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- 2024 Finalist, AACT New Play Fest
- 2023 Finalist, Vintage Theatre’s Best New Play Festival — “Gallows Falls”
- 2023 Semi-Finalist, Soop to Nuts Short Play Festival — “Juneteenth”
- 2022 Winner, Best New Play, Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival — “Rembrandt Perfected”
- 2022 Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival, Playwriting Division — “Rembrandt Perfected”
- 2022 Finalist, Players Theatre Short Play Festival, New York — “Old Friends”
- 2009 Second Place, Humorfeed Annual Satire News Competition
- 1999 Warner Bros. Writers Workshop
- 1994 Honorable Mention, HBO New Writers Project
- 1994 Winner, America’s Best Annual Writing Competition, The Writers Foundation
About Braddon
Braddon Mendelson is an award-winning playwright and recipient of the “Best New Play” award for Rembrandt Perfected at the 2022 Long Beach New Works Festival. In 2023 he directed the world premiere of Rembrandt Perfected in Santa Clarita, California, where it played to sold-out houses and overwhelming acclaim. The play is a farcical take on a meeting between 19th-century inventors Samuel Morse and Louis Daguerre who devise a ridiculous scheme to identify the first human ever depicted in a photograph.
His musical, The WaterWay, recounts the rise of Los Angeles from small pueblo to renowned metropolis, owing to the delivery of water in the early 1900s. Other works include his comedy thriller, Gallows Falls (published by Next Stage Press), a ghost story set in Vermont, Resisted Living, and Minor Character.
Braddon began his career in the television industry, where he prompted the presenters on the Academy Award and Emmy Award telecasts. From there he transitioned to film world, where he produced a handful of independent feature films, including the cult classic Boogie Boy.
He also wrote for Sony Television International’s sitcom Ritas Welt (“Rita’s World”). Rated as the top comedy program in all of Germany, the series received the Adolf Grimme Preis. Other projeccts include a sketch comedy show he wrote and directed called, “The Riot Act.” In the 1990s, he produced music videos for a variety of top recording artists.
Braddon attended California State University, Northridge and the prestigious Warner Brothers Writers Workshop. He has one son and resides with his wife in Stevenson Ranch, California
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