Julian Rad has been working in the entertainment and show industries for the last seventeen years.
Based in New York City, Julian first started his professional career working on feature films, garnering credits in 32 major motion pictures including Batman Forever, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Carlito's Way and Crimes and Misdemeanors. He produced The Four Corners of Nowhere which made it's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 1995 and would later kick off the newly minted Sundance Channel in 1997. His documentary film The Franklin Cover Up was awarded the 1997 Roy W. Dean Documentary Feature Film Award, the 1997 Independent Filmmaker Feature Documentary Award and was a finalist for the 1997 Laura Napor Vision in Film Award. Beyond narrative, Julian has worked on 243 commercials; 431 Music Videos including specialized long form projects such as A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica and Mariah Carey: Butterfly Unbound; 17 television series and on 43 live televised events including Woodstock '94 and '99. He was a Director for three seasons on BET's Live at the Knitting Factory; highlights include Ryuichi Sakamoto, Diamanda Galas, Yoko Ono, Low, and Ornette Coleman.
In the world of legit theater, Julian is the founder and producing director of Works Productions, who's production, his "play with music" adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, pulled in three 2004 Drama Desk nominations, including distinctions for Outstanding Play (writer and producer), Outstanding Director of a Play and Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, marking the first time in the 50 years of the Drama Desk award that an Off-Off Broadway production ever garnered nods in the Director or Play categories. Most recently, Works produced Love Jerry, a new musical at the 2008 New York Musical Theatre Festival. That production would end up the most celebrated presentation of the festival, winning 4 Best of Fest Awards, 2 Honorable Mentions and 3 Talkin' Broadway Citations including Best Musical. Amongst other legit distinctions, WORKS productions have been cited for the Obie Awards, the OOBR Awards and the Fringe First Awards.