Brandon Dirden is an Award-winning American actor, best known for playing Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in the successful Tony Award-winning Broadway production of All the Way (Neil Simon Theatre). Other Broadway credits include his debut as Tom/Taylor/Others in Prelude to a Kiss (American Airlines Theatre); Albert/Kevin in Clybourne Park (Walter Kerr Theatre); and Security Guard/Trader in Enron (Broadhurst Theatre); Off-Broadway, as Sly in Detroit ’67 (Public Theater); Captain Scott in Peter and the Starcatcher (N.Y. Theatre Workshop); Nate Edwards in The First Breeze of Summer (Peter Norton Space); and his Theatre World/OBIE Award-winning performance as Boy Willie in The Piano Lesson (Irene Diamond Stage); and regionally, as Eddie in A View From the Bridge (Seattle Repertory); and Mark Rothko in Red (Maltz Jupiter Theatre).

Television credits include Leon on Netflix’s The Get Down, Williams on TNT’s Public Morals, and Dennis Aderholt on FX’s The Americans.