Brad Riddell played second tuba (out of two) for the Lloyd Memorial High School Marching Juggernauts, and won a prestigious computer science award his senior year for creating a giant “$” out of $s in DOS. Some time later, he graduated from the University of Kentucky after changing his major three times following screenings of Wall Street, Gross Anatomy, and The Dead Poets Society, respectively.
Brad worked professionally in film and video production for five years (while crashing expensive racing bicycles at high rates of speed in his spare time), before attending and graduating from the Master of Fine Arts program in screenwriting at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts.
Having written four produced screenplays (among many that remain less fortunate), Brad has worked on assignment for MTV, Paramount, and Universal, and has performed professional rewrites and book adaptations for independent producers.
A founding co-director of the not-for-profit film education company, The Kentucky Film Lab, Brad (a Bluegrass native, but no George Clooney) was appointed to the Kentucky Film Commission in 2009 by Governor Steve Beshear. (Oh, and he once ran with the Olympic torch. Seriously. They let anybody do it.).
Brad taught screenwriting at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts for six years, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Cinema & Screen Studies at SUNY Oswego. He also serves as a screenwriting instructor at Spalding University’s Brief-Residency MFA in Writing Program. Brad splits time between Syracuse and L.A., and loves to obsess over fantasy football, yoga, Halo, and Skyrim.
