Brad Raider is a Los Angeles based actor, filmmaker (director, producer, writer, editor), and theatre co-founder.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Raider graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where he trained at the Circle in the Square Theatre School, the Experimental Theatre Wing, and with Anne Bogart's SITI Company. He was also awarded scholarships to the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts and to the Jewish Federation's Directing Master Class in Tel Aviv.
His feature film directorial debut, Kensho at the Bedfellow (in which he also stars), is an existential drama about a guy in NYC searching for fulfillment in all the wrong places and was released in 2017. In addition to two best feature film awards at six festivals, Kensho was one of only a handful of films worldwide asked to participate in the first Conscious Film Convergence at the Illuminate Film Festival and most recently screened at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC as the inaugural film of their Brainwave: Perception Series. The film also garnered Raider a spot in Shoot Online's 2018 New Director Showcase at the Director's Guild of America.
A veteran of over 50 stage productions including a one-man-show about the life and films of Frank Capra and the title role in the 400th year anniversary production of Henry V, he now serves as co-artistic director of Red Dog Squadron, a Los Angeles based theatre company he founded with fellow NYU alum James Roday.
His television credits include starring roles on the short-lived series The Trouble with Normal and That Was Then, both for ABC, several network pilots, and guest-starring roles on High Potential, Santa Clarita Diet, FlashForward, Better Off Ted, Psych, Jericho, and CSI:NY, to name a few. He was seen as the title role in the cable movie Spring Break Lawyer, and starred in the independent features Greener Mountains and Americanizing Shelley.
Raider also teaches the subtle art and science of meditation through MDT8, a company he founded in 2012.
