Brad Tiemann

Brad Tiemann (born July 21, 1971) is an American filmmaker who produces, directs, and writes, writes feature films, short films, episodic television, and music videos.

Tiemann is known as the executive producer /director of the MTV series The Buried Life and MTV's animated comedy Greatest Party Story Ever. He wrote and produced the feature film, Circle, a dark thriller featuring Silas Weir Mitchell, Gail O'Grady and America Olivo. His most notable music video Is It Over by Thievery Corporation, starred Jason Thompson, Julie Marie Berman, and Lil Buck. His short film, Owl Farm, about the alter ego of Hunter S. Thompson, was accepted to the Cannes Film Festival and New York International Film Festival. Tiemann has produced and directed upwards of 200 episodes for A&E, Bravo, Discovery, MTV, Oxygen, OWN, TruTV, Red Bull, and Sony.

Born in Alton, Illinois, Tiemann graduated Alton High School in 1989 and went on to graduate with an Economics degree from University of Illinois in 1993. Tiemann was a stockbroker in Chicago from 1993 to 1998 and then opened his own firm in St. Louis from 1998 until 2001. Tiemann holds his Series 7, Series 63, Series 8, Series 24 brokerage licenses. During his brokerage years, Tiemann made a comedic film about a nuclear holocaust, Golden Years, which was taste enough for him to uproot from Illinois and move to Los Angeles to begin his career in the film industry.

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