Brad Schreiber

Brad Schreiber

Brad Schreiber is an American playwright, screenwriter, author, journalist, essayist, literary consultant and instructor, as well as actor and producer. His writing, in the fields of stage, television, books, magazines, newspapers and radio reflect not only eclecticism but also a willingness to experiment with form and content.

Biography

Born in New York City, Schreiber was impacted in elementary school in New City, New York by his fathers weekend art classes and his mothers drama classes. Schreibers father, Andrew, is a visual artist who in 1966 founded the Educationally Handicapped (E.H) program for high school students in San Mateo County (Northern California) that became Special Education in the United States. Schreibers mother, Mona, was an actress, writer, writing instructor as well as founder the Foster City Writers Contest. [ [http://www.geocities.com/fostercity_writers/history.html history ] ] She inspired Schreiber to found the international humor-writing contest, the Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Nonfiction in 2000.

The initial development of Schreibers writing came in Burlingame High School, when he was editor-in-chief of the "Burlingame B" newspaper and the "Phoenix" literary magazine. He also co-founded and wrote the constitution for the schools Pessimist Club, which required members arriving late to meetings to deliver impromptu speechesdenouncing a recent technological advancement or American hero, living or dead.”

Early career

Schreiber majored in Creative Writing and Theatre Arts at San Francisco State University, where his prose writing was influenced by studying poetry writing with Leonard Wolf. His interest in experimentation with form was expanded via two theatre-comedy groups in which he wrote and performed, the Burlingame Philharmonic Orchestra and Friends of the Ozone (1973-77), working on live TV and radio, in recording studios and in clubs and theatres throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 1980, he was among a group of writers who created the San Francisco PlaywrightsCenter. Schreibers interest in playwriting expanded with the production of his work at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and his interaction there with Sam Shepard (1981-82), as well as the support he received from the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc. and its founder, Edward Albee, in 1982. In 1984, Schreiber moved to Los Angeles and became one of the founders of Theatre of NOTE.

Literary consulting

Beginning in 1986, Schreiber worked on and off as a writer, producer and programming executive at Public Broadcasting Service affiliate KCET in Los Angeles. In 1992, he began a long association with director Jonathan Kaplan, as his director of development, analyzing scripts, books, stories and other source material submitted to the director as potential TV or film projects.

Christopher Vogler, author of the internationally renowned story structure book "", asked Schreiber in 1999 to take on his current position as Vice President of Storytech Literary Consulting. [ [http://www.absolutewrite.com/screenwriting/brad_schreiber.htm Brad Schreiber ] ] His consultations on client books and scripts incorporate not only Voglers ideas on "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, but Schreibers own experiences as writer, executive, producer and critic.

Books

Schreibers first book was "Weird Wonders and Bizarre Blunders: The Official Book of Ridiculous Records" (1989), a best-selling parody of "the Guinness Book of World Records". Schreiber managed to convince media sources including "The National Enquirer", NBC-TVs "Unsolved Mysteries" and the syndicated comic strip "Ripleys Believe It or Not" that "Weird Wonders" records, likeLongest TongueandWorst Plea for Money by a TV Evangelistwere real.

In 1998, book packager Don Ackland (using the "nom de plume" Tony Blanche) hired Schreiber to research, write and find photos for "Death in Paradise: An Illustrated History of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner". It was the only authorized history of the L.A. Coroner, the most technologically advanced in the world. "Death in Paradise" included the history and development of forensic science as well as the most psychologically, sociologically and forensically challenging cases of high profile murder, suicide and accidental death in Los Angeles County throughout the 20th century.

Influenced by "Death in Paradise", Schreiber created the cable TV nonfiction series "North Mission Road", which used cases from the L.A. Coroner and ran from 2003-2007 on Court TV (now truTV).

"What Are You Laughing At?: How to Write Funny Screenplays, Stories and More" (2001), an instructional book on humor writing, was the first to address both screenwriting and all forms of prose writing in the humorous form. Its most significant contributions to the academic study of the field were the sections13 Things Bad Screenwriters Commonly Doand11 Modes of Comedic Dialogue.”

In 2006, Schreiber published "Stop the Show!: A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater". The book was a compendium of true stories about both notable and unknown theatre artists, recounting generally humorous, although occasionally horrific stories about accidents during live theatre, primarily in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom, throughout the 20th century.

Journalism

Schreibers arts journalism has appeared in national publications like the "Los Angeles Times", "The Writer", "Daily Variety" and the web site the "Huffington Post". In 1995, he started writing a column entitledDevelopment Hellin the oldest weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, "Entertainment Today" (founded 1967).

In the beginning, the column compared recent film releases with the script versions on which he had consulted for Kaplan. His work for "Entertainment Today", now a web site, evolved into book, film, television, music and theatre arts journalism as well as interviews, essays and parody news stories on the arts and politics.

Other projects

In addition to the production of his stage plays, Schreibers interest in science fiction, particularly the themes of robotics and extraterrestrial intelligence, motivated him to adapt the work of notable science fiction authors for National Public Radio, including the storiesThe One Who Waitsby Ray Bradbury (1987, awarded by the National Audio Theatre Festivals), “Sales Pitchby Philip K. Dick (1989) andThe Proud Robotby Lewis Padgett (2000) which aired on the Science Fiction Writers of America award-winning series "2000X".

References

External links

[http://www.brashcyber.com Official website]
[http://www.thewritersjourney.com Storytech Literary Consulting]
[http://www.acriticalmoment.com A Critical Moment arts journalism archive]
[http://www.brashcyber.com/mona.htm Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction and Nonfiction]
[http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=bio&peopleID=1502 "Variety" stories by Brad Schreiber]
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-schreiber "Huffington Post" stories by Brad Schreiber]
[http://www.writersstore.com/article.php?articles_id=71513 Things Bad Screenwriters Commonly Doby Brad Schreiber]
[http://www.laweekly.com/stage/theater/the-power-of-the-fart/15335/ "L.A. Weekly" review of Stop the Show!]
[http://www.scriptmag.com/earticles/earticle.php?341Errol Morris: Writing the Documentary in Your Headby Brad Schreiber in "Script" Magazine]
[http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/668/1%20Schreiber.mp3 Interview with Brad Schreiber on Politics, Paranoia and Philip K. Dick, KUCI-FM, University of California, Irvine]


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