILED.
A barefoot performer raises one hand under a concentrated spotlight.
A performer kneels barefoot on a spare stage.
A performer addresses the room with hands gathered at chest height.
A performer stands beside a paper figure and projected drawings.
A performer gestures beside a strong shadow cast on a wall.
A performer works at a lamp-lit desk beside a laptop.
A performer looks toward a laptop beside a projected face.
A performer stands beside layered projected faces and writing.
An ensemble sends loose papers into the air above a row of chairs.
Two performers in green and grey sit facing each other and smile.
An ensemble stands in a staggered line across a bare room.
A performer leans toward an audience member in a close encounter.
A projected face appears above a performer in a dark room.
A large projected face appears above a seated performer.
An audience watches performers from the edges of a dark room.
Three performers stand around a table under blue light.
An ensemble reaches upward around a raised performer beneath blue light.
A performer appears beside blue illuminated lines and projection.
Two people exchange objects across a table in rehearsal.
Two performers face each other in a bright rehearsal room.
Projected faces and hanging photographs fill a dimly lit room.
Two people meet across a small lamp-lit table.
Projected images appear above a room filled with tables and objects.
A lamp illuminates photographs and small objects spread across a table.
An ensemble reaches upward around a raised performer beneath purple light.
An ensemble gathers around a raised performer in a schoolroom scene.
An ensemble in blue uniforms gathers in a brick-lined outdoor space.
Performers address a classroom full of seated audience members.
A performer in a red sweater stands outdoors beneath autumn trees.
A performer in a school blazer stands under green light.
An audience fills a hall beneath scattered lights and a bright stage beam.
Three performers sit side by side facing the viewer.
Three performers make expansive physical gestures in rehearsal.
Two smiling performers hold script pages in a rehearsal room.
Two seated performers exchange lines from printed scripts.
A performer extends an arm across a rehearsal room.
Performers sit apart on chairs across a bright rehearsal floor.
A red-haired performer holds a glass in a dark performance space.
Performers sit apart on chairs in a bright rehearsal room.
Two performers face one another in a dimly lit scene.
An overhead view shows performers seated across a rehearsal room.
The shadow of a performer and a small bird appears on a pale curtain.
A performer carries a lamp beside small silhouettes projected on a curtain.
A performer wearing a top hat and an eye mask gestures onstage.
A performer stands among glowing lamps.
A performer and a large shadow face a pale curtain.
A performer wearing a patterned dress looks upward in lamplight.
A performer stands beside a desk inside a geometric framework of suspended frames.
A performer in a short-sleeved shirt raises an object above their head.
A performer leans against a large angular white piano.
Performers in sculptural costumes form a diagonal ensemble composition.
A performer extends a long pale train across a dark stage.
A performer appears above a tall angular piano shape.
An ensemble in black and white costumes surrounds a seated figure.
Two performers face each other across an open stage.
A seated silhouette faces bright stage lights.
Two performers stand beside a large projected puppet face.
Loose pages fall over three performers beside a wooden table.
Two performers in white shirts meet in a close physical exchange.
A seated performer looks toward a standing partner.
Two performers hold one another’s hands in a close scene.
A performer leans across a red sofa and reaches outward.
A performer in a brown jacket gestures animatedly.
A musical-theatre ensemble reaches outward in a layered formation.
An ensemble forms a layered shape with outstretched arms under green light.
An ensemble raises a framed face above their heads.
Four performers gesture in a line beneath bright stage lights.
Three performers lean forward together in a close ensemble scene.
An ensemble forms curved shapes with raised arms.
A performer reaches upward through a plume of smoke.
A performer in a pale costume reclines under blue stage light.
A costumed ensemble gathers around a seated figure on a patterned stage.
Performers stand across a circular purple-lit scenic design.
A performer in a gold dress stands before an ensemble.
A seated performer in white occupies the foreground of a red-lit stage.

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