Braddon (/ˈbræd-ənˈ/) Mendelson is an American playwright, director, and producer. He is the author of five full-length plays, including ''Rembrandt Perfected'' -- winner of the 2022 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival; ''Gallows Falls'', a ghost story set in Vermont; and ''Provenance'', the story of an 18th century French game table's journeys back through time. His short one-act plays, ''Old Friends'' and ''Juneteenth'', have been presented at festivals in New York City and Pelham, NY, respectively. He produced the 1998 cult classic film "
Boogie Boy," which was directed by Craig Hamann and executive produced by Academy Award winner
Roger Avary (both of whom were collaborators on
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, writer, producer, and actor. His films are characterized by stylized violence, extended dialogue, profanity, Black comedy, dark humor, Nonlinear narrative, non-lin ...
's first film "My Best Friend's Birthday").
As a music video producer, Mendelson worked with some of the top R&B and Rap artists of the late 1990s, including Xzibit, Outkast, Bizzy Bone, Mo Thugs and Ice Cube. As a consequence of producing Outkast's 1998 music video for their song "Rosa Parks," Mendelson in 2005 was added as a defendant to the
Rosa Parks v. LaFace Records lawsuit, but was subsequently dismissed from the case by the presiding judge.
Mendelson co-created the video poetry series, "
CineVerses" with poet/composer Jerry Danielsen. In 2010, he wrote and illustrated the children's book "Have You Seen the Tickle Bug?" and is the director and on-camera host for the children's YouTube show,
Read Me a Story with Brad Mendelson" He also publishes the award-winning satirical website TheSkunk.org.
Mendelson is also a
progressive
Progressive may refer to:
Politics
* Progressivism, a political philosophy in support of social reform
** Progressivism in the United States, the political philosophy in the American context
* Progressive realism, an American foreign policy par ...
political activist, who was elected as a delegate to the
California Democratic Party
The California Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of California. It is headquartered in Sacramento.
With 43.5% of the state's registered voters as of 2018, the Democratic Party has the highest number of r ...
in 2013 and 2015.
"LA Times , Winning the party endorsement is 'like trying to win an Iowa caucus' ... but in California"
/ref>
Published works
* Mendelson, Braddon (2010). ''Have You Seen the Tickle Bug?'', Cuckoo Concertos, 40 pages.
* Mendelson, Braddon, & Goodbody, J.B. (editor), et al. (2012). ''Net's Best Satire, Vol 1 indle Edition', News Roast, LLC, 175 pages. ASIN: B007T7PO6W
* Mendelson, Braddon (2021). ''Rembrandt Perfected'', Noisivision Studios, 107 pages.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
*
*
Have You Seen the Tickle Bug?
The Skunk: "Tasteless America Satire for the Ill-Informed"
* CineVerses: Poetry That Moves
Boogie Boy Blu-ray
Living people
Film producers from California
1961 births
{{US-film-producer-stub