Biography – Bryan Cooperrider

In our modern world, the simple act of answering the question “what do you do?” can define our existence. For me, that question is not easily answered. Trained as an engineer at Stanford University, with a graduate degree in product design (also from Stanford), the path from there to here has been littered with numerous “jobs”- archaeologist, engineer, surveyor, designer, educator, musician, artist, handyman, and more…. But what gets me most excited is creating. The areas I have spent my adult life in have been as an educator and designer, professor, musician, artist, and in the world of improvisational theater. Through it all, I have been a teacher, and I suppose if I have to answer that question with one profession, I would have to choose that one, but really, teaching is simply another skillset in a world full of possibilities…

You can check out the links below for more info in each of these areas:

Music

Improv

Art Gallery

Design