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Brett grew up in Bethesda, Maryland where he played three different Varsity sports including Football, Volleyball and Wrestling. Around that time Brett also started playing the drums and quickly formed a punk rock band with his brother Ryan, named The Disco Shivas. They played a total of four very memorable performances, most notably at a local Maryland dive bar for a crowd of zero people.
Brett's acting career really began as a modeling career at age eleven when he strutted the catwalk during a Model Search America Expo and much to his and his mother's surprise he was called back by several agencies in the mid-Atlantic region. He quickly signed with a local talent agency and by sheer luck started working in print, radio and promo videos.
He caught his first break at the age of fourteen when he auditioned for the role of a singing flower peddler in a revival of William Wycherley's 'The Country Wife" at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC. He brought the director to tears (of laughter) with his attempt to sing the national anthem and he was aptly cast in a not-so-singing role. He promptly fell in love with the theatre and the oddball characters it attracted.
A year later he was cast in his first feature film, Hearts in Atlantis, starring Anthony Hopkins and the up-and-coming Anton Yelchin. His first scene ever was opposite Sir Hopkins, who Brett was convinced might want to eat him with a side of fava beans. A year later Brett was cast as Gaylen Gilmore in the HBO Feature Film 'Shot in the Heart,' directed by Agnieszka Holland and starring Sam Shepard, Amy Madigan, Giovanni Ribisi, Elias Koteas, and Lee Tergesen.
Brett was then cast as the lead in a Discovery Channel Movie of the Week, "A Haunting in Connecticut," Where he played Paul Parker, a cancer patient who makes a pact with the devil. Both "A Haunting..." and "Heart's in Atlantis" can still be found playing on cable networks.
Brett then found himself in New York City where he spent five years studying the craft of acting from a disciple of Lee Strasberg's. Brett performed in dozens of both original plays and classical productions. During this time he also began boxing training with several professional boxers.
Brett then moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. Since that time he has written and produced three short films, two of which he also starred in and directed. The first two films, 'Bed-Stuy Lullaby' and 'Jam' both traveled to the Cannes International Film Festival and combined, screened in over ten festivals. Brett's latest short film, "The Weeper," a story about a guy who spontaneously starts crying and can't stop, is currently in the festival circuit.
Brett has been hailed in the LA theatre scene for his roles as Alvin in "War Bride," Lee Harvey Oswald in "Sunny Afternoon," Dayne in Del Shore's hit play "Yellow, " and Van in "Dog Sees God."
At the moment, Brett is writing his first feature film as well as developing several projects for television and the Internet. Brett continues to act, box and drum, and is working on completing an album with his new band, "Be Headed For Greatness."
