BRAD SCHREIBER has written for all media.

He is the recipient of the 2022 William Randolph Hearst Award for Outstanding Service in Professional Journalism from the Hearst Journalism Awards Program, joining previous recipients Dan Rather and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Schreiber currently is co-writing a book about gangster rap, policing and race with Ron Stallworth, the author of the NY Times bestseller BLACK KLANSMAN, which was made into a film by Spike Lee and won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The book, tentatively entitled HIP-HOP COP, will be published by Legacy Lit/Hachette.

BOOKS

MUSIC IS POWER: Popular Songs, Social Justice and the Will to Change was published by Rutgers University Press. A 100 year history of socially conscious music in all genres, it has been nominated for the 2020 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Recorded Sound Research. REVOLUTION’S END: The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control and the Secret History of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA (Skyhorse) was honored by both the International Book Awards and the Independent Publisher Book Awards. BECOMING JIMI HENDRIX: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius (Da Capo/Perseus), written from the research of Steven Roby, was selected for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library in Cleveland. STOP THE SHOW!: A History of Insane Incidents and Absurd Accidents in the Theater (Da Capo) is a compendium of outrageous stories of disasters during live theater in the US and UK in the last 100 years. WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?: How to Write Humorous Screenplays, Stories and More (Allworth/Skyhorse) is an updated reprinting of the first how-to for both comedic scripts and prose, blurbed by Larry Gelbart (MASH, Tootsie) with a foreword by Christopher Vogler (THE WRITER’S JOURNEY).

Schreiber co-authored the autobiography of Firesign Theatre comedian Phil Proctor, WHERE’S MY FORTUNE COOKIE (Blurb). The audiobook version received three Communicator Awards and was also a winner at the New York Festivals. DEATH IN PARADISE: An Illustrated History of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner (Parallel Universe), written with Tony Blanche, has been published in both hard and soft cover, the only authorized history of the L.A. Coroner’s most infamous cases. WEIRD WONDERS AND BIZARRE BLUNDERS: The Official Book of Ridiculous Records (Simon and Schuster/Parallel Universe) is a parody of the Guinness Book which fooled the syndicated column for Ripley’s Believe It or Not into believing that a girl in Tubac, Arizona trained a spider to weave the word “HI” into its web.

Schreiber wrote the foreword to CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN WRITING (Facts on File) and has contributed writing exercises to NOW WRITE!: Screenwriting and NOW WRITE!: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror (Tarcher). His monologue “The Cost of Living” was published in ONE ON ONE: The Greatest Men’s Monologues for the 21st Century (Applause).

FILM

Schreiber wrote the animated feature film JUNGLE SHUFFLE, featuring the voices of Alicia Silverstone and Rob Schneider. Scripts he has sold include PYTHAGORAS, BOYS AT WAR, ROMANTECH, OUR ISLAND and THE FREAK. He also co-wrote with Stephen Feinberg and sold the feature THE COUCH, which was nominated for the inaugural Kingman Films Screenwriting Award. Schreiber was Director of Development for film and television director Jonathan Kaplan at Warner Hollywood Studios.

TV

Schreiber created the nonfiction series NORTH MISSION ROAD, based on his book DEATH IN PARADISE, which ran six seasons on Court TV. He wrote the pilots ROCK AND ROLL DETECTIVES and ROBOTICA for 21st Century L.A. Productions. At the Los Angeles PBS affiliate KCET, Schreiber was a writer-producer for On Air, a programming executive, wrote copy for the station’s pledge drives (referred to by staff as the “beg-a-thons”) and wrote and directed the short EXPLORE WITH ALAN MUIR.

JOURNALISM

Schreiber wrote Special Projects for Daily Variety and entertainment journalism and political commentary for Huffington Post, for which he was honored by the Los Angeles Press Club. He was a columnist for L.A. weekly Entertainment Today, where he was awarded a fellowship to the National Press Foundation in Washington, DC. Other entertainment journalism credits include the L.A. Times, AOL, The Writer magazine, Tin House, Back Stage, Script and Written By: The Journal of the Writers Guild of America. His essay “George Blanda Ate My Homework” was published in the CalArts journal Black Clock and reprinted in the Heyday Books anthology, New California Writing.

THEATRE

Schreiber was given a residency from the Edward Albee Foundation for his play RENDEZVOUS. It was produced, along with his plays PEARL (which he directed) and BUNNY VS. HUNTER at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, where he also was in the Playwrights Practicum with Sam Shepard. Schreiber co-founded the San Francisco Playwrights Center, where he had numerous play readings and acted in and directed the work of other playwrights. EXPRESS LANE was given an award and produced at the Stages Theatre Festival in Dallas. He also co-founded the Theatre of Note in Los Angeles, which produced both PEARL and SUNSHINE SERMONETTE. Schreiber also performed in and later directed Stephen Feinberg’s CAVEAT EMPTOR. His first play, LEAPS AND BOUNDARIES, was honored by the California Writers Club.

Schreiber was also Multimedia Consultant for the Fountain Theatre production of WHAT I HEARD ABOUT IRAQ. Adapted from Eliot Weinberger’s essay and directed by Simon Levy, the production ran six months in Hollywood and won Fringe First awards at the Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals.

In audio theatre, Schreiber won an award from the National Audio Theatre Festival for his adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s short story, THE ONE WHO WAITS, performed live at Stephens College in Missouri and broadcast on National Public Radio. Schreiber also adapted for NPR the Philip K. Dick story SALES PITCH. He is a member of the Playwrights Unit of the Ensemble Studio Theatre West and the Playwrights-Directors Unit of the Actors Studio in Los Angeles, which produced his play LET’S REVIEW WHAT WE’VE LEARNED at the Greenway Court Theatre.

Additionally, Schreiber adapted the story THE PROUD ROBOT by Lewis Padgett for the 2000X radio series on NPR, which won the Ray Bradbury Nebula Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for Best Dramatic Presentation. Schreiber’s theatre career began with his co-founding two comedy groups, the Burlingame Philharmonic Orchestra and Friends of the Ozone. They performed at theatres, clubs, colleges, on TV and radio throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and were the first (and last) comedy group to open for rock bands at Bill Graham’s Winterland Arena.

OTHER AUDIO

Schreiber was a producer, writer and voice over talent for the radio special THE PLANET X NEWS SERVICE on KCRW in Santa Monica, where he also wrote and voiced comedy for the weekly series THE COOL AND THE CRAZY. He was a comedy writer for the CBS Radio Network service Morning Circus, which provided comedy bits to CBS affiliates’ morning shows. Schreiber also produced episodes for the series LOOKING FOR THE LAUGHS on San Francisco NPR affiliate KALW. Schreiber co-taught Comedy Recording Techniques at College for Recording Arts/Golden State Recorders in San Francisco with Carson Taylor, former producer and engineer for comedian Stan Freberg. (The studio was an early career home for Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, The Grateful Dead, Sly Stone and The Beau Brummels.)