Teaching/Lecturing

Brad has taught a wide variety of courses on prose, screenwriting, journalism, script development, humor writing, adapting material for TV and film, personal and spiritual development for writers and working effectively with literary agents.

Brad conducted tours for L.A.’s Esotouric company, based on his research on the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Manson murders. He has also taught crime labs at the California State University, Los Angeles Forensics department.

In addition to working with private clients, Brad has lectured and taught at the American Film Institute in Hollywood, Gotham Writers Workshop in New York, Surrey Writers Conference in Vancouver, Panamercian University in Mexico City, Pixar Animation in Northern California, UCLA Extension, USC, the Directors Guild in Hollywood and other locations.

Former students include:

Stephen Maitland-Lewis, novelist, Botticelli’s Bastard

Julie Dermansky, photojournalist, The Atlantic, NY Times, The Guardian

Will Bashor, historian, Marie Antoinette’s World, Marie Antoinette’s Head

Maggie Ginsburg, journalist, Madison magazine

Gregory Lee Renz, novelist, Beneath the Flames (Gold Medal, Fiction, International Book Awards)

Here are two short excerpts of a keynote Brad delivered during one of the three summers he taught Creative Writing at University of Wisconsin, Madison. The speech was called “The Role and Responsibility of the Writer,” broadcast on Wisconsin Public Television.

The first clip deals with “What Jimi Hendrix Taught Us About Success.” The second contains “The Lessons of a Young Boy’s Tears.”