They would put up a show for kids every spring. While this impressive resume might make another young actor feel confident about his future, Brener operates on a baseline state of panic. He lived most of his youth in Houston, Texas. “I knew I wanted to go to school and do theater and arts so I really wanted to go to Yale, but Yale really didn’t want me to go to Yale, so I ended up at Harvard and was very unsure about coming, but I’ve been surprised multiple times at how much there is to do,” he says. “One of the hardest things to do, especially with acting, is to always be doing something. Recent college graduates struggling to “make it” — whether they live in Tinseltown or tech central, whether they’re aspiring stars or start-ups — face many of the same internal challenges. Likewise, we’ll be on our couches tonight to watch Brener in the season finale of SILICON VALLEY, which airs on HBO at 7pm PT / 10pm ET. Together, they are working on several comedy projects, including a television pilot and a female-centric feature. “You know, life, liberty, the pursuit of comedy...I think really harkening back to Dionysian values is where my heart is.” For Brener, exploring theater at Harvard has meant involvement with some of the college’s oldest groups, Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the improvisational group On Thin Ice (OTI). I expect major leaps and bounds to come in years. Before GLORY DAZE, Brener was in the running for the lead part in an exciting pilot. Now, Brener plays one of the main characters on Mike Judge’s SILICON VALLEY, which has been very positively received by critics and the public alike. He is actually what the others call “a dork”, and this team is considered to be a “failure” team. “I hate to say that I’m a pessimist because I’m very blessed and fortunate. It’s so exciting and I’m so grateful to have tricked them into hiring me to be a part of it,” he says. Explore Josh Brener's biography, personal life, family and real age. In an interview for The Harvard Crimson, Josh Brener said that he knows that after college he will be unemployed. As TV series actor, he plays Kyle in Maron (2013-present) and Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti, in the HBO series Silicon Valley (2014-present). Josh Brener was born on 1 October 1984, in Houston, Texas, USA. Between 2011 and 2013 he acted as Dale, in the world renowned TV show, The Big Bang Theory.
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Brener previously collaborated with his brother on a 2012 short that Marc wrote and directed called SAY IT AIN’T SOLO. “Two [of Marc’s friends] happened to be agents, and I would ask them for advice and annoy them endlessly,” says Brener. Josh Brener laughs when asked about his similarities to his character Big Head from HBO’s “Silicon Valley.” He thinks about it—because maybe they are more alike than he would like to believe. Regardless, I’m going to be hungry...I don’t know how food stamps work, but I’ll figure that out, I think.” For Brener, unemployment will mean the chance to write or act for TV or theater, which will be a continuation of what he does on campus. He is an actor... Born: October 1, 1984
75% The following year, Josh had a brief role in a short titled 'Song in a Convenience Store.' That’s my advice, having followed none of it ever because I do nothing. It was produced in 2013 by Vince Vaughn and Shawn Levy in collaboration with some big-players from the movie production companies: Regency Enterprises, 21 Laps Entertainment, Wild West Picture Show Productions and TSG Entertainment. The story is about two former salesmen, Billy McMahon (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Campbell (Owen Wilson) that got an internship opportunity at Google. “That’s how those things start: a few kids meeting over a pot of hasty pudding in 1795,” he says. There’s not a shred of In addition to sustaining glamorous on-set injuries, Brener’s genius is recognizing the importance of completely and actively engaging in one’s work at all times. Lyle (Josh Brener) is their manager.
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Josh Brener's affably geeky persona led the film and television actor to a certain type of comic role. It is a huge art form. Josh continues to work closely with people who are very near and dear to him, including his fiancée Meghan Falcone, whom he met at an improv class in Los Angeles six years ago. Of course, the movie is about the trouble these two interns will get into, but also the unusual ways of fixing things. “I think the OFA does a good job helping students do the arts that they want to do.” But ultimately, he says, the continued success of art on campus depends on the initiative of students. In an interview for The Harvard Crimson, Josh Brener said that he knows that after college he will be unemployed. At Harvard, Brener took advantage of all opportunities to act, write, and perform improv. He attended Harvard University and he was since then known about his writing and acting skills. RUMPERBUTTS is written by his brother, Marc Brener, and follows a married, indie band duo who are miserable in their successful but soul-crushing gig on a children’s show. He even aspired to attend Yale for its prestigious theater program. During 2010 and 2011 he played Zack Miller, in the TV show Glory Daze. “And ten minutes later, I realized that I had broken my finger. “I think that their origins as an improvisational and a sort of a creative engine is really what has driven me with that group, and certainly the funniest people on campus come out of OTI,” he says. The art has really been sucked out of it, no pun intended.”. Another activity that he used to do while college is working with Sunken Gardens Children’s Theatre. I was lucky to fall in with the Pudding.”, Asked whether he’d like to return to theater work, Brener quips, “Mostly I just want to do another Pudding show, but as many times as I audition, they refuse to have me back.”, Brener selected English as his concentration so that he could take classes at the American Repertory Theatre for credit, and he completed a creative thesis that he calls a “terrible, terrible, terrible play — but it was better than writing a real thesis that required lots of research and citations.”, After graduating from Harvard, Brener and a couple friends hopped into his 1992 Camry and drove cross-country to Los Angeles, where, like many aspiring creatives, he first lived in a shabby apartment with a his brother Marc and another roommate. It’s very easy to fall into waiting for the phone to ring, waiting for someone to give you an audition,” admits Brener. But I am a bit of a pessimist in that I feel like I’m starting from scratch every single time,” he says of landing the next acting gig, “which I know is not true. “And I said, ‘Yeah, I can imagine what that might feel like.’”. When a knee injury prevented him from playing Little League baseball during the season, Brener decided to join the school play to hang out with his sixth-grade girlfriend.