Born in Dublin, Brían splits his time between his family, his day job in film and television and his passion for writing.
Having shown early promise by winning an MTV/Ericsson Short Script Award in 1999 and the BBC Tony Doyle Bursary for New Irish Writers in 2002, Brían turned his love of movies into a career. In over twenty years as a camera assistant, Brían has worked on television projects as varied as Game Of Thrones, Line Of Duty, Derry Girls and Black Mirror, done commercials for Calvin Klein and Vodafone (behind the camera) and made Hollywood blockbusters with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Jim Jarmusch, Martin McDonagh and Sir Ridley Scott.
Having laboured on screenplays through much of that time, Brían turned his attention to long-form prose. Wintour’s Game, the first in a three book teen series, will be published in August, 2024 with the second and third parts following in 2025 and 2026.
Brían is happy to be the latest in a long and distinguished line of published authors from his home town of Skerries, where he lives with his long-suffering wife, three daughters and their rescue dog, Joey.