Brian Moore

Brian Moore has been a Public Program Coordinator at the Historic New Orleans Collection since 2021.

His recent projects include “Masons, Mystery, and Mayhem a French Quarter Adventure”, “In Conversation With the Big Chiefs: Traditions of Mardi Gras Indians” (2022 New Orleans Press Club Award for Best in Digital Media), and the immersive in gallery performance “6 Blanches” (AASLH Award of Excellence winner).

In 2023 he collaborated a, international group of musicians and clowns to produce an immersive screening of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)”. Prior to his work at the Historic New Orleans Collection he was a teaching artist and theater maker.

In 2019 he collaborated with student at Xavier University New Orleans to create the original performance “Institutionally Aggravated” which was the featured performance at the Petit Jean Performance Festival.

He is a co-founder and former artistic director of The Hinterlands Performance Laboratory (Detroit, MI) where he created original theatrical works and collaborated with artists in Kosovo, China, India, and Sweden.

He also spent time as a circus clown with CircEsteem Chicago. He received his BA at Marquette University and hid MFA at Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theater.

Brian Moore is speaking at the Museums, Games & Play Summit:

Adults Only: An (a)Mason Race

Inspired by exhibitions on Masonic history, the Amazing Race, and the 2004 film National Treasure, “Mystery, Masons, and Mayhem: A French Quarter Adventure” featured 20 teams of racers navigating the French Quarter. Participants completed challenges, deciphered codes, interacted with historic figures, and explored historic buildings in a quest to “steal” the Louisiana Purchase. The program aimed to collaborate with several museums in the French Quarter to create an event that was unconventional yet historically grounded. The event engaged 100 local adults across five museums, two art galleries, and one Masonic venue.