Brad is excited to join the faculty at SUNY Oswego in the Department of English and Creative Writing, where he will teach courses in screenwriting and Cinema & Screen Studies.
His teaching career began as an adjunct professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts in 2005, and over the next six years he taught core-curriculum MFA and BFA courses to the school’s screenwriting students, while serving on curriculum, admission and thesis committees in the Writing Division.
In 2006, Brad joined Spalding University’s Brief-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing. For ten days, twice a year, Brad travels to Louisville, Kentucky to give lectures and lead screenwriting workshops, then continues working with students from home throughout the semester via email, Skype and telephone. Spalding has been named a top-ten low residency program by Poets & Writers.
Brad partnered with Kris Kimel, Arthur Rouse, and Mark Shepherd in 2003 to create The Kentucky Film Lab, a not-for-profit film education company serving to develop a community of filmmakers in the Bluegrass State. Since its inception, KFL has produced seven screenwriting and production workshops in Lexington and Louisville, teaching fundamental skills to over 600 aspiring filmmakers. KFL joined with the Bluegrass Community and Technical College to create a twelve-week survey course in filmmaking, and was honored to receive consecutive grants in 2008 and 2009 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Our students have gone on to attend film schools, work professionally in film and TV production, option screenplays, and produce their own shorts and feature films.
KFL guests have included writer Andrew Marlowe (Air Force One, Castle), cinematographer Victor Kemper (ASC Lifetime Achievement Award-Winner), TV Writer/Producer Aaron Rahsaan Thomas (Friday Night Lights, CSI:NY), feature writer/Chair of USC’s Screenwriting Division Jack Epps, Jr. (Top Gun), actor/director Domenica Scorcese, game designer Jason Shankel (Spore), and producer Jon Landau (Avatar, Titanic).
