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About Bradford
I’m a highly experienced Feature and TV Writer. My elevated Holiday Rom-Com, MERRILY ALL THE WAY, is now in Pre-Production, with Producers Kristen Lucas, Jim Langlois, and Tim Misenheimer of Collab Content Entertainment. Going into production December 2024.
My life is a satirical comedy driven by my favorite phrase: “What could possibly go wrong?” Serendipity steps in when things do go wrong and always leads me to the thing I should’ve been headed toward in the first place. My many misadventures & awkward exploits led me to discover my brand: Heartfelt Dramedy, for Series & Features, about misfits struggling to become the heroes of their own lives.
Growing-up just outside of Philadelphia, I needed my wild imagination to create fun & mayhem. It got me into a lot of trouble though, like that time, when I was 10 and I stole my parents' car to take my little sister for ice-cream. (we made it as far as the neighbor’s front yard); or when I launched myself down a steep, busy street in a plywood go-cart with no brakes; or, after setting out on my own at 17, my two summers as an amateur stock car driver.
At The Minneapolis College of Art & Design. I worked three part-time jobs to pay for school, graduating with a double-major in Film Production and Graphic Design.
I went to work for Twin Cities PBS and won a Regional Emmy for Production Design plus 3 Broadcast Design Awards.
Started in features as the Lead Graphic Designer for Alan Rudolph's, EQUINOX, starring Matthew Modine, then got the chance to be the Lead Graphic Designer for Production Designer, Ruth Ammon, (STATION ELEVEN) on Lona William's SUGAR & SPICE and DROP DEAD GORGEOUS.
I lucked into working with Production Designer, Rick Heinrichs, as the Lead Graphic Designer for Joel & Ethan Coen’s FARGO and THE BIG LEBOWSKI. Afterwards, Rick invited me to work with Tim Burton on SUPERMAN LIVES (unfinished). I designed three key “S” logos. Two of which are still in use today.
I set my sights on screenwriting, trained with Blake Snyder and then Jen Grisanti and was short-listed in both the NBC and ABC TV Writers Showcases. I’m a three-time Semi-Finalist in the ScreenCraft TV Pilot Competition. A two-time Top-5 Winner for Best Screenplay at Screamfest LA. Two time Second-Rounder at Austin Film Festival. A Top Ten Finalist at Cinestory.
2023: SOLARPUNKS VS. THE ANNIHILATION ULTIMATUM, my grounded Sci-Fi Pilot, became a Semifinalist in the Stage 32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Contest and landed on Coverfly’s Red List for reaching the Top 3% of all Sci-Fi scripts (and remains in the Top 3%).
My Dramedy TV Pilot, I’M FINE... AND OTHER LIES (co-created with the incredible Lee Wilcox) was a 2021 Top Ten Finalist in Roadmap Writers Top Tier Competition.
3 DARING NOBODIES, my Coming-of-Age True Story Sports Action feature script became Amazon Studios Best Screenplay Competition Semi-Finalist.
My Horror Family-Action feature, TUTTLESON'S GHOSTS: SEAL OF ELYSIUM, was a 2nd Place Winner, Screamfest LA (2005), (as SERAPHIM).
Unique traits: Smart-ass by day, introvert by night. Or maybe it's the other way around
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WATCH-OUT WORLD - A Family Ensemble Dramedy. Music ⋄ Family When fierce teenage singer-songwriter, Ally Bailey, leads her all-girl band to ditch school and crash a major audition in the city, her one-hit-wonder father arrives in time to see them prove they've got the heart & talent to go further than he ever could. Comps - Imagine THE ACES as high school seniors, with the fierce determination to share their music with the world.
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3 DARING NOBODIES - Inspired by the True Story Budget: $10M - $30M | Historical ⋄ Action 1974. Twin Falls, Idaho. Three aimless high-schoolers share the wildest summer of their lives working behind-the-scenes of Evel Knievel's death-defying Skycycle Jump across the Snake River Canyon. On the night before the big jump these nobodies become the only ones who can prevent a Hell's Angels gang from destroying Knievel’s Skycycle.
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SPECTER VISION (Everything You'll See, Sees You) - Supernatural Action Budget: $10M - $30M | Horror ⋄ Action A Philly Paramedic's questionable plan to help two long-lost ghost kids into the afterlife backfires and leads them into the grip of a Demon who needs their souls to unleash the apocalypse. Comps: GHOSTBUSTERS meets THE FRIGHTENERS
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SOLARPUNKS VS. THE ANNIHILATION ULTIMATUM - A Present Day Sci-Fi Pilot. Budget: $1M - $5M | Sci-fi ⋄ Action A fugitive group of hybrid-humans learn they were covertly bioengineered by a rogue extraterrestrial AI to guide humanity to save itself from the countdown to annihilation started by an alliance of worlds intent on protecting Earth, from us. (Pitch Deck available)
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SARAH VS. THE NUTCRACKER - An Elevated Fairytale Christmas Rom-Com Budget: $5M - $10M | Comedy Sarah is a busy holiday bookshop owner whose wish to meet her “meant-to-be-love” unexpectedly brings her Nutcracker to life. Stuck with him until Christmas Eve, the holiday traditions Sarah attempts to share with him go comically wrong, leading them into love and the hope that this Christmas Wish never ends.
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I’M FINE... AND OTHER LIES - A Dramedy About Being Thrown Under the Bus. Drama ⋄ Comedy Psychiatrist, Beth Keene has no more f@#ks to give. When an incident with an entitled ex-patient results in Beth’s unjust suspension, she’s required to serve six months as a Crisis Hotline Operator where she must work with an ensemble of well-meaning misfits to save unhinged callers.
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MERRILY ALL THE WAY - An out-of-the-box Christmas Romantic Comedy Budget: $5M - $10M | Romance ⋄ Comedy In pre-production for 2025 When a business-driven Christmas holiday collides with romantic destiny, Children’s Author Melody, Handyman Vlogger Josh, and their Type-A Agents find themselves on separate yet converging road-trip adventures into love. Comps: SOMETHING FROM TIFFANY'S (2023) meets PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES.
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