The Movement You Need

BRENDAN HUNT is an award-winning actor, screenwriter and playwright living in Los Angeles, best known for co-creating the international hit Apple TV series Ted Lasso along with Jason Sudeikis, Joe Kelly and Bill Lawrence. He is also an ensemble member for the show, portraying Ted's trusty assistant Coach Beard. In its first two seasons, the show won consecutive Emmy Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series, a Peabody Award and many others.

A Chicago native and a veteran of sketch and improv comedy, Brendan’s first professional gig was as performer and writer with Amsterdam’s notorious comedy theater Boom Chicago, where he performed with Sudeikis, Seth Meyers, Jordan Peele, Ike Barinholtz, Amber Ruffin, Heather Anne Campbell, and many more. His solo show about that experience, Five Years In Amsterdam, debuted at IO West in Los Angeles, and went on to be performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, UCB LA, UCB NY, The Second City e.t.c., and the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival.

In theater, Brendan has twice been nominated for LA Theater’s Ovation Awards, winning one for Best Actor in a Musical. His two plays, Absolutely Filthy and The Art Couple, both had sold-out LA runs, with the former winning Best Show at both the Hollywood Fringe Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival. His newest solo work The Movement You Need just completed a sold-out run at the Soho Playhouse in Manhattan and is eyeing a Broadway debut.

TV and Film appearances include Bless This Mess, Community, Parks and Recreation, Key & Peele and the upcoming indie science fiction film Terrestrial. Brendan also voiced the character of ‘Gunther Melmac’ in Pixar’s latest animated film Elio.

His time in Amsterdam engendered in him a passion for the sport of football that would eventually prove to be life-changing, leading not only to Ted Lasso, but also finding him as co-host of Apple News' wildly successful World Cup podcast After the Whistle with NBC Sports' Rebecca Lowe.

Brendan is currently shooting Season 4 of Ted Lasso. 

Photo by Robyn Von Swank.

ASHLEY RODBRO is a Mexican-American director focused on new work, musicals and comedy. She is currently developing projects with Disney Theatrical and Lively McCabe and will direct a world premiere of a new Kristoffer Diaz play at The Warehouse Theater in 2026. She recently directed BriTanick: Dummy at the Soho Theatre in London and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has developed work at Ars Nova, Signature Theater Company, Edinburgh Fringe, CAP 21, Musical Theater Factory, 54 Below, Yale, the New York Fringe Festival, Marin Theater Company and more.

Previously, Ashley served as Worldwide Supervising Associate Director for the original production of Moulin Rouge!: The Musical, working alongside Alex Timbers from its early development through Broadway, setting new companies in Australia, London, Germany, and a National Tour, and leading the international directing team. She was also the Resident Director for Hamilton as a part of Tommy Kail’s directing team, opening the “And Peggy” company in Puerto Rico, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda, and maintaining the Resident Company in San Francisco. Her Associate work expands to comedy specials, working with Timbers on John Mulaney’s Kid Gorgeous at Radio City (Netflix), Oh, Hello on Broadway (Netflix), and Alex Edelman’s Just For Us (HBO).

During the COVID-19 crisis, Ashley founded Heredia Vision, creating film and digital content that puts women at the forefront of the creative process. In this role, she spearheaded major collaborations including the virtual special Broadway Does Mother’s Day and NYTW’s documentary and virtual event, 25 Years of RENT.

Her short films have screened at festivals nationwide, and her writing has received multiple awards and honors. She is a graduate of Yale College

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