Biography
Kevin Cloud Brechner has a diverse background in both the arts and sciences. He has over 2500 film, television, theatre, radio, live event, and music production credits, mostly as a director, writer, and/or producer. The genres include dramas, comedies, science fiction, live music concerts, talk shows, documentaries, pilots, fine arts and music videos, sports, radio dramas, live events, PSAs, commercials, and industrials.
He wrote 8 feature screenplays. "Turn of The Century," "Victim of Fate," "Yard Sale," "The Adventures of Kingpin and Gladhands," "Century 22: Birth of The BioBots," "Mabel Normand: The Little Girl You Will Never Forget," "Lone Prairie," and "The Planet Elpoep." He has two feature screenplays in preparation: "Thunder Rolling Up The Mountains," about the 1877 Nez Perce War with the United States of America, and a thriller "Top Drawer." He also wrote a short film screenplay "The Door." "The Planet Elpoep" he directed into an ultra low budget feature that debuted in 1988 along with his short feature "Time River."
He directed hundreds of single camera films and videos, multi-camera television programs, and many live shows. He directed the seven episode cult classic comedy si-fi talk show "Decoupage" and "Decoupage.2000!" starring Summer Caprice with a supporting cast including actors Karen Black ("Five Easy Pieces," "Dogtown," "The Great Gatsby"), Fred Willard ("Rosanne," "Fernwood Tonight"), Ann Magnuson ("The Hunger," "Desperately Seeking Susan"), Susan Tyrrell ("Cry-Baby," "Bad," "Forbidden Zone"), the bands L7 and Redd Kross, and a poetry video with Exene from the band X. He directed the 8 episodes of "Cult Movies TV" with guests including film stars Yvette Vickers ("Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"), Forrest J. Ackerman ("Famous Monsters of Filmland"), and James Keane ("Apocalypse Now").
He directed hundreds of talk shows and documentaries with celebrity guests from a wide range of disciplines including Walter Cronkite (CBS News anchor), actors Mel Gibson, George Lopez, Ossie Davis ("Evening Shade," ), Shelley Fabares from "Coach" and "The Donna Reed Show", Barry Gordon ("A Thousand Clowns," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "ER," Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Jack Benny Show," former SAG/AFTRA president), Bill Cosby, Gary Owens ("Laugh-In",) George Wendt ("Cheers"), Robert Guillaume ("Benson"), and NPR talk show host Larry Mantle.
In the field of music, he directed interviews, shot concert footage, and/or music videos with musicians Ice T, Ice Cube, Coolio, Wu Tang Clan, Salt-N-Pepa, The O'Jays, B.B. King, Big Mama Thornton, Mel Torme, The Yellow Jackets, George Duke, Teresa James and The Rhythm Tramps, Earl Klugh, Tom Paxton, Shuggie Otis, Big Joe Turner, Snotty Scotty and The Hankies, Leslie and The Nielsens, Ultra Violet Eye, Cliff Retallick, Bob James, Oscar Brown Jr., Herbie Lewis, Janis Ian, The Harlem String Quartet, principal concertmaster of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Martin Chalifour, pianist for the London Royal Philharmonic Howard Shelley, Bernie Pearl, Victor Banana, Johnny Angel, The Cottontails, Latino folk legend Lalo Guererro, Culture Clash, Cecilia ±, and has worked in other crew positions on music shows with Jefferson Starship, Buck Owens, The Indigo Girls, Black Lodge Singers, Claudia Lennear, The Chambers Brothers, Jackson Browne, Bo Diddley, Sugarhill Gang, Koko Taylor, James Taylor and Venice, Ozomatli, Merilee Rush and The Turnabouts, Burning Spear, Robby Krieger and John Densmore of The Doors, Reverend Horton Heat, Lightning Willie, Dick Dale and The Deltones, The Coasters, The Platters, Fishbone, Michelle Shocked, The Knack, Suzanne Vega, Shonen Knife, The Brothers Johnson, Clarence Clemons, The Bonedaddys, Delbert McClinton, and many others.
For several years, he was Production Manager of two Pasadena, California cable television stations, overseeing up to 600 shows per year. He has experience in radio as an announcer, disc jockey, news reporter, voice-over announcer, radio drama/comedy actor, and in station management. As an actor, he appeared in Orson Welles's last film "The Other Side of the Wind," He played the lead, Captain Bob, in the NPR radio series "Captain Bob and Buddy" for Kiloherts Radio, and the lead, Sherman Thompson, in "An American Dream" a student film. He played a silent mutant in the comedy sci-fi feature "The Low Budget Time Machine." In first grade, he was cast as The Troll in "Three Billy Goats Gruff." Afterward, he said, "It was typecasting."
Early in his career in the entertainment business, he worked in audience relations on "The New Dick Van Dyke Show" starring Dick Van Dyke and Hope Lange, and Hugh Downs' pilot "Foursome" starring Robert Culp, Janet Leigh, Ann Miller, Joanne Worley and Artie Johnson. He worked twice as a gopher for "ABC Wide World of Sports," was an announcer-engineer at KRAB-FM Seattle, a camera operator and audio mixer at KTVK-TV ABC Phoenix, a crew member and relief director at KAET-TV PBS Phoenix and crewmember and director at KWSU-TV PBS Pullman, WA, radio announcer, DJ, news reporter, actor, and special events director at the college radio station KUGR 690 Pullman, Washington and station manager, announcer, and news reporter and disc jockey at college radio station KASN-FM at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. At KWSU-TV Pullman, he wrote and directed live his first dramatic work, "Ice Cube," a 15-minute short.
In the 1990s, he was allowed to be an observering director on two shows at CBS Radford studios: the CBS television show "Evening Shade" (88 episodes) starring the ensemble cast of Burt Reynolds, Marilou Henner, Hal Holbrook, Ossie Davis, Charles Durning, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Jeter, Ann Wedgewood, Linda Gehringer, and "Hearts Afire" (32 episodes) starring John Ritter, Markie Post, Ed Asner, Billy Bob Thornton, Conchata Farrell, and Leslie Jordan. Burt Reynolds let him shadow him as director through one complete episode of "Evening Shade" from table read to the final music mix.
