Jim Brochu
Jim Brochu | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 16, 1946 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | St. Francis College |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, writer, playwright, director |
| Partner | Steve Schalchlin (1985–present) |
Jim Brochu (born August 16, 1946) is an American actor, writer, director, and playwright. Brochu wrote and starred Off-Broadway in Zero Hour, a one-person play about the life and career of actor and comedian Zero Mostel, from 2009–2010. For this performance, he won the Drama Desk[1] award for Outstanding Solo Performance.
Biography
Brochu was born in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Carnegie-Mellon University and received his B.A. from St. Francis College. His stage debut was in a production of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. In 2005, he was nominated by the Los Angeles Ovation Awards as Best Actor in a Musical for The Big Voice, an honor he won from both the Palm Springs Desert Star Awards and the Valley Theatre League ADA Awards. In 2007 and 2008, he and Steve Schalchlin co-wrote the musical The Big Voice: God or Merman,[2][3] which Brochu starred in Off-Broadway. Honor Moore of the New York Times rated it highly.[4] The Big Voice: God or Merman? was also given the Ovation Award as Best Musical, presented to Brochu and Schalchlin by Jerry Herman.
In June and November of 2018, Brochu revived his play Zero Hour for a limited time at the Theatre at Saint Clement’s in New York City[5] and in The Actors’ Temple in Midtown Manhattan.[6]
Brochu was a friend of Lucille Ball and is the author of her unauthorized biography, titled Lucy in the Afternoon, and in this capacity, appeared on an episode of MythBusters.
Selected filmography
| Film | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Law & Order | TV movie | 1976 |
| Kojak | TV series | |
| Sirota's Court | TV series | |
| All My Children | TV series | 1985 |
| Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter | TV movie | 1991 |
| Cheers | TV series | |
| Mann & Machine | TV series | 1992 |
| Wings | TV series | 1993 |
| Mother of the Bride | TV movie | |
| Reasonable Doubts | TV series | |
| Bram & Alice | TV series | 2002 |
References
- ^ Gans, Andrew."Red, Memphis, Bridge, Fences and La Cage Win Drama Desk Awards" Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine playbill.com, May 23, 2010
- ^ "A Conversation"San Francisco Sentinel, August 14, 2007
- ^ "'The Big Voice' listing thebigvoice.com, retrieved May 24, 2010
- ^ Moore, Honor (December 2, 2006). "A Musical Attempt to Share Some Secrets of True Love". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ "Jim Brochu Returns as Zero Mostel In Zero Hour - Times Square Chronicles". t2conline.com. May 6, 2017. Retrieved September 7, 2023.
- ^ Soltes, John (November 4, 2018). "INTERVIEW: Zero Mostel, through Jim Brochu's eyes". Hollywood Soapbox. Retrieved September 7, 2023.