Dennis Trainor Jr. is a versatile theater artist, educator, and filmmaker with over two decades of experience in acting, directing, and teaching. He currently serves as an Associate Professor of Theater at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he teaches acting, mentors students, and contributes to shaping the next generation of theater artists.

Dennis holds an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater and a BA in Liberal Arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His professional career spans regional and international stages, with notable acting credits including The Inheritance at SpeakEasy Stage, How I Learned to Drive with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and his critically acclaimed solo performance Manifest Destiny’s Child at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Additionally, he has appeared at New Rep, Gloucester Stage, Company One, Lyric Stage, Soho Rep, The Flea, The Kraine, and others.

As a playwright, his plays include Manifest Destiny's Child (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Plug, ("A clever, infectious, caffeinated jolt" – Village Voice) and I Coulda Been A Kennedy ("an ambitious yawp of a play, surreal and boisterous and full of political choler." – Time Out NY).

In New York, Trainor was the founding co-artistic director of the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, where he worked as a producer, actor, director, and writer. He was also was part of the first cohort of “the Bats,” an Obie Award-winning acting company in residence at the Flea Theater.

Theatrical directing in credits include Dance Nation,  Antigone or And Still She Must Rise Up (Boston Conservatory), The Trojan Women: A Love Story (Stonehill College), Plug, and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Rude Mechanicals).

As a filmmaker, his on-the-ground documentary on the Occupy movement, American Autumn: an Occudoc garnered critical acclaim ("Calm, and smart, offsetting its stridency with humor" – New York Times, "Impresses where many docs disappoint" – Variety). He was the creator, host, and producer of two nationally syndicated T.V. programs: Acronym T.V.and The Resistance Report ("Cuts through the crap, tells the truth and can even make you laugh"- HuffPost Live).

Trainor is a member of The Dramatists Guild and an Actors' Equity Association member.