Brad Mays
Brad Mays is a Los Angeles based filmmaker whose recent motion picture The Watermelon [1]premiered at the 2008 San Diego Film Festival. [2] Written by Michael Hemmingson, The Watermelon was produced by Lorenda Starfelt at LightSong Films in North Hollywood.[3]
In 2006, Mays shot the documentary feature SING*ularity (2008) [4] which explores the training of singers at the OperaWorks[5] program in Southern California. Other films include his free-form adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae (2000) [6] and Stage Fright (1989). [7] The Audacity Of Democracy, [8] Mays' documentary feature about the PUMA (People United Means Action) movement and its attempts to stop Barak Obama's juggernaut presidential campaign, has been widely discussed in the media and is scheduled to be released in early 2009. [9]
Mays has also directed extensively for the stage. Several notable productions include an Off-Broadway production of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz's The Water Hen, which was praised by New York Times theatre critic Mark Matusek for "masterful comic direction" and videotaped by the Lincoln Center's Billy Rose Collection[10]; an original adaptation of Euripides' The Bacchae [11]which was nominated for three LA Weekly Theatre Awards (including Best Direction) in 1997[12] and also videotaped for the Lincoln Center's archive; and a controversial multi-media production of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange which was also nominated for Best Direction, Best Revival Production, and Best Actress by the 2004 LA Weekly Theatre Awards.[13] Vanessa Claire Smith won Best Actress for her portrayal of Alex, the psychopathic young protagonist.[14]
Notes and references
- ^ http://www.thewatermelon.net
- ^ IMDB: http://sdff.bside.com/2008/;jsessionid=C19317342A695C7E91BABCA5E8F18F2D
- ^ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945521/
- ^ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831324/
- ^ http://operaworks.com/index.php
- ^ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0154187/
- ^ IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161987/
- ^ http://www.nypost.com/seven/08212008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/hillarys_hellions_125391.htm
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/will-bower/my-history-of-puma-from-i_b_125878.html?page=7&show_comment_id=15631455#comment_15631455
- ^ Billy Rose collection NYPL: http://www.nypl.org/research/lpa/the/the.html
- ^ Critic Neal Weaver discusses onstage nudity: http://www.laweekly.com/2001-05-17/stage/grin-and-bare-it/
- ^ 1997 LA Weekly Theatre Awards: http://www.laweekly.com/1998-04-23/stage/monsters-galore/
- ^ LA Weekly Theatre Awards Nominations: http://www.laweekly.com/2004-02-12/stage/the-25th-annual-la-weekly-theater-award-nominees/
- ^ LA Weekly Theatre Awards: http://www.laweekly.com/2004-04-29/stage/jack-black-goes-to-hollywood-high/