Brian von Rueden has enjoyed success in the Chicago musical theatre scene, having performed in Jeff-recommended productions of Sondheim's A Little Night Music and Children of Eden with Porchlight Musical Theatre. He also played El Gallo in a benefit performance of the perennial favorite The Fantasticks with the Three-Sided Players. On the stage, he has also portrayed Orlando in Shakespeare's As You Like It, the Tutor in Euripedes' Medea, Antonio in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and The Gentleman in Eugene O'Neill's Thirst. In addition, his operatic portrayals range from the haughty Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro to the licentious Tarquinius in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia.