Biography
Bradley Rand Smith is the author of several screenplays and teleplays including In a Workmanlike Manner for ABC, Stealing Thunder for Ed Pressman Films, Last Verdict for the Sci-Fi Channel, and The Rubicon for Wilshire Court. Bradley cowrote the screenplay to Blink with Academy Award–winning documentary director Guido Verweyen.
His television series Last Verdict was optioned by Pamela Rosenberg and Red Cedar Productions and developed earlier with Emmy-winning producer and director Rob Bowman.
His adaptation of Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun, directed by Tim Robbins, opened in Los Angeles to standing ovations and rave reviews: “thrilling, riveting, exultant” (Los Angeles Times Critics Choice). The London production opened at the Southwark Playhouse to high critical praise and was nominated for four London Offie Awards including Best Actor and Best Direction.
Other plays by Bradley include Exmass, a musical written with multiple Emmy winner and solo Broadway stand-up comic legend Lewis Black, with music and lyrics by Mark Houghtaling; Theatricals, a true story about Charles Dickens, the theatre, the Arctic, and cannibalism that was optioned and developed for Broadway; Mojave, opened at the West Bank Theatre in New York and the Odyssey Theatre and Mark Taper Too in Los Angeles; Nocturne, opened in Chicago and New York and selected for inclusion in the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theater Collection at the Los Angeles Public Library; The Names and the Places, a one-act play opened at the West Bank Theatere in New York City and later ran at Masquers Theater in Los Angeles; and his play with music Jazz Lives, featured renowned bassist John B. Williams and equally renowned singer Jessica Williams and ran at the Jazz Bakery and Marla’s Jazz Supper Club in Los Angeles.
In 2022, Bradley completed the adventure novella Shambhala: The Lost Expedition Journals Of Rick Kessler.
Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun awards, nominations: Off-Broadway Obie Award, three NYC Drama Desk nominations, four London Theatre Offie nominations, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Los Angeles Critics Choice, LA Weekly Theater Awards, Drama-Logue Awards.
