Biographie
Breton Tyner-Bryan is an American born multi award winning director, writer, actor, choreographer, editor, with Canadian roots, based in New York City. Known for her lifelong obsession with time travel, humor, historical interiors, and classic automobiles, she often writes and directs in the metaphysical sci fi, dark comedy, and musical genres. A classically trained ballet dancer and award-winning filmmaker, she grew up in the theater in Hartford, CT, and serves as a creative director for Grammy winning musicians. OC Movies, TV & Streaming has compared her work to Darren Aronofsky film Black Swan and Voyeur's Room 104 calling it "an impressionistic fantasy with eye catching visuals, a fresh take on storytelling". Film Threat has described her works as "a stylish and crafted presentation" that "succeeds in telling an engaging and intriguing story." Unseen films called her work "a delight for the eye and ear, a visual feast". Her highly decorated films have won over 150 awards globally including Best Director, Best Editor, Best Narrative Short, Best Dance film, screening at Berlin Commercial, London Fashion Film Festival, World London Film Festival, Madrid International Film Festival, Dances With Films Chinese Theater and Regal Cinemas, Micheaux Film Festival, La Femme Film Festival, Emberlight International Film Festival, La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival, Lift Off Global Network London Pinewood Studios, Paris International Short Festival, New York International Women's Festival, Bucharest Film Awards, Big Apple AGENTS AND MANAGERS Lab, ASVOFF14 Paris, French Riviera Film Festival, Stockholm Short Film Festival, Paris Short Film Festival, Bucharest Film Awards, Vegas Movie Awards, Silk Road Film Awards Cannes, New York International Film Awards, New York City International Film Festival, Barcelona Indie Awards, Cannes 7th Art Awards, Europe Music Video Awards, Grahla International Film Awards, Istanbul Film Awards, Tokyo Film Festival, Swedish International Film Festival, Palermo International Film Festival ,and Vienna International Film Awards.
Live directing credits include Merryn John's "Love Is A Blue Jay", Village Playwrights NYC, "All About Love" New Victory Theater, installations for New York Fashion Week, The Pierre Taj Hotel, , and Sonas Denim Commercial. Choreographic works include "Divorce" (HBO), Saturday Night Fever (Engeman Theater), Heading East starring BD Wong, Dora (Prospect Theater), Vinegar Tom (Theater C), Retrofactory (Theater C), Peter Pan (Dreamland Stages), Cotton Candy and Cocaine (New York Theater Barn), Madonna X Pantsuit Power Flashmob, and Donny Most's concert tours; choreographic men-tee under Sergio Trujillo for The Donna Summer musical on Broadway, choreographic labs for Waitress (Broadway), Twelfth Night (Public Theater), Encore's God Bless You Mr. Rosewater; and she has received commissions from New York University, Marymount, AMDA, and The Martha Graham Dance Company's Benefit for Haiti. She is a CUNY awardee and Dance Lab New York connect artist with Sam Pinkleton and Josh Prince. As ballet mistress for Sleep No More she has choreographed and performed for McKittrick Follies and was ballet mistress for Ballet Hispanico. She is the executive producer and founder of Breton Follies Productions, featured at New Victory Theater 42nd Street, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and City Center. She is known for "The Penguin" (HBO), "Manifest" (Netflix), "Gossip Girl" (HBO), "Billions" (Showtime), "Divorce" (HBO), Shackled, working alongside Sarah Jessica Parker and Molly Shannon, The Knick alongside Clive Owen, "Studio City "(VICE), "Manhattan Love Story" (ABC), Shackled (in production), TEST, and Stories from the Microchasm with John Sanborn.
She has taught for New York University, Fordham University, Smith College, Berklee NYC, Broadway Dance Center, Joffrey Ballet School, The Place (London), Dance Base Scotland, San Francisco State University, LINES Ballet, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. She was named the 2024-2025 Teaching Artist in Residence and Arts Entrepreneurship fellow at the NYU Wasserman Center for Career Development's Creative Career Hub in residence at the NYU Production Lab. She holds a MA in Filmmaking from NYU, a BFA in Ballet Performance from the University of Utah and received her training at the School of the Hartford Ballet. ESCAPE marks her New York City gallery debut, having exhibited multiple photographic collections of her work at the Goethe Institute, Five Point Art House Gallery, and Dance Mission Theater in San Francisco. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Deadline, Curve Magazine, Broadway World, Pointe Magazine, Dance Magazine and the Huffington Post. She often plays detectives and tough seductive characters collaborating regularly with cinematographer Michael J. Burke. Her heritage is Native American, Jewish German, Spanish, Italian, Irish, French, and Indian. She is named for Cape Breton, Nova Scotia where her family created a commune.
Upcoming directorial work includes There and Now, from Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting winner Andrew Shearer and Jennifer Jones, Ryan Willer's The Scaffolder's Wife, and Vince Grittani's musical Wake Me When It's Over. Her feature film, Take Your Teeth Out and TV series, "I Dream of Hazel" are also in development alongside 10 other feature films she is attached to direct, and a docu-series as writer-director. You can see her debuting on the second season of "Great Kills" on Tubi, and "The 3-2 Pulldown" alongside Corey Feldman.
