WATCH: Brian Jordan Alvarez takes us back to school in timely new comedy series ‘English Teacher’
Brian Jordan Alvarez stan account.If you’ve been regularly reading Queerty over the past decade, chances are you’re already familiar with the out gay actor, comedian, and filmmaker.
It was nearly a decade ago Alvarez first started cracking us up with hilarious YouTube videos, and he’s since made a name for himself with screen roles in everything from killer doll slasher M3GAN to the delightfully named Estefan Gloria in the Will & Grace reboot.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.But as many BAJ fans will tell you, his crown jewel (thus far) has been the 2016 web series The Gay And Wondrous Life Of Caleb Gallo, an all-too-short five-episode comedy about love and friendship—all of which he wrote and directed—that had people asking, “When will he get a TV show of his own?”Well, that day has finally come!
Mark September 2 on your calendars, because it’s the day Brian Jordan Alvarez’s new series English Teacher debuts on FX.As the title might imply, Alvarez plays an Austin, TX-based English teacher named Evan who, “often finds himself at the intersection of the personal, professional and political aspects of working at a high school,” per the official synopsis.Yes, Evan is gay, and that certainly comes into play at his job in complicated ways—these are highly politicized, polarizing times, after all.
