Breylyn Brown was brought up in Houston, Texas, with a piece of her soul in Plaquemine, Louisiana. In this upbringing, she observed the most captivating moments between humans that stirred her imagination and kept her constantly daydreaming. Through this, she developed a love of story-telling that gave her dreams a stage to live in. Breylyn wants to tempt through her storytelling the shared and individual nostalgia of all of the intersecting identities she has that calls on the viewer to re-frame their own notion of what identity is.
Breylyn is interested in both film and staged works as a director, actor, and writer. As a director, Breylyn's most recent works include Dominique Morriseau’s "Night Vision," Robin Rothstein’s "Libretto" and a short conceptual film to Moses Sumney’s "Polly" that she also shot and edited herself. Breylyn also recently worked as an intimacy coordinator on a UNCSA fourth-year film "Braid Crowns" written by Camryn Chestnut and directed by Sanath Hedge. This semester, Breylyn will be directing an excerpt from Lyn Nottage’s "Fabulation, or the Re-education of Undine," in the UNCSA Fall Director’s Festival.