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Brad Silberling (BA English) is a film and television director, producer, and writer. As a director, his first feature film credit, for producer Steven Spielberg, was the family classic Casper (1995). His other directing credits include the box-office hit City of Angels (1998) and the Academy Award-winning Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), starring Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep.  He also served as Director, Producer, and Writer for the critically acclaimed Moonlight Mile (2002), 10 Items or Less (2006), Land of the Lost (2009), and An Ordinary Man (2017).

His extensive television directing credits also include work on numerous Steven Bochco series including NYPD Blue and L.A. Law, among others. He has also served as the Director and Executive Producer of The CW’s Reign, Jane the Virgin, Dynasty, and Charmed, as well as NBC’s Heartbreaker. This year, Brad is also directing a new Amazon drama pilot, It’s Not Like That.