Past Projects
Brain
Toured 2015-2020
Brain maps Brendan’s experiences with obsessive compulsive disorder – from a teenager struggling to understand his obsessions to an adult battling psychosis. A nuanced journey through the nature of thought, “Brain” is an upbeat, intense comedy about the miracle of the mind. Winner of the Pick of the Fringe (2015 Van Fringe), Best Male Performer (2015 Victoria Fringe), Best Solo Show (nominee, Vic Fringe), Best Overall Show (nominee, Vic Fringe), and the Critic’s Choice Award (Van Fringe).
Exultation
Toured 2020
A musical storytelling collaboration based on the life and music of Rachmaninoff.
“Exultation” is an intoxicating music and storytelling collaboration from Brendan McLeod. Interspersed with a live performance of all thirteen preludes of Rachmaninoff’s Opus 32, Brendan McLeod, weaves a series of poems and stories that explore Rachmaninoff's struggles and triumphs, as well as the estrangements, losses, and redemptions at the heart of contemporary life.
The Convictions of Leonard McKinley
Released 2007
Nominated for the Re: Lit Award for Fiction. Young Leonard thinks his own moral failures caused his father’s heart attack and triggered an epileptic fit in his dog. As he launches himself through increasingly dangerous ethical trials, his thoughts grow darker and the stakes get higher in his constant struggle to be good. The winner of the 29th Annual International 3-Day Novel Contest is a coming-of-age gone awry; a funny, suspenseful and touching story of a young prairie boy who can’t reconcile his faith, his offbeat family, and his own teenage impulses. In Leonard McKinley, McLeod has drawn a complicated character—open, charming and heartbreakingly conflicted.
