Bruce Leddy

Bruce Leddy is a writer, director, and producer currently living in Los Angeles. His most recent work was directing Nickelodeon's new series based on the film School of Rock. Prior credits include five episodes of the ABC sitcom "Cougar Town" starring Courteney Cox, and the pilots for Disney's I Didn't Do It (TV Series), Nickelodeon's The Haunted Hathaways, and Comedy Central's "Midnight with Anthony Jeselnik." Other projects include directing "Important Things with Demetri Martin" for Comedy Central, the pilot and multiple episodes of Disney XD's Crash & Bernstein, and sketch segments for "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" His independent film "The Wedding Weekend" is available on Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes, after airing on The Sundance Channel.

After graduating from Williams College, Leddy moved to New York City where he started his career at MTV Networks as a writer for VH1. He quickly became a producer, and joined sister channel MTV where he rose to Senior Producer/Writer. After overseeing studio-based shows and VJ segments, Leddy developed and created series for the network. He created the in-depth artist profile series "MTV Rockumentary," produced the pilot and first 7 episodes of "MTV Unplugged," and wrote/directed/produced MTV's "Half Hour Comedy Hour."

After 7 yearw with MTV, Leddy went freelance and formed the production company BLIP Inc. (Bruce Leddy Independent Productions). He continued to work with MTV, producing, writing, and directing one-hour comedy specials financed by the movie studios as promotional vehicles for their films. Several of these starred Mike Myers including the "MTV Wayne's World" and "Wayne's World II Specials," and "Austin Powers' Electric Pussycat Swinger's Club," a show styled after the psychedelic '70's comedy series Laugh In, and Playboy After Dark. He also directed comedy specials for HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central, as well as a muppet holiday movie for Fox broadcast and Sony Home Video called "CinderElmo," starring Keri Russell, Oliver Platt, Kathy Najimy, and French Stewart.

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