Brian Wendell Morton
As a professional magician and sleight-of-hand artist for more than 40 years, Brian Wendell Morton has opened for international recording artist Leon Redbone, performed for Fortune 500 companies, at the Kennedy Center, and for 25 years he has amazed the more than 300,000 people each year that visit the Maryland Renaissance Festival, the top-grossing event of its kind in the country.
He has been an award-winning radio journalist at Baltimore’s WBAL-AM and Washington’s all-news station WTOP, a congressional press secretary, White House staffer, Baltimore City Paper political columnist, and the author of Political Animal: I’d Rather Have A Better Country published by Apprentice House books.
His various acting roles over the years have included Banjo in The Man Who Came To Dinner, Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls, and singing, juggling Cuban Watergate burglar Villo Gonzalez in Watergate, The Musical by Baltimore’s Do or Die Productions. He is thrilled to return to the boards as a member of the cast of Baltimore Docket.