Brad dickson
Brad Dickson is a television writer, a playwright, a screenwriter, a speaker and a former newspaper humor columnist. He (actually I – let’s be candid here, Brad Dickson is the person writing this bio) was a staff writer for “The Tonight Show” for almost fourteen years. My plays have been performed in New York City, Chicago, New Jersey and in my hometown of Omaha.
I have a degree in history from the University of Nebraska which helps a lot more with humor writing than you’d ever imagine. I also have an Emmy Award.
Another of my plays “The Irony of Life” recently had a staged public reading and my short play, the dark comedy “Phone Solicitor,” has been performed multiple times in New York and elsewhere and has received accolades and praise.
I have written many essays and short pieces that have been published in the Los Angeles Times and L.A. Times Magazine. My annual Thanksgiving piece “Thankful In L.A.” was a sarcastic holiday staple in the L.A. Times for many years. I still love writing essays and columns and a number of my newest columns and blogs can be found on this site by scrolling down or clicking up top.
My Plays
A group of New York actors and producers gather for the funeral of a faded theatrical acting icon. Who ever knew that death could be so darn funny?
A dark comedy about a family torn apart by the Covid-19 pandemic when a far right leaning family member refuses to go on a ventilator unless he gets the okay from then-President Trump. Pandemic mayhem at its finest.
A young man loses his job on Wall Street to artificial intelligence and must take a job setting appointments for a carpet cleaning company. Things start off funny and then turn dark, very dark.
Old Man is dying and bitter about it. He comes to question his life and outlook when a young prostitute moves in next door.
