Brett Colby

Brett has been a resident of Asbury Park, NJ since 2004.  He is served as President of the Arts Coalition of Asbury Park from 2007-2009 and as Director of Development for Algonquin  Arts Theatre in Manasquan, NJ until March 2011.  He currently works as Development Associate for The Arc of Monmouth.

As a performer, Brett has been singing professionally for over 10 years as an operatic character tenor, performing as far north as Alaska and as fast east as Poland.    Notable roles/engagements include Basilio/Curzio (Le Nozze di Figaro) with Green Mountain Opera Festival, Conneticut Grand Opera and Cedar Rapids Opera and Goro (Madama Butterfly) with Virginia Opera, El Paso Opera, Boheme Opera, Virginia Opera, Anchorage Opera, Opera Illinois, Midland Symphony and twice with Asbury Park's Metro Lyric Opera.  In his European debut, he joined Theater Görlitz (Germany), singing the roles of Nathanaël and The Four Servants (The Tales of Hoffmann), for which German papers commented that he "mastered his diverse roles vocally, theatrically, and with immaculate diction".  

Equally at home on musical theatre stages, Brett was most recently seen as The Narrator in ReVision Theatre's production of The Rocky Horror Show.  He has starred in and recorded albums for two original musicals in New York: Vivianna (a re-telling of La Traviata) and My Heinous Life, for which NYC papers said, “Brett’s commanding tenor voice and sure stage presence kept the nonsense moving briskly”, and was dubbed “sweet candy”. Other musical theatre roles to his credit are Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, a modernized version of The Pirates of Penzance at NYC's South Street Seaport, and two summers in Elmira, NY and Hartford, CT, portraying Young Mark Twain in Mark Twain: The Musical. He has been featured in the independent comedy film The War on the War on Drugs, and been heard frequently on Power 105.1 FM's "Dr. Dre in the Morning" Show, singing operatic renditions of popular Rap songs in a segment called "Hip-Hopera".

Brett continues to perform locally and throughout the country.  His regional accomplishments have been best summed up in Tom Chesek's recent article: http://upperwetside.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/a-glitter-attack-on-the-asbury-boards/